It’s a sad day for the United States when the president of any other country, but especially Russia, can outmaneuver our president and successfully claim the moral high ground on anything. But that’s exactly what happened thanks to President Obama’s feckless “foreign policy by gaffe” – if you can even it call it policy – toward Syria in recent weeks.
But in the course of seizing that high ground, Vladimir Putin got a couple of things wrong.
He wrote a column in The New York Times Wednesday that concluded, “My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”
Contrary to Putin’s prose, American exceptionalism is not based on “policies” but the principles upon which our nation was founded. For what it’s worth, President Obama misunderstands this too, but the thought of a Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB invoking God and citing the Declaration of Independence is beyond ironic. Yet aside from what Putin gets wrong, he gets one thing right, if only by accident.
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One world government coming full speed ahead.Imported wisdom due to a lack herein.Not nearly as bad as it appears on the surface.No minds in the US can encompass the entire world,but there are minds on Earth that can.Just not here.For that reason we must look elsewhere and accept the wisdom that does not exist here.A one world government is no longer an option.It is a necessity.
ReplyDeletePutin may turn out to be a friend, but he still doesn't understand our Declaration of Independence yet. We need to follow up with him on this one. This may provide a unique opportunity to connect with him!
ReplyDeleteSomewhere Stalin is grinning.
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ReplyDeleteyour utopia attitude is truly disturbing. do you honestly believe that islamist have any desire to live peacefully with christians. do you honestly feel that there is some great mind that can say to those who want to destroy christians "now you go to your corner and behave". maybe you have had your head in the sand but the mideast is far worse than it has ever been in my lifetime, iran will soon be nuclear, russia is resurging, china owns us, our morals as a country are a joke. please keep your utopia to yourself. i believe in the country that was founded over 200 years ago with a strong christian moral backbone that spread liberty and freedom throughout the world By Setting an Example. your world Socialist/Communist doctrine will destroy this world
8:23-Damn few on this side of the pond understand it either.
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