Thread: An Absent Leader and a World on the Verge of War

Obama's endless world tour, rich in speechmaking and short on action, has sent the message that the United States is weak and unable to do anything

An Absent Leader and a World on the Verge of War

By Daniel Greenfield
Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Indian military projects that a Chinese invasion will occur within the decade. Thousands of Japanese families leave the country every year out of fear that a nuclear attack from North Korea is now inevitable. The Russian military squats looking over Georgia and the Ukraine, planning to retake their former Warsaw Pact territories.

Meanwhile Iran’s own race toward a nuclear bomb, brings it into a collision course not only with Israel, but with the region’s Sunni Arab powers. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are rapidly pushing their own nuclear projects, and are cooperating with Israel on a potential raid on Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

In Latin America the tide of Cuban backed leftist dictatorships has hit a wall in Honduras and Columbia. The choice is now between coups, popular revolutions or right wing insurgencies on the Contra model, resulting in large scale bloodshed across Latin America.

The economic crisis has only accelerated the situation with countries such as Russia and China which got rich off its exports, suddenly discovering that the good life is drying up, and oligarchic capitalism no longer looks like such a good model. North Korea’s egocentric madman Kim Jong Il is nearing the end of his life, and after a lifetime of being worshiped as a god, is likely to want to go out with a bang. Iran is facing serious domestic instability and economic problems due to its population boom, generation gap and control of wealth by a handful of families. The Latin American leftist dictatorships, from Chavez on down, have seen their “reformsâ€

Excellent article and well worded on Obummer's inept attitude towards world issues. Man, it's gonna be a long 4 years!!!!