Obama's Foreign Policy

Here's some aspects of the way Freshman Barack Obama sees our Foreign Policy:

• In May 08 said that countries like Iran don’t pose a threat to us because they are ‘tiny’ countries, as opposed to USSR back in the 80's.
• Met with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez to discuss Chávez's support of the Marxist FARC guerrillas in Colombia. The next day, in Miami, he insisted any country supporting the FARC should suffer "regional isolation."
• In a debate last July, Mr. Obama pledged to meet, without precondition, the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba. He called President Bush's refusal to meet with them "ridiculous" and a "disgrace. He's claimed, in defense of his position, that John F. Kennedy's 1961 summit with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna was a crucial meeting that led to the end of the Cold War. Not quite. Kennedy himself admitted he was unprepared for Khrushchev's bullying. "He beat the hell out of me," Kennedy confided to advisers. The Soviet leader reported to his Politburo that the American president was weak. Two months later, the Berlin Wall was erected and stood for 28 years. Hillary Clinton believes this policy is “incredibly naïve”. Even she gets it.
  
• Wants to meet with any rogue dictator, but hasn’t meet with General David Petraeus or Amb. Ryan Crocker about success in Iraq after the Surge.
• Obama makes blanket statement against having nuclear weapons at our disposal: "I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance" in Afghanistan or Pakistan, Obama said. He then added that he would not use such weapons in situations "involving civilians." Clinton blasted him for this: "Presidents since the Cold War have used nuclear deterrents to keep the peace, and I don't believe any president should make blanket statements with the regard to use or nonuse," Clinton said.