President Obama's Foreign Concept of Foreign Policy

October 1, 5:56 AMPolitical Buzz ExaminerVincent Bordini

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President Obama is facing bad news from Iran almost daily now. He has had to explore sanctions against the country he claimed just last year was not a threat. "Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us,” - then Senator Obama on the campaign trail. He quickly changed his tune and decided that Iran was grave threat within days:

The fact that a man running for President had to take a crash course on who was dangerous did not seem to phase the media at the time. Some on the right raised this issue, but others were blinded by the brilliance of then Senator Obama.

Now with the revelation that Iran has two uranium enrichment facilities and is publicly test firing ballistic missiles to demonstrate their delivery capabilities, President Obama sounds hauntingly like his predecessor in 2003. "Iran is on notice that when we meet with them on Oct. 1 they are going to have to come clean and they are going to have to make a choice." Iran's choice will most likely not be disarmament. If they choose to stay the course, it is our President who is going to have to make a choice.

In Afghanistan we have seen the bloodiest months since the start of the war. When President Obama was campaigning, he said he would invade Pakistan to get bin Laden if necessary. He used even more hyperbole when he attacked Senator John McCain. “John McCain likes to say that he’ll follow bin Laden to the gates of Hell. But he won’t even go to the cave where he lives.” No word on why President Obama has resisted going to this "cave" but such nuance is beyond the grasp of us common folk. Not only has President Obama not gone to the cave bin Laden lives in, but he seems to be considering giving the whole of Afghanistan to Osama bin Laden.

Since his 2008 campaign, President Obama always offered tough talk on Afghanistan. He wavered on Iran, vacillating between them being tiny and harmless to dangerous, but on Afghanistan he was resolute. Until he actually took office. Then it became the "New Realism" which really meant "let's see how bad I need the support of the far left and then we will decide on Afghanistan."

Now, our troops await both relief and reinforcement and this President is flying to Copenhagen to beg for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Chicago so he can have a coming home party. Hopefully his vague construct of health care reform will pass quickly so he can forgo holding up General McChrystal's requested troops and not worry about the support of the far left.