Mr. President, "The 1980's Are On Line One"


One of the more notable moments of the Obama-Romney debates was when the two argued about Romney's assertion that America's #1 geopolitical foe was Russia. The President dismissed this notion by mockingly stating that "the 1980's called and they want their foreign policy back". Just add that to the ever growing list of President Obama's miscalculations. Sarah Palin was characteristically ridiculed several years ago for what today seems prophetic. She stated that Vladimir Putin would enter Ukraine on Obama's watch. One can only speculate what the coverage would have been the media were balanced with regard to Palin. Now Romney appears to be the Cassandra. Just last week Putin landed in Cuba to meet with Raul Castro and discussed plans for the two nations to re-establish economic and military ties. Most alarmingly, the discussions include the possible building of military bases there. There are also talks of bases in Nicaragua and Venezuela which would re-create Russia's 1980's cold war posture. So far, as most other issues which would embarrass his 'hope-ness", this development has received no mass media coverage. Mr. President, 1980's called, they said you can borrow their foreign policy, you're going to need it.

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Unknown said…
Actually this is a much more aggressive Russia than we saw in the 1980s. While the Kremlin was content on sewing discontent and supporting revolutions in our hemisphere they did not build military bases in the Americas.
September 13, 2014 at 5:40 AM
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