Ed Morrissey and Fausta are both not getting why the President is taking the side of Argentina (thus sharing a podium with that noted beacon of freedom, tolerance, and capitalism known as Venezuela) in its perennial attempts to get the United Kingdom to give up the Falkland Islands. It’s not just that we’re signed on to the OAS declaration demanding that the British negotiate on the question of giving up territory that doesn’t want to be given up; we’re even endorsing Argentina’s blustering insistence on calling the islands by the prior name. All in all, this is a fairly significant change: the question is, why?
The answer is in two parts, both of them easy to grasp: first, President Obama doesn’t particularly like the British. It’s largely a racial thing, alas: the President’s grandfather had personal issues with the British colonial government, and the President has never really forgiven them for it*. Second, and probably more importantly (for Obama, at least**): Argentina will probably offer the President a better deal for the Falklands’ resources. And before you say “What, sheep?” …nope. Oil. It’s confirmed now that there’s oil there.
See? Easy to understand: President Obama hates one side, and the other side will be happy to kiss up to to the President in exchange for the opportunity to get a hold of several billion dollars’ worth of oil revenue. If you have the kind of mind that the President does, it’s practically a no-brainer… which I suppose could also describe my reaction to this, if not in the way that the term is usually used…
Moe Lane (crosspost)
*Yes, that’s a fairly immature reason for pursuing a particular foreign policy. Been not following international politics for long, have you? Also: as the date on that link may suggest, I didn’t need Dinesh D’Souza (who I’ve never read) to tell me that the President has an inherited chip on his shoulder when it comes to the British. It was already fairly obvious.
**This is where the President’s basic problem with relating with the rest of us is clearest: he really, truly, honestly does not understand why normal people get disgusted by this kind of petty backstabbing of a key American ally.
Moe Lane
Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
Jeff Emanuel
A knife in the back of yet another friend.
chbroussard (Diary) Thursday, June 9th at 8:06PM EDT (link)Just what in the hell is wrong with people in this country that continue to support this pitiful excuse for a leader. Move over Jimmy Carter. Obama is now the BFF of all the world’s dictators.
Not All of Them
edintexas Friday, June 10th at 7:57AM EDT (link)He obviously has an erection for Libya’s Daffy. However, that is the aberrant instance as he seems perfectly happy with Syria’s al Assad, Iran’s Armageddonwhackjob and the other myriad despots in the world.
Actually...
rivahmitch Friday, June 10th at 10:00AM EDT (link)I suspect he has little problem with Daffy. It’s just that helping the “Arab Spring” implementation of the new Caliphate is consistent with his overall goals. He’s waiting to see “Barack Hussein Oscummy Mosques” built in Egypt on the sites where Coptic churchs has stood for centuries…. of course, that will be right after the “Palestinians” have eradicated all tracers of Judaism and Christianity from Jerusalem.
Prayer for Obama:
Psalm 109:8: “May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.”
A knife in the back of yet another friend.
chbroussard (Diary) Thursday, June 9th at 8:06PM EDT (link)Just what in the hell is wrong with people in this country that continue to support this pitiful excuse for a leader. Move over Jimmy Carter. Obama is now the BFF of all the world’s dictators.
Exact opposite of correct foreign policy
YnotNOW (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 7:16PM EDT (link)Obama seems to always alienate allies and appease adversaries. Which is a nice alliteration that is all too true with this administration. He seems to want to level the field of counties until none are more favored than others – regardless of whether they are free or totalitarian.
YnotNOW
If not me, who? If not now, when?
Not only that...Beryy get's to proove himself to be the Anti-Reagan
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, June 9th at 8:23PM EDT (link)since this breaks completely with Reagan’s stand with the British when Maggie trounced Argentina’s sorry behind.
On top of that…Argentina is a Socialist/Communist/Marxist state is it not?
I can’t believe the snotty petulance of this man child….this isn’t the way an American head of state should behave…
and what happens if berry’s ignorance and childish behavior starts another war over the Falklands? will we send ships against our staunchest ally from NATO?
This guy make Jimmy Carter look like an absolute genius in comparison
Brits to Obama...
silentcal2012 (Diary) Thursday, June 9th at 8:23PM EDT (link)… Falk U
"*Yes, that’s a fairly immature reason for pursuing a particular foreign policy."
wilgolden Thursday, June 9th at 8:37PM EDT (link)Well, yes, but this is also a pretty immature pResident . . .
I can’t wait for 2012.
We could run Ronald McDonald against this clown, and wil a Reganesque landslide.
“Proud Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Since 1964!”
wilgolden, that would presuppose...
heartlander (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 12:35AM EDT (link)…that the American electorate does not include millions of mindless, Oprah-addicted drones
AND
…that there will be no cheating, fraud, illegalities and stealing of the election by the party that does it best
AND
…that we have news media that cover things objectively/non-partisanly
AND
…that government agencies such as the FEC and the DOJ actually do their job in preventing and prosecuting election fraud.
Landslide?
I will count it a miracle — a direct, gracious intervention by the Almighty — if we actually manage to eject that monster from the White House.
“The still, small voice of God in every human soul is the greatest ally of the pro-life cause, and why it will ultimately prevail.”
–Donald R. McClarey
Well said and so true. nt
chbroussard (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 7:53AM EDT (link)Well said and so true. nt
chbroussard (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 7:53AM EDT (link)Presuppositions
edintexas Friday, June 10th at 8:02AM EDT (link)ROTFLMOL*
* Rolling On The Floor Laughing Madly Out Loud – it is better for me than crying over what the country has become.
