Liz Cheney: a chip off the old block. This woman has a knack for exposing President Obama for the Marxist foreign policy weakling he, in fact, is. Go, Liz.
Wake up, America, you’ve been had.
Read from the Wall Street Journal:
Obama Rewrites the Cold War
The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies.
By Liz Cheney
“There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.
Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: ‘The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.’
The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not ‘competition in astrophysics and athletics.’ It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet ‘sphere of influence’ was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.
It is irresponsible for an American president to go to Moscow and tell a room full of young Russians less than the truth about how the Cold War ended. One wonders whether this was just an attempt to push ‘reset’ -- or maybe to curry favor. Perhaps, most concerning of all, Mr. Obama believes what he said.
Mr. Obama's method for pushing reset around the world is becoming clearer with each foreign trip. He proclaims moral equivalence between the U.S. and our adversaries, he readily accepts a false historical narrative, and he refuses to stand up against anti-American lies.
The approach was evident in his speech in Moscow and in his speech in Cairo last month. In Cairo, he asserted there was some sort of equivalence between American support for the 1953 coup in Iran and the evil that the Iranian mullahs have done in the world since 1979. On an earlier trip to Mexico City, the president listened to an extended anti-American screed by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and then let the lies stand by responding only with, ‘I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for the things that occurred when I was 3 months old.’
Asked at a NATO meeting in France in April whether he believed in American exceptionalism, the president said, ‘I believe in American Exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.’ In other words, not so much.
The Obama administration does seem to believe in another kind of exceptionalism -- Obama exceptionalism. ‘We have the best brand on Earth: the Obama brand,’ one Obama handler has said. What they don't seem to realize is that once you're president, your brand is America, and the American people expect you to defend us against lies, not embrace or ignore them. We also expect you to know your history.
Mr. Obama has become fond of saying, as he did in Russia again last week, that American nuclear disarmament will encourage the North Koreans and the Iranians to give up their nuclear ambitions. Does he really believe that the North Koreans and the Iranians are simply waiting for America to cut funds for missile defense and reduce our strategic nuclear stockpile before they halt their weapons programs?
The White House ought to take a lesson from President Harry Truman. In April, 1950, Truman signed National Security Council report 68 (NSC-68). One of the foundational documents of America's Cold War strategy, NSC-68 explains the danger of disarming America in the hope of appeasing our enemies. ‘No people in history,’ it reads, ‘have preserved their freedom who thought that by not being strong enough to protect themselves they might prove inoffensive to their enemies.’
Perhaps Mr. Obama thinks he is making America inoffensive to our enemies. In reality, he is emboldening them and weakening us. America can be disarmed literally -- by cutting our weapons systems and our defensive capabilities -- as Mr. Obama has agreed to do. We can also be disarmed morally by a president who spreads false narratives about our history or who accepts, even if by his silence, our enemies' lies about us.”
UPDATE: Liz Cheney open to political run
8 comments:
Liz Cheney is full of crap. It WAS the people of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that stood up to their own leaders and said "enough". Yes, they were emboldened by the support of President Reagan and the West, but it did, and always does, take two to tango. Communism did not fall simply because of the United States. Ronald Reagan stood at the wall and demanded "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" in 1987. Two and a half years later, the wall came down, at the hands of the East German citizenry. Contrary to popular rightwingnut myth, Ronald Reagan did not play the Charlton Heston role of Moses; the Berlin Wall did not miraculously devolve into a pile of rubble as the Red Sea parted, in all its Technicolor glory, in "The Ten Commandments".
And as for Cheney's baffling discussion of American exceptionalism? "Asked at a NATO meeting in France in April whether he believed in American exceptionalism, the president said, ‘I believe in American Exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.’ In other words, not so much."
IN OTHER WORDS, NOT SO MUCH? That's just assinine. Obama's allusion could not have been more clear. The Brits and the Greeks wre probably the two civilizations most known for claiming their own exceptionalism! "NOT SO MUCH"? How stupid can one daughter of a political hack be? That's something one would expect to hear out of the mouth of one of the Bush twins; at least they have an excuse.
The fact that Liz Cheney is plotting a run for political office isn't surprising, but the thought of her getting elected is disappointing. But the worst is to realize that someone this partisan and this uninformed was given a job in the Bush administration as a deputy assistant anything. Nepotism has its benefits if you're not the general public.
Diogenes, you are out of your mind.
Nice defense of your points, Ms. Moore. Or do you not have a point to defend? Or do you not have a clue of how to defend it, without cutting & pasting some other pundit's words?
I showed you exactly why Cheney's comments were inaccurate, and your defense is indefensible.
LMAO Ask Liz to defend herself, since you cannot.
Diogenes, sometimes it's not worth the effort it takes to argue with you because you are closed-minded to everything I say.
Reagan outspent the Soviets on defense, and they were unable to keep up with us during a time of economic crisis in their country.
Reagan supported anti-Communist movements, something Obama is clueless about in regards to the enemies of today.
Your liberal friends in Congress opposed every move Reagan made to defeat Communism.
This all happened back when you were a Reagan supporter. Have you forgotten that you voted for him twice?
I know I voted for Reagan, but I didn't vote for him on the basis that he was our next Superhero! He certainy played an instrumental role in all this... but to suggest it was only Reagan or only America that made the Berlin Wall fall is silly and simply inaccurate.
while i do believe that no one person (reagan) is responsible for the soviet collapse, its an idealogical thing. its proof reagan's way was right and the soviets way was wrong... its that simple. it really doesnt matter how the rest played out. we won. we're right. and do you know why we're right? because we didnt have to slaughter our citizens and deny them every right in the world.
its like how people argue the refs blew the whole game for the losing team; yea your team's 25% shot making and 38 turnovers didnt do anything to blow the game, it was all the refs. the problem is on the team (russia)
and their inability to manage themselves that lost them the war,
(yes diogenes to a point i agree)
however, other than america... who was going to stop russia? if russia was allowed to make a global domination attempt, there was no country to stop them, only become an allie and not be stomped on. if america isnt in direct competition with russia, we dont know that russia's funds dont deplete as quickly as they did and its possible they last a few decades as a world power and not us.
so, while i see your point... i feel you're not giving reagan ANY credit. as he certainly deserves it.
Even though I will readily acknowledge Reagan's (and America's) importance in ending the Cold War, I don't need to, in this instance, because Liz Ceney and Ms. Moore seem hellbent to make sure Reagan and America get ALL the credit. And if anybody DARE say anything otherwise (e.g., President Obama) the wrath of the Cheney Gods will descend on them!
And the comment about "American exceptionalism? Not so much" is just absolutely twisting what was said. Proving -- once again -- that even when Obama, from their perspective, "gets it right", they'll turn it around to criticize him!
If it were only their own stupidity they were exhibiting, it'd be one thing, but the thought that other blithering idiots read this stuff and mindlessly accept it as fact is downright scary.
ah i dont think just everyone accepts it. i think more people are prone to accept the obama side of things. just about every entertainer out there is boasting about him. so, if your exposed to it that much, you tend to believe it. 40% republicans in america, 40% democrats in america... 20% go either way and judge this country. and unfortunately, that 20% is usually retards instead of well informed individuals.
btw that was me above you with the reagan thing, dont know why i hit anon.
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