The Obama Bucket List: Cuba, Vietnam and Hiroshima

Lame Duck POTUS Barack Hussein Obama has been celebrating his final months as United States President in rather ...surprising? Leftist? radical ways.

It's hard for any American of my generation to imagine a United States President having an official state visit to Cuba and meeting Raúl Castro. But Obama has changed the relationship between the USA and Cuba a complete 180 degrees.

Barack Obama and Raúl CastroNicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Another shocker for me, at least, is Obama's visit to Vietnam. When I left the United States it was at war in Vietnam.

Luong Thai Linh—Pool/AP

Maybe I've missed something, but I can't figure out how those countries changed sufficiently to cause a United States President to grin and glow like a winner of a gazillion dollar lottery.

And POTUS Obama's opening statement in Japan shows just how disengaged he is from American history:

Upon his arrival Thursday in Japan, Obama called the world's first nuclear attack, on Aug. 6, 1945, "an inflection point in modern history," telling reporters at a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: "It is something that all of us have had to deal with in one way or another." (nbcnews.com)

Yes, he sounds like the radical Leftist he was raised to be by his mother.

NYPost.com

After Obama, the United States will never be the same. No doubt that is why Donald Trump is now leading in the polls had to head against Hillary Clinton! If you are among those who don't like it, you can blame it on Barack Hussein Obama!

The World is in Danger! Bad "Deals" mean Bad News!!

United States President Barack Hussein Obama is a young man. I'm old. I'm almost old enough to be his mother. OK, not quite but he certainly is a different generation from me. I grew up watching the news and reading newspapers. I remember things that are from history books for his generation. This, besides lots of other things, gives me a very different perspective on what is happening in the world.

I may have lost (misplaced) my new kosher for Passover toothbrush and toothpaste, which are easy to replace, but I'll never forget the overconfidence and complete misreading of the threat and effectiveness of the Vietcong versus the well-equipped modern American armed forces. Those scrappy ill-equipped guerrilla-fighters defeated the Americans in more ways than one.

So when I see headlines like "Obama: Iran Can’t Fight Us, Iran: Death to America,"

“Iran’s defense budget is $30 billion. Our defense budget is closer to $600 billion,” Obama tells Thomas Friedman. “Iran understands that they cannot fight us.” (Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Mag)

I have no doubt that the United States is in big trouble. To me this is a major case of deja vu. Is Obama really too young, or just too closed-minded, to remember the scenes of the Americans fleeing Vietnam?

To think that the USA is so foolish that it hasn't learned anything is truly frightening. The entire world is in danger because of this ridiculous "deal!"

Egypt- Ruled by The Mobs, Rioters Rule

That so-called "wonderful Arab Spring"  by political pundits like United States President Barack Hussein Obama has taken off its mask and is proving to be pure anarchy in Egypt.

Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times

CAIRO — Egypt’s military officers removed the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on Wednesday, suspended the Constitution and installed an interim government presided over by a senior jurist.

Let's call this a dark day for world peace.  One has to be more than delusional to believe that the sacking of elected President Morsi is a benign show of Egyptian democracy.

BBC

Egypt's army has removed President Mohammed Morsi from power, suspended the constitution and pledged new elections following mass protests. The army chief announced the move in a TV address. The head of the constitutional court is expected to be sworn in as interim leader on Thursday. Mr Morsi's supporters denounced the move as a military coup and said he was being held in detention.  

No doubt that things will only get worse in Egypt and other Arab countries.  It's important to remember that when a nation does not have a history, culture or tradition of democracy, it's terribly difficult to suddenly develop it.  Imposing democracy and western values and procedures on a country that never, ever lived in such ways  is dangerous and foolish, totally unrealistic.

The United States hasn't learned its lesson, neither from Vietnam, nor from Iraq and the entire Israeli "peace process/negotiations" is based on the very same fallacy, that you can turn a bunