Ever wonder why the extreme lack of respect for the United States is prevalent throughout the world? This governments foreign policy is like a big snake with a forked tongue. Countries can’t believe anything that comes out of Washington. Under George “the King” Bush, Foreign Policy was a complete disaster and now, it seems that Vice-President Joe Biden, is continuing the same forked tongue approach.
Last year, the country called Georgia, which at one time was part of the former U.S.S.R., attacked two provinces that was comprised mostly those of Russian descent and Russia entered into the situation to repel the Georgians. Britain (the best hand puppet the U.S. has ever had), and the United States screamed foul…Russia had no right…Russia being mean…violation of rights…you name it and George “the cowboy” Bush, inflamed the situation. Want to know why he was so incensed? Bush was intending to place “defensive” missles in Georgia in order to protect Europe from any potential missles launched by Iran. Trust me, Russia is not buying it.
Now, flash to Israel, a country that has plenty of nuclear weapons AND defensive missles AND is in the flight path and fully capable of intercepting any missles launched by Iran towards Europe. Israel is such a close ally, that, instead of being in OUR pocket, the U.S. is in theirs.
Enter V.P. Biden: Joe says that Israel “has the right to defend itself and make its own decisions on national security”. So, Israel has this right, but Russia don’t? Biden further stated, “Israel can determine for itself – it’s a sovereign nation – what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else”. Israel has the blessing of the U.S. to level Iran and do a “pre-emptive” type of thing,anywhere and to whomever, yet Russia is lambasted for stopping missle launchers from taking up residence on their border. The United States would be very, VERY upset if Russia placed missles in Mexico…oh, wait…they did that in Cuba once, and the reaction by Kennedy was what? We didn’t like their missles in our backyard and they don’t want our missles in their backyard.
You can’t gain and maintain world respect when you have a double standard. The U.S. shouldn’t treat Columbia any different that Romania. It is wrong to force country’s into capitalism as it is to force communism on them. If our goal is to eradicate dictators from the world, which seemed to be the case in Iraq< then we have a country right off our coast. There are many dictators in Africa that we should force into capitalism if that is our Foreign Policy. However, that isn’t our policy…and Russia knows it and so does Israel…and so does most of the world.
