Wednesday, March 23, 2011

So what are you going to do about Nagorno-Karabakh?

We all know that this president when he served in the Illinois senate voted "present" more times than not. It was as though he did not want to offend anyone. It should not be surprising that he is doing the same as president. He has not taken the lead on any domestic issue or on any foreign one either, in essence voting present. I previously wrote that he did the same on his NCAA bracket, picking only the higher seed teams to advance. I am reminded of what Bess Truman said when asked about Jimmy Carter's indecisiveness during the Iran hostage crisis. Asked what would Harry do her response was "I don't know but he would have done something." The same can be applied to Obama and contrast this with Reagan who responded to the hostage crisis by generating one of his own Iran-Contra. Well at least he did something. To illustrate the magnitude of the presidency, there are a myriad of domestic problems. But there are also a myriad of foreign problems and on all of them the president is uniformly silent. Here are the current world flashpoints that are in the news most every day. We expect the president to be conversant on all of these but he is conversant on none. Obama is the know nothing, do less president.

AFRICA


Algeria
, Angola, 
Congo(Zaire), 
Eritrea, 
Ethiopia, 
Liberia, 
Rwanda, 
Sierra Leone, 
Somalia
, Sudan,
Zimbabwe
THE AMERICAS


Colombia, 
Cuba, 
Guatemala
, Haiti, 
Mexico-US Border Disorder, 
Peru
, Venezuela
ASIA & PACIFIC REGION


Afghanistan
, Indonesia, 
Kashmir: India-Pakistan, 
Korea, 
Burma-Myanmar
, Philippines, 
Sri Lanka
, Uzbekistan
EUROPE & BALKANS


Basque Country, Spain, 
Bosnia, 
Cyprus, 
Kosovo-Serbia, 
Northern Ireland
MIDDLE EAST & NEAR EAST


Abkhazia-Georgia, 
Armenia, 
Azerbaijan, 
Chechnya, 
Iran, 
Iraq
, Israel-Palestine
, Lebanon, 
Nagorno-Karabakh, 
Saudi Arabia
, Syria, 
Turkey-Kurdistan, 
Yemen

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