NY Times gives us the bad news about Obama's foreign policy efforts.

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From the NY Times, here:  TOKYO — President Obama encountered setbacks to two of his most cherished foreign-policy projects on Thursday, as he failed to achieve a trade deal that undergirds his strategic pivot to Asia and the Middle East peace process suffered a potentially irreparable breakdown. . . .   

Editor's note:  the brief article goes on to outline or reference three failures.  One has to do with trade agreements with Japan as Japanese farmers resisted the proposed agreement(s).  Another has to do with the Obama/Kerry failure to bring Israel and the Palestinians together.  And,  a third failed effort,  as noted by the Times,  is the laughable "reset" policy of this Administration and its demonstrable failure as seen in Russia's aggression in Ukraine.  The article did not mention Obama's refusal to stop Iran's progress as a nuclear state;  his failed military policies in Iraq and Afghanistan; his monumental failure in Libya, his betrayals in Poland and the Czech Republic, his refusal to recognize Islam's international campaign against the Christian community,  whether Catholic,  Coptic, or Evangelical;  his failed policy, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood,  his decision to support the Communist takeover in Honduras (August of 2009);  his alliance with Al Jazeera;  his Carter-style "hostage crisis,"  paying five million dollars to Egyptian radicals for the release of 17 Americans in an under-reported story,   and on and on.  

The article ends with this rather surprising summary statement:  

The setbacks, though worlds apart in geography and history, speak to the common challenge Mr. Obama has had in translating his ideas and ambitions into enduring policies. He has watched outside forces unravel his best-laid plans, from resetting relations with Russia to managing the epochal political change in the Arab world. On Thursday, as Russia staged military exercises on the border with Ukraine, Mr. Kerry denounced broken promises from the Kremlin but took no specific action.

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Bush won the Iraqi War. Obama has, officially, lost that war. Here is why . . . ;.

Exclusive: Iraq signs deal to buy arms, ammunition from Iran - document

BY AHMED RASHEED

BAGHDAD Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:19am EST

Editor's Notes:  We can now,  officially,  take the Iraqi War out of the win column.  Obama did not pursue the "status of forces"  worked out by Bush.  As a direct result of our retreat from the region,  under and because of Hussein Obama's feckless Middle East policies,  the more than 4,000 lives lost,  in that war,  has gone to waste.  There is simply no other way to frame this headlined event.  And to think,  that a large population of Americans still think Obama's foreign policies are a success.

Hussein Obama's Foreign Policy "Successes"  

As a reminder,  Obama's policy as to Iran has allowed that nation to become a nuclear power,  in the Middle East;  it is has allowed Iraq to partner with its one time mortal enemy,  Iran;  it (Obama's policies) has provided a staging region for al Qaeda, to train international terrorists and invade Syria;  it has been primary in the fall of the pro-West Egyptian government;  it supports the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization dedicated to the overthrow of Israel and the U.S, ;  it has destroyed the Libyan government and is directly responsible for the deaths of our ambassadors in Benghazi;  it has ended hopes for a missile defense system in both Georgia and Poland,  and continues to ignore the Chinese military build up as well as the moronic despotism of North Korea.   

Strike one for the week: Iranian leadership tells Obama they are not interested in meeting with him. Strike two for the week: Brazil tells Obama to take a hike, as well. Wow! The man makes us proud, every week he is in office, no ?

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday delivered a stinging rebuke of electronic espionage by the National Security Agency, telling a gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that American eavesdropping constitutes “a breach of international law and an affront” to Brazil’s sovereignty.

“Without the right of privacy, there is no real freedom of speech or freedom of opinion, and so there is no actual democracy.   Without respect for [a nation’s] sovereignty, there is no basis for proper relations among nations.”

She canceled her scheduled meeting with Obama,  this week,  because of his Admistration’s efforts to spy on a Brazilian oil company and,  on the president of Brazil, herself.  Turns out that Obama’s NSA accessed Rousseff’s personal email account(s) ,  sending that president into a rage. 

First,  Iran refuses Obama’s invitation for a “sit down,”  and now,  Brazil does the same.  Kind of funny,  no?   

Source:  see the article in the WaPost,  here.  

Middle East Peace - an impossible dream now that Iran has nuclear capabilities.

Abbas, Clinton and Nitanyahu are major players in this weeks push by Obama, to bring peace in the Palestinian/Israeli long running crisis.

We give this a zero chance of creating a long term change in the debate and associated conflict. Read on and you will understand why.

What is not being discussed by the media is the timing for this conference. While the participants have been involved in continuing talks over the past several weeks, if not months, the announcement for the event came at the same time the Iranian nuclear plant was being heated up with the assistance of Russian antagonists.

Understand that the Obama opposition - or supposed opposition - to the intentions of Iran "going nuclear" has been a colossal and abject failure. We will look back in time and mark this as one of the most critical circumstances in the history of the Middle East. It changes the balance of power in the region and gives Iran a position of power that complicates plans for peace and political stability throughout the entire region. Most analysts believer that an attack on the nuclear plant in question would have passed without major complications if it had taken place a few months ago. Now, with the plant producing nuclear material, the Iranian rush to regional dominance is well on its way -- and we have Mr. Obama's wreakless idealism to thank for this.

We find great significance in the fact that on the same weekend Iran goes nuclear, Obama began his 10 vacation in the Hamptons and Hillary announced the peace talks for this week. Ask yourself, which of these three events is the more important? Anyone see the connection?

Point of post: think for a moment as to the critical importance of Iranian nuclear advances; tie this foreign policy disaster to the ensuing politics of the region; understand that all this came to a "head" two weeks ago and you will understand the purpose for the Administration's timing announcing "peace talks begin" at the very moment in history when peace in the Middle East became an impossible dream.

Obama and Company desperately wanted their Iranian failure "out of the media's eye." It looks that there strategies have succeeded. The story is nowhere to be found -- jds.
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