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Ralph Peters on Obama: ‘Most Disastrous Foreign Policy President of My Lifetime'

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-22 00:20|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 What about LBJ & Carter?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-22 03:50|| 2016-11-22 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 It doesn't help to keep committing to more and more entangling 'alliances'. You can only divert or distract chaos in the long run at great expense, but you can not stop it from playing out. Choose wisely and within your resources. He who tries to defend everything, defends nothing. There would be less disasters if there had been less commitments in the first place.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-22 06:24|| 2016-11-22 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Grom, IMO Peters is correct - Obama has been a worse foreign policy President than even Carter & Johnson, whose failures were large but not broad-based, like Obama's.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-11-22 09:24|| 2016-11-22 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I would have to vote for Carter as the most disastrous. He didn't back the Shah, lost Iran, apologized to the Ayatollah, picked a fight with the Soviets in Afghanistan by supporting the very same AQ idiots we are fighting now... Carter was the liberal incompetent genesis for most of what is troubling us now. Not that Obama is any better...Carter was worse.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-11-22 09:35|| 2016-11-22 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a toss-up.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-22 09:57|| 2016-11-22 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 LBJ killed a helluva lot more people than Obama and Carter combined. Perhaps off topic but his domestic policy, his so called Great Society, was a disaster that we are still living with. Slimy mother fucker.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-11-22 10:58|| 2016-11-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Carter and Obama were dithering, blithering incompetents. LBJ was powerful, forceful, determined and for a long time a lot of people actually believed him.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-11-22 11:07|| 2016-11-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Despite what the MSM says to the contrary, Clinton wasn't such great shakes as a POTUS. His ineptitude led to the financial collapse and 911. Also there was Mogadishu, Rwanda, Waco and Ruby Ridge and Hillary Care. He didn't take out Bin Laden when he had the chance. And there was PeckerGate.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-22 12:05|| 2016-11-22 12:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Hear, hear!

Posted by DarthVader 2016-11-22 12:34|| 2016-11-22 12:34|| Front Page Top

#10 In my heart of hearts, Jimmy Carter will always be Worst President Ever. I will concede First Female President to Obama, though.

Posted by SteveS 2016-11-22 12:40|| 2016-11-22 12:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Not to mention Serbia, JQC

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-22 13:16|| 2016-11-22 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Col Peters supported Hillary who promised an extension of Obama's policies so it's hard to take him seriously.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-22 14:23|| 2016-11-22 14:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Col Peters supported Hillary who promised an extension of Obama's policies so it's hard to take him seriously.
Posted by rjschwarz

I believe you may be thinking of some other colonel.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-22 14:35|| 2016-11-22 14:35|| Front Page Top

#14 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/07/ralph_peters_im_voting_for_hillary_clinton.html

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-22 15:42|| 2016-11-22 15:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Hear, hear, RJ

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-22 17:10|| 2016-11-22 17:10|| Front Page Top

#16 JohnQC, good points, but Ruby Ridge was on Bush not Clinton.

Posted by rammer 2016-11-22 23:12|| 2016-11-22 23:12|| Front Page Top

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