{"id":5178,"date":"2014-10-06T03:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:23:24","slug":"one-hundred-years-from-teddy-roosevelt-to-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/one-hundred-years-from-teddy-roosevelt-to-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Years from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the Bully Pulpit of Teddy Roosevelt<\/h1>\n

to the World’s Biggest Bully… Barack Obama<\/h1>\n

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\u00a0From Roosevelt’s Wise Foreign Policy of “Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick” <\/strong><\/h2>\n

to\u00a0Obama’s Penchant for\u00a0Beating other Countries\u00a0over the head\u00a0with it!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0By Scott Rohter<\/h3>\n

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Has America become the world\u2019s biggest bully? Do we\u00a0think we can\u00a0just keep bombing other countries into becoming democracies like we are?\u00a0It seems like that is what we\u00a0are trying to do in the Middle East.\u00a0\u00a0We bombed Iraq. We bombed Afghanistan. Then we bombed Libya. Now we are bombing Syria. Ever since 911…. for well over a decade now America has been hard at work dropping bombs all over the Middle East trying to bring these backward\u00a0cultures into the 21st Century. It hasn’t worked. It doesn’t work, and it wont work. It didn’t\u00a0convert Libya into becoming a democracy.\u00a0It didn’t convert Iraq into becoming a democracy. Hopefully it will work out better in Afghanistan,\u00a0but I wouldn’t hold your breath if I was you. \u00a0Now\u00a0“Warshington”<\/em> has commenced to bombing\u00a0Syria and Iraq\u00a0all over again in order to rid the nation of ISIS, but\u00a0we unwittingly created ISIS by deposing\u00a0Saddam Hussein. It just took the Sunnis this long to figure out how they were going to take their country back. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Apparently we have more bombs than we have brains. Now the United States Air Force is delivering a new blow for democracy in Syria from the bomb bay doors of our seemingly endless arsenal\u00a0of democracy. I wonder if\u00a0\u00a0this the same “arsenal of democracy”<\/strong><\/em> that Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0was talking about when he pledged\u00a0our\u00a0support to help defeat the Nazis in World War II? Somehow it just doesn’t seem like\u00a0a wise\u00a0foreign policy. We are not convincing many Muslims in the Middle East to give up their backward ways and embrace the democracy that\u00a0is bombing\u00a0them. We are\u00a0teaching them to hate\u00a0our democratic ways.<\/p>\n

\"Teddy<\/a>Theodore Roosevelt was America\u2019s 26th President. He was\u00a0the Commander in Chief between 1901 and 1909 just prior to World War I. He is considered by many historians to be one of our greatest Presidents. His face is immortalized in stone on Mt. Rushmore alongside\u00a0facades of\u00a0George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. So then it should come as no surprise that Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s\u00a0wise foreign policy of \u201cwalk softly and carry a big stick\u201d was our nation\u2019s diplomatic policy e\u00a0for many years.\u00a0That is how America had always interacted with\u00a0other nations of the world\u00a0during the 20th century. This has meant that the United States\u00a0maintains a significant military presence\u00a0around the world\u00a0which\u00a0serves as a deterrent against aggression by other nations. Our armed forces have always helped\u00a0maintain the peace in the world\u00a0while facilitating the resolution of\u00a0international problems in a manner that is consistent with our values and\u00a0our own best interests.<\/p>\n

In 2008 Barack Obama became America\u2019s first Black President. This was an historic opportunity to show the world what\u00a0Americans of African ancestry\u00a0could\u00a0accomplish.\u00a0Instead of being cautious and respectful, Barack Obama has thrown all\u00a0the conventional wisdom out the\u00a0window. He has replaced Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s careful respect for international norms of law and order, national sovereignty and territorial integrity with a reckless abandon and disrespect for the rights of other countries, a disregard for their borders and their national sovereignty which\u00a0has\u00a0often led to a diplomatic disaster. His numerous intrusions into other country\u2019s\u00a0purely domestic affairs cannot be described as walking softly at all. It is more like he is running\u00a0roughshod over them. Instead of just carrying a big stick\u00a0around like Teddy Roosevelt\u00a0suggested, Barack Obama is\u00a0using\u00a0a powerful weapon to\u00a0beat other countries\u00a0over the head. He is using the Unites States Air Force to drop bombs on them.<\/p>\n

In Libya Barack Obama used the Air Force to attack and remove the dictator Muammar Khadafy from power. In Egypt President Obama forced Hosni Mubarak to step down and relinquish control of the government to a known terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood. In Ukraine our State Department supported the street demonstrations that led to the overthrow of President Victor Yanukovich and the eventual referendum in Crimea\u00a0which led to its annexation by Russia.\u00a0The overthrow of the legitimate President of Ukraine\u00a0has also led to\u00a0revolts in Donetsk and Slovansk. In Iraq Barack Obama demanded that Prime Minister Nuri al Malaki resign even though he was elected by a large majority of Iraqis. Now President Obama wants to overthrow the government of Bashar al Assad in Syria. Just who in the hell does Barack Obama actually think he is or we are? We are not the policemen of the world.\u00a0 We are not the final authority on what goes on in every country. Instead of allowing\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0to remove any more leaders of other countries\u00a0maybe we should just remove him from office.\u00a0Maybe we can’t bring back Teddy Roosevelt but we can sure get rid of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

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Is America becoming the world\u2019s biggest bully? Can the United States just simply bomb other countries into becoming democracies? That’s what we have been trying to do in the Middle East in Iraq and Afghanistan for the past thirteen years. For over a decade we have been trying to bomb the Middle East into democracy, but it hasn’t worked out very well. It didn’t work too well in Libya and it certainly didn’t work out very well in Iraq. Hopefully Afghanistan will turn out to be another story, but now we are starting to bomb Syria and Iraq all over again. It is Shock and Awe revisited. My only question is this… Are we really convincing Muslims in the Middle East and around the world to love democracy or to hate the democracy that enables us to do this to them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,20],"tags":[559,562,560,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":98,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6732,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/6732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}