Actually, chb and ed in TX, I don't mean to...
heartlander (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 1:50PM EDT (link)…be completely grim. For all that we face, I also know there are millions of good, decent, solid, common-sense people in this great country. And I think of the horrible odds our Founding Fathers faced, how grim things looked through most of the war, how the majority of people either opposed them or, even if sympathetic, wouldn’t stick their necks out for them. They hung in there, though, and got the job done.
We can, too, especially if we keep God — who IS Truth and Justice — at the center of our lives.
“The still, small voice of God in every human soul is the greatest ally of the pro-life cause, and why it will ultimately prevail.”
–Donald R. McClarey
At the rate Obama is going
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, June 9th at 8:43PM EDT (link)The British might invade the US……
All kidding aside.
If the Brits went down to the Falklands to fight anoither war, they may take
more than they started with…..
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
Maybe the Brits can then re-invade The Falklands for old times sake.
libertyfreedom Thursday, June 9th at 8:57PM EDT (link)Is there any evidence that our president actually hates the British because that would be unfortunate.
Hi! I’m wesley1! I was banned! But I can’t stay away from you folks!
Brits-Falklands
ktsub (Diary) Thursday, June 9th at 9:12PM EDT (link)Brits have a big force there, probably as many troops and airman as the population of Falklands citizens. The sad part is the British have said they will grant independents at the request of the islanders…they don’t want it, they want to be British. Obama is siding with the country that wants to invade by force. Sad.
libertyfreedom
patryott Thursday, June 9th at 9:32PM EDT (link)I see you havn’t been paying attention, eh
wasn't returning Churchills bust enough for you? nt
audax (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 2:53AM EDT (link)Audeamus pro audere est facere
Ignore the Troll
edintexas Friday, June 10th at 8:03AM EDT (link)It really ticks them off.
our president?
gunslingr45 Friday, June 10th at 8:06AM EDT (link)No, yours. I have not nor never will call him that.
He would not make a pimple on a real president’s arse.
Hey if this thing was banned do I have to be respectful?
But he is the President of the United States
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 10:35AM EDT (link)Are you not of the United States?
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“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
Obama largest calamity to befall this nation since the Civil War
dajeeps (Diary) Thursday, June 9th at 9:44PM EDT (link)There just isn’t any more shock value left in the stuff he does. I can’t wait to get rid of him and hope that it isn’t too late to clean up the mess once he’s gone.
…”I would quarrel with both parties and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.”
–John Adams
Maybe the UK should pull their Apaches
partyof1 Thursday, June 9th at 10:28PM EDT (link)out of Libya and send to the Falklands. Just to be on the safe side.
Also out of Afghanistan and send to Falklands!! nt
audax (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 2:54AM EDT (link)Audeamus pro audere est facere
the left thinks he plays 9 dimensional chess
jackhammer Friday, June 10th at 6:48AM EDT (link)but this guys moves are akin to playing checkers with a 4 year old…..and not a particularly bright 4 year old either.
I'm pretty sure
bcochran1981 Friday, June 10th at 7:47AM EDT (link)that the 4 year old is winning.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time and liberal voters every time.
How dare you
bruceinva Friday, June 10th at 7:44AM EDT (link)dignify what Obama has done by even using the word “dispute”. There hasn’t been any dispute over them for over two decades, unless you want to call some malcontent losers in Argentina who really haven’t been very vocal about it ‘parties to a dispute’.
What happened to the Special Relationship?
BigRedConservative (Diary) Friday, June 10th at 8:33AM EDT (link)You’ve gotta love the Obama Doctrine; throw your old friends in front of the bus and choose new allies that are either openly or effectively hostile to the USA. Genius. Oh, and of course the Energy Doctrine-stop drilling in your own country, and then betray your alliesto buy it at higher cost from enemies. This is too crazy for fiction.
And two and two always makes a five
It’s the devil’s way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now
Radiohead
There's a twisted logic to BHO's madness...
vandalii Friday, June 10th at 7:31PM EDT (link)…such as the price of oil skyrocketing so his investments in Chrysler and GM start to become economically competitve. He’s taken to heart the idea that if gas becomes $6-8/gal, suddenly the gov’t won’t have to subsidize the Volt so heavily — more people will pay the extra $20-30K for a Volt over gas-only engines if the gas alone will cost an extra $3-5K/yr in raised gas costs.
He’s learned the lesson of economics — technological progress on consumer items like cars must be economically competitve to take over the current technology. However, rather than making the Volt more affordable thru improving the cost of the vehicle as economics suggests, he’s driving the other side of the teeter-totter up artificially trying to force his “green machine” agenda out into the world as it is, limitations, subsidies and all. Arguably, the Volt is very innovative. No argument that it has limited appeal and is *way* too expensive for a lower-performing answer to the Corolla/Civic/etc.
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue.” – Winston Churchill
And all of this
spiff Friday, June 10th at 9:14AM EDT (link)because he didn’t get an invitation to THE wedding…What an infantile mind! Nobama reminds me of a 13 year old sitting behind the steering wheel of a large, fully loaded semi truck and trailer – he can’t even see over the steering wheel, but THEY are letting him drive anyway!!!
Spiff
Australia
americana Friday, June 10th at 4:40PM EDT (link)is where we’re moving if he gets elected again. At least they know how to control their muslims!
Falkland Islander
steve55 Monday, June 13th at 9:19PM EDT (link)The UN states we islanders (who have been here for over 5 generations) have the right to self determination – if Mexico claimed Texas and the whole of Latin America then stood behind them – which it definitely would – where would Obama expect us to stand? i don’t think Brits would stand on the fence in case we could get a better deal on oil from Mexico I think we would make a stand for what is right.