[TheRealThing]

I remember not so long ago the US dictated terms in the Middle East while Russia assumed a more subservient role. Speaking of the devil, Russia couldn't eek out a win in Afghanistan while we go in there and totally cake walk them in a dazzling display of military superiority. Same thing in Iraq. Saddam had just been dragged from the bowels of a spider hole after a 21 day rampage orchestrated by the US military and said; "I am Saddam Hussein president of Iraq and I am ready to negotiate" to which the American soldier said, "President George W Bush sends his greetings". You can say what you want to about W. He never diminished the office of the presidency, and walked out of there with his head up. The jewel like image of the US and it's military totally in tact, even after a 3 trillion dollar loss of US treasure at the hand of Bin Laden. Nobody was laughing a sitting US president to scorn then.

Americans don't have any concept of military defeat. All we know is glory and honor and global respect, having defeated every foe we have faced and always for honorable and justifiable causes. And yet, under this administration we find ourselves in the unenviable position of following the dictates of Vladimir Putin. Seizing the opportunity now Russian is the major player in the Middle East and we are the subservient one? And to rub salt in the wound, there are a number of Russian terms to which we Americans must capitulate if we expect Putin to bail us out over there. :please: All of this la-la liberal pandering to the various groups of thugs and terrorists of the Middle East has gotten the US nothing but disrespect. Heck, even Ethiopia told us to take a hike.

Don't get me wrong, if it were possible to 'talk' one's self to greatness Barack would be right there at the top. But, like I've always heard, talk is cheap and that's all he does. We have crawfished our way back from a dominate role on the world stage, almost all the way behind Valerie Jarrett's skirts, LOL. No matter what liberal sits the captain's chair, the results would have been the same. As I have pointed out on here before, from the namby-pamby weak willed attempt at foreign policy by the Carter administration, to the laughable Nancy Pelosi negotiated resolution of the long standing Middle East conflict between Israel and her Palestinian nemesis Yasser Arafat. Which, was (in her mind only) negotiated under her direction soon after her ascension to the speakership, to the nearly irretrievably broken US foreign policy and the trail of disaster that has beset our national image, it has been failure after failure.

Liberals cannot govern effectively because they live in denial to a fault. You're never going to tell them that they can't negotiate their way through any disaster. To them it's global WMCA psychology. In their mind one must go up to a Saddam, or a Mohammed Morsi, or a Assad and be sincere and nicey nicey, being especially careful not to insult them on a social level and things will be fine. When we do that we get insurgency tsunamis in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and now Syria. Backing up has never quelled the bully's zeal and it never will. There's a name for negotiating from a position of weakness and it's called pacifism and never ever has it worked in the history of this planet.