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“If you are reading this, then you are the movement”

10.04.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 016

Foreign policy is always best when served cold.

I'm not being funny or philosophical here; I'm being serious.

Foreign policy is about sitting down with honest intent, bringing parties together and working out a respectful positive solution. Many times this leaves a president out in the cold, administrating his office through foreign policy, when forces are working against him. Foreign policy is not catering to “hot button” or knee jerk issues. Foreign policy is not conducted by taking a series of polls.

You only need one ingredient to make sure all of that happens, leadership. If you are engaged in discussions with a dictator who would rather see your nation crumble to the ground, and they walk away from the table, spitting in your face, at least you have bargained in good faith. There is no shame in that and your nation will love you for it.

I think foreign policy has been handled from as many different angles as there have been American presidents. It is truly the one part of the office that a President can affix their own specific brand, or lack thereof.

Foreign policy also lends itself to great failure, which is why the sitting President must have some kind of concrete vision. Not blocking out new ideas, but an overall understanding of where America should fit into world affairs, and how you as the President must facilitate that.

I would say our last six Presidents have been near total disasters. With the possible exception of how Reagan took the proper firm stance on the USSR implosion.

President Obama is very new to foreign policy, but his early outings make me believe that he will be added to the un-remarkable list of Presidents who just don't get foreign policy.

President Obama takes the approach of “Lets monitor the situation and then see what the polls say and then make some kind of middle of the road non-decision.”

This comes square at a time, when we need real leaders on the world stage.

President Obama's lack of leadership stems from an academic indoctrination and perception of the world. As a Liberal elitist from academia, President Obama enjoys discussing and thinking about wonderful theories of how the world should be one, bright colored patch-work of harmony and mutual respect amongst all the world's people and cultures. The world as an endless tapestry of rhythms that compliment each others inherent ethnic traits, moors and distinctions.

It sounds so wonderful, even to write it down. A peaceful world of order and acceptance.

All of this is obtainable, as long as the world adheres to an Obama picture, creed and template.

President Obama's world is the world of fantasy, ignorance and simplistic theory.

He has no understanding of how the world really works and does not work.

“But Chris don't you want to see a peaceful world with no terrorist threats and no more famine and war?” Of course I do.

I have a word of advice and direction for this new President, good foreign policy equals constant hard work.

No President swoops down into a foreign policy situation, delivers one exceptional speech, kiss a few cheeks, shakes a few hands and mystically changes the dynamic through sheer force of personality.

President Obama never has been interested in the hard work of foreign policy and he never will be. His calculated political choice of Senator Clinton for Secretary of State is proof positive.

Obama may think he has enough force of personality to sway foreign diplomats his way, but he must recognize the opposite reality.

President Obama is seen as yet another American show horse President, with little deep knowledge of global history and relationships. Again, it is the people you surround yourself with and how they also conduct themselves.

A small example that goes to heart of foreign policy gone bad.

An office in the west wing of the White House is the most cherished prize for anyone in D.C. Seeking to pad their resume and be self-important.

President Obama came into office and some positions that were traditionally west wing “eligible” office space, were transfered to the east wing or to the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB) just across Pennsylvania ave. This caused a huge firestorm deep inside white house personnel politics. As I am sure it has in previous administrations when the new President designates someone who has been in the west wing to pack up their desk and move “off planet” to the netherworld of the East wing or OEOB.

Feelings get hurt, egos are bruised, revenge is planned early and often.

Why am I spending so much time on some advisors who had to pack a few copier paper boxes of family pictures and move three hundred feet to the East wing?

Well, I agree with Obama and any other president that rearranges a few desks and chairs in the west wing. It is their decision which advisors and staff will be nearest him in the west wing.

Mainly because of mail volume, but the White House has two zip codes, one for the West Wing and one for the rest of the building. This is serious business to a lot of people, which zip code is on their in coming and out going mail.

Any decent, hard working, earnest human being would be so honored to serve the office of the president, they would gladly do it by flashlight, in a storage room, several levels below the surface of the white house proper. A patriot, willing to serve the office of the President, would stand up inside a white house closet for nine hours a day, tapping a keyboard with one hand, and holding up the monitor with the other. Good people willing to serve freedom are just like that.

But no, America's citizenry is grossly under served by those who swagger around the west wing, carefully measuring their office space every week and bragging about how close they are to the oval.

Thoughtful far-reaching foreign policy? Please. Not when the sitting President is in love with his own academic theories of a fantasy world, and his west wing advisors search IKEA websites for just the right credenza to slap on their government expense report. Foreign policy through disciplined leadership is not a graduate paper theory, it is bare knuckle hard work.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.