Foreign Policy

America Has No Foreign Policy

The United States of America has a State Department, it has row after row of people who speak badly every language from Arabic to Swahili badly, and it has rich donors who take on the task of acting as ambassadors to some foreign country every four to eight years. There are think-tanks, actual tanks and institutes dedicated to turning out papers on foreign policy. And despite all this, or perhaps because of all this, the country still has no foreign policy.

 White House Asserts: ‘Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself’

The White House said Saturday that Israel “has a right to defend itself” from attack and “they’ll make their own decisions” about military tactics and operations.
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters traveling on Air Force One that the U.S. wants “the same thing the Israelis want, which is an end to the rocket fire coming out of Gaza,” according to the White House pool report.

Obama's Soviet Mistake

Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was re-elected. Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake.

 

Egypt’s Brotherhood calls for protests, judges urge strikes

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called for protests across the country on Sunday to support President Mohammed Mursi, while the country’s judges urged for a nationwide strike against a decree they saw as granting Mursi new, extensive powers. The Brotherhood’s protest requests came as Egypt’s Judges Club, a body that represents judges throughout the country, called for “the suspension of work in all courts and prosecution administrations,” after several hours of emergency talks in response to what they called Mursi’s “ferocious attack on Egyptian justice.”