Late last week, President Obama gave a wonderful foreign policy speech. How great was it? Well, both the far right and the far left found faults in the speech. When only the far sides of the 2 parties have a problem with a speech, you know that it was a very good moderate speech. So why am I complaining about far right GOP Tea Party but not the far left Democrats? Let me explain.
For the far left Democrats, they explained that the speech, while very good, didn't go far enough in explaining the drone attacks and releasing some of the prisoners in Cuba. They wanted a bigger explanation of drone strike policies, more openness in the policy, and the closure of the prison in Guantanamo Bay, which President Obama campaigned for in 2007. So they explained their problems with the speech, and explained how they wanted things fixed. The GOP Tea Party far right? Well, they said that they hated the speech because the President was being soft on terrorism. Okay, then explain what you'd do. Well, they said that the President was being soft on terrorist. They said this even though the President said the administration would go after individual terrorists cells. But the President said that no country could stay on a war footing forever, and that in the near future, the "War on Terrorism", with Al-Qaeda decimated, would be over. Yes, terrorists would be sought after and taken down, but America's war footing had to come to an end. So what is the the far right's plan? Simply, to keep the country on a war indefinitely. Presidents from Madison knew this isn't possible. Why doesn't the far right understand it? I spent 20 years in the military and I can't explain their logic.
When the GOP was the Republican Party, they were strong on national security because they were strong on defense. Now, the GOP is the Tea Party and they're war-mongers. This makes them not strong on national security. That's right, the party of security, the GOP, since they've become the Tea Party, can't even get foreign policy right.
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