AMERICA THE WEAK

Posted at 9:27 a.m. ET

Ralph Peters, who is not a mincer of words, writes a blunt, raw piece for the New York Post.  I was alerted to it by Ed Lasky of American Thinker.  Peters lays out, starkly, the foreign-policy prospects for an Obama presidency.

Foreign policy is usually the province of the president.  Congress can intervene, and does, but presidents normally get their way.  In an Obama administration, that presents a pretty frightening prospect:

IF Sen. Barack Obama is elected president, our re public will survive, but our international strategy and some of our allies may not. His first year in office would conjure globe-spanning challenges as our enemies piled on to exploit his weakness.

Add in Sen. Joe Biden - with his track record of calling every major foreign-policy crisis wrong for 35 years - as vice president and de facto secretary of State, and we'd face a formula for strategic disaster.

Nothing like waking up to good news.  And where would the disasters occur?

Al Qaeda. Pandering to his extreme base, Obama has projected an image of being soft on terror. Toss in his promise to abandon Iraq, and you can be sure that al Qaeda will pull out all the stops to kill as many Americans as possible - in Iraq, Afghanistan and, if they can, here at home - hoping that America will throw away the victories our troops bought with their blood.

And...

Iran. Got nukes? If the Iranians are as far along with their nuclear program as some reports insist, expect a mushroom cloud above an Iranian test range next year. Even without nukes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would try the new administration's temper in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf.

And...

Saudi Arabia. Post-9/11 attention to poisonous Saudi proselytizing forced the kingdom to be more discreet in fomenting terrorism and religious hatred abroad. Convinced that Obama will be more "tolerant" toward militant Islam, the Saudis would redouble their funding of bigotry and butchery-for-Allah - in the US, too.

And...

North Korea. North Korea will expect a much more generous deal from the West for annulling its pursuit of nuclear weapons. And it will regard an Obama administration as a green light to cheat.

Had enough?  There's much more, a whole list of horrors.  Now, it may not all come true, and remember that there's another election in two years.  Obama won't want to be handed a midterm defeat.  But his foreign-policy instincts are appalling, and he may lead us down the path of weakness and defeat.

October 20, 2008.