OBAMA'S THREE OBJECTIVES

United States Congress and the America people in a shameful act put Vladimir Putin front and center on the worlds stage. In effect, they have helped to reestablish Syria’s ally, Russia, as a credible world player tipping the game in favor of Syria. Congress stabs Obama in the back for doing the right thing. After demanding that Obama come to Congress, Senators are saying that he should never have come to them; he should have bombed Syria. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) interview this morning by Chuck Todd is a case in point. Obama is a big boy; morally and in diplomatic skill, he is so far above them yet they seem to feel no shame in what they say or do.

Obama foreign policy has as a clear objective, which is to prevent Syria president al Assad from committing genocide.  It also involves keeping al Assad in power, in an unstable balance, to prevent radical Islamic factions from reestablishing a caliphate in Syria to give the opposition time to coalesce into an identifiable pro-democratic majority—not the one McCain and Graham identified on their over night visit.

The source of the evil in the Middle East is caliphate governments, who want to dominate Syria. The much-heralded “Arab Spring” is all about getting rid of these kinds of governments across the region and replacing them with democracies. The irony is that it is the people and not the United States who is “overthrowing” these “God” governments. The people are demanding a say in how they are ruled. It is not McCain or the neo-cons they want as rulers—a coalition provisional administrator such as L. Paul Bremer and certainly not a death squad John Negroponte as a dictatorial Ambassador. As we know from what is happening in Egypt, it is not an easy transition to make.   

A history of government overthrows plagues our past. Previous presidents: Truman-Korea; Johnson-Vietnam; and Bush-Iraq have poisoned the credibility of our current and future presidents. Yet, the fact remains that the people in this country believe we, as the strongest nation in the world, must stand as a moral paragon of fairness, equality, honesty, and goodness; President Barrack Obama stands with the people. Now he is faced with standing shoulder to shoulder with a former KGB Officer, a man accused of assassinations and clandestine operations, as a key player in extremely delicate diplomatic negotiations. He is faced with trying to negotiate a United Nations treaty with  a ruthless dictator, who represents a small religious sect involve in regional political  turmoil knowing that the Republican party accuses the UN of usurping our sovereignty. He has to face radical progressives such as +Chris Hayes and +Rachel Maddow for not working fast enough—not using some kind of magic they find so easy to pull out of the thin air. As a progressive, our president will refrain as much as is possible from using brute force, as some would like him to do; however, I feel he will overcome even if on the other side of the moon walk he ends up with a peaked nose and wavy gray hair. 

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