Foreign Policy Failures | Misplaced Priorities

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Barack Obama is still president for the next 26 months. Starting in January, he'll have to contend with a Republican House and Senate on matters of domestic policy and spending. But when it comes to foreign policy, the Constitution grants the president tremendous authority.

Expect America's standing in the world to continue to decline as our enemies exploit Obama's remaining time in office. It is already happening.

• While the media were ballyhooing Obama's "three meetings with Putin" in China, Putin was sending tanks into Ukraine and positioning long-range bombers in the Gulf of Mexico. (By the way, those "meetings" were just brief conversations in between summit sessions totaling about 20 minutes.)
• Last week, the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, answering critics of Israel's actions in Gaza, said, "I actually do think that Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties." The general noted that the U.S. even sent a delegation to Israel three months ago to learn about limiting civilian casualties from the IDF.
  
  Dempsey was slapped down immediately when a reporter pressed State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki about the Obama Administration's previous condemnations of Israeli military conduct. Psaki retorted, "It remains the broad view of the entire Administration that [Israel] could have done more and they should have taken more -- all feasible precautions to prevent civilian casualties."
• Three U.S. sailors were assaulted by radical Islamists in Istanbul, Turkey -- a supposed NATO ally. The attack was videotaped for propaganda purposes, and CBS accommodated the jihadists by playing it. That video is a disturbing example of what has happened to America's prestige and standing in the world under Barack Obama.

Obama's Misplaced Priorities
It was announced to much fanfare that President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached an agreement to dramatically reduce carbon emissions. Really? Carbon emissions?

That speaks volumes about Obama's misplaced priorities. By the way, while Obama's worried about global warming, another polar vortex is hitting the country, bringing record cold temperatures and snow to several states.

The president goes to China at a time when the Chinese are waging a massive cyber-warfare campaign against us and our leading companies. We learned just this week that the Post Office was hacked and Chinese state agencies top the list of suspects.

It was only a year ago that China's communist media outlets were >bragging about plans for a nuclear strike that could kill 12 million Americans. Moreover, China's military leadership has concluded that it is capable of "bloodlessly deterring U.S. intervention" should it move against Taiwan.

To prove the point, the Chinese unveiled a new stealth fighter this week, which they built by stealing our technology. The test flight -- with America's president in the country -- was a clear example of China flexing its military muscles.

Yet in the midst of all these national security threats, Obama elevates carbon emissions and climate change to the top of his list.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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