President Obama Channeling American Presidential Exceptionalism?

I might add you didn’t even touch on the most controversial approach TOTUS led the POTUS on for our West Point grads, Wordsmith. His desire for international order as a US military strategy.

Obama, delivering the commencement speech Saturday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, said that “stronger international standards and institutions” and stronger alliances can “resolve” challenges ranging from terrorism to nuclear proliferation to climate change to economic decline.

“Our adversaries would like to see America sap its strength by overextending our power,” Obama said. “So we have to shape an international order that can meet the challenges of our generation.”

The president added that efforts by America’s armed forces need to be “complemented” with greater diplomatic engagement “from grand capitals to dangerous outposts,” more humanitarian assistance to needy nations, better communications among intelligence agencies, first responders to act after earthquakes, storms and disease and “law enforcement that can strengthen judicial systems abroad, and protect us at home.”

“America has not succeeded by stepping outside the currents of cooperation; we have succeeded by steering those currents in the direction of liberty and justice — so nations thrive by meeting their responsibilities, and face consequences when they don’t,” he told the graduating class at the military academy.

“This engagement is not an end in itself. The international order we seek is one that can resolve the challenges of our times — countering violent extremism and insurgency; stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and securing nuclear materials; combating a changing climate and sustaining global growth; helping countries feed themselves and care for their sick; preventing conflict and healing its wounds,” he said.

International order??? So how does sovereignty fit into that “international order” agenda? Without enforcement ability… which he so clearly states is necessary… nation states laws are toothless if they don’t support that “international order” agenda.

Now despite the fact our globetrotting POTUS gets out of the WH a lot, he still hasn’t seemed to notice that the US is the protective military umbrella for the free world. Or that the Euro nation allies are so financially bogged down with their Euro-socialist welfare states that greater contribution to US military forces as an “international order” is fiscally impossible. Math, as we all know, is not an Obama forte.

Then there’s that diplomatic endorsement… like enemies such as we face now will magically become non-violent with the offer of a bit of hummus and pita bread or an olive branch.

Obama did not say Saturday which specific global institutions he wants to build. Obama has made enhanced international cooperation a priority dating back to the campaign and so far has carried out that goal by seeking global agreements for nuclear weapons reduction, an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhanced support from the United Nations in dealing with rogue regimes.

But his West Point speech struck some as a stretch — particularly since efforts at the United Nations so far have done little to halt nuclear development in Iran and North Korea.

James Carafano, an Army veteran and director of the Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, said the plodding and uphill battle to win sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program demonstrates the problems with over-relying on global institutions.

“It’s just simply not grounded in reality,” he said. “It’s strategic nonsense.”

The commencement address follows Obama’s speech at the close of a nuclear security summit in Washington last month in which he said the United States is a superpower “whether we like it or not.”

That remark touched off debate over whether the administration feels burdened by the superlative status.

Carafano said the superpower remark was no “Freudian slip” and that the West Point speech amounted to more than just rhetoric — he said the administration has already started undermining U.S. sovereignty with its arms reduction treaty with Russia.

“He thinks diminished American power and independence in the world actually is a force for good,” Carafano said.

We have an idiot at the helm on all realms. He is a domestic fiscal disaster. He is a foreign policy dolt. And with a glimmer of a chance, he’d give away the American farm to international governance. Most troubling, he is an embarrassment as America’s CiC. By heavens, the man doesn’t even have the balls to stand up for one of the States of this Union, and instead endorses… along with those pieces of crap in Congress with a D behind their names… the Mexican President. This guy’s priorities and perspectives, along with his flunky party members, are seriously FUBAR’d.

As long as Obama follows the Iraq/Bush SOFA, and Iraq manages to maintain their own, he can’t screw up what Bush/Iraq accomplished… an accomplishment that he and his fellow Dems fiercely endeavored to thwart. He has Petraeus in AfPAK (good), but then he’s got McChrystal as the NATO head honcho (a joke). Even when they tell him what they need, he doesn’t deliver.

The big zero is genuinely under the impression that his mere presence in the Oval Office has “mended” international fences. Rather omnipotent – and seriously arrogant – of him since nation states have never existed under total harmony …. nor will they in the future. We’ve rarely been loved, are the butt of the world’s jokes, but when the going gets tough, their hand is always out for the US dollar or the demand for the US military to come to their aid. Perhaps Obama may accomplish his desires to make the US as mediocre and fiscally distressed as European nations… and rest comfortable that he did something wonderful. But history has a place for such leaders. And it’s unlikely to be upon the pedestal he so desires to occupy.