Keywords or Terms: Al-Qaeda; Republicans, Democrats; Arab
Spring; Muammar Gaddaffi; Obama’s Doctrine; White House Oval Office; George
Bush; Barack Obama; U.S troops; Iraq; and 2012 National Elections
Every American – whether you are Republican, Independent or
Democrat – must now give kudos to President Obama with his steady record of
successes in Foreign policy: 1) The engagement and killing of several Al-Qaeda
leaders, including their crown prince, Osama Bin Laden; 2) The concentration and
use of flying drones to engage American enemies and destroy them, including the
demise of the American-born Muslim Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, Al-Qaeda #2 Atiyah
Abd al-Rahman, Al-Qaeda #3 Mustaf
Abu al-Yazid, and several henchmen loyal to radical groups in Arabian
Peninsula and Islamic Maghreb; 3) The cautious support of democratically minded
groups in the Arab world to foster what is now known as the Arab Spring; 4) The
reconnection with the World beyond Middle East and Pakistan in foreign policy advancement;
5) Global leadership on non-proliferation, including the crafting of
intelligent campaign for non-proliferation in the world’s discourse and a
structured approach to Non-Proliferation
Treaty Reviews; 6) The withdrawal of US troops from the middle eastern country,
Iraq; and, 7) The ‘hard- to-praise-itself-or-take-credit’, even when the
foreign policy success can only be traced to his administration doings. Obama’s
subtle enthusiasm for his foreign policy has not only sustained his presidency
in time of gloomy economic seasons, it has put his Presidency on a road map of a
unique strategy that has hardly been subscribed to in American foreign policy advancements
in half a century. Incredibly, it has been magic!
A great number of foreign policy experts have indicated that
no President in the past half a century had accomplished so much in foreign
policy successes as President Obama had done, with fewer loss of American
lives. Some of the foreign policy successes were considered insurmountable
given the history of international conflicts and politics, yet Obama has made
that shinning light on the hill even more of a leader to respect and follow
than to scorn as was the case under the previous Republican Administration;
and, he accomplished many these successes leading from behind, or without being
perceived as a bully by the rest of the world. Even though he has just been in
office for three years, Obama has accomplished what the most recent Republican President,
George W. Bush, couldn’t despite his choice of aggressive and impromptu war
engagements. Fascinatingly, he has done so through hard work at the State
Department under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
National Security Organizations, American Military and private security enterprise;
and sometimes, through share luck in a few cases!
Obama’s foreign policy strategy affably referred to as Obama’s
doctrine in the Foreign Policy circles has brought to justice three prominent
international fugitives and enemies of America within a span of six
months: Osama Bin laden; Anwar al-Awlaki, and Muammar Gaddaffi. To underestimate
these laudable successes would be tantamount to heresy in American Foreign Policy
parlance. What Obama’s doctrine in foreign policy accomplished since the exit
of the last Republican President are not only ground braking or breath taking, hardly
could they have been taught at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government for
senior executives in National and International Security Programs.
Not that this or similar government and security programs at
first rate American Universities are not brilliant; but, where on earth could
you have taught how to immediately enter into the Briefing Room at the White
House to make an historic and somewhat shocking announcement to American people
that you were bringing their children home after languishing in a foreign land
for nine years in a war that is now considered a mistake and based on
unfortunate lies from the executive wing of the American government. Where on
earth could you have learned how to make good on a campaign promise to end the
Iraq war and bring American troops home, a day after Democratic-Progressive Forces
captured and killed Colonel Muammar Gaddaffi, the Libyan strongman for
forty-two years, who eluded not only the golden Republican Presidential leader,
Ronald Reagan, but remained a pain to successive American Republican Presidents,
until a Democrat President, Barack Obama, came along. For everyone’s observation,
President Obama accomplished the last feat or trophy without shedding a single
American blood!
The announcement
from President Obama that all US troops will be pulling out of Iraq by the end
of 2011 to make good on his predecessor’s arrangement and decisively subscribed
to by his administration after long negotiations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Malik, was a brilliant feat on its own. The Iraq’s
pull out not only surprised critics it dumb founded many of the Republican
leaders that all they could offer was: Obama’s leading from behind strategy hurts
America’s
image. To Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman: “The announcement by President
Obama and Prime Minister Maliki yesterday was a statement of failure, not
success”. A pronouncement to which avid watchers of American Foreign Policy in
the Middle East, understand within the context of where the interest of the former
Vice-Presidential nominee lies and the possible interpretation of some strong
lobbying groups in congress of the new announcement from Obama’s
Administration. In reality, Obama’s announcement sets in motion other variables
in the national politics of a somewhat recalcitrant middle-eastern ally.
Who else could
describe the withdrawal of Americans from arms way in the Middle
East, as a failure, considering where his heart and lobbying money
comes from? Who else could described this very important national interest
decision from the White-House thus: “A failure that puts at greater risk all
that those Americans and Iraqi fought, sacrificed, and in thousand cases, gave
their live to achieve: an Iraq that is self-governing, self-defending, and
aligned with the responsible nation of the world in the fight against Islamist
extremism and terrorism?” Only a Senator who has not only sold his soul to
lobby groups from that part of the world but is known to hold brief cases for
the insurance companies that have doubly helped to destroy the American
economy.
Further, for
those Republicans who are romanticizing that their party would have compelling
foreign policy argument against the President on Russia,
China and Middle
East, I’ll say, good luck! Obama’s Administration has been so successful
in many of its foreign policy decisions that some of us, who are in love with
his style can only wonder, if half what he has accomplish in foreign policy had
defaulted to the national economy, won’t we be popping Champagne Bottles in
celebration of his guaranteed second term in office.
One more thing, look
out Republicans, the sun is shinning on the economy already and come next
November, the President who found and killed Osama Bin Laden and campaigned
heavily to put teachers in the classrooms, fire fighter, police and emergency
personnel on duty, while Republicans fought vehemently to deny him this effort,
will be waiting at the debate table to outperform your close to disastrous
offing as a contestant for the White-House Oval Office! By accomplishing so
much in foreign policy, we believe that the Obama’s Administration successes
will translate to other appreciations that will make voters retain the first
articulate and probably the most reasonable free-world leader in a complex and
dangerous world.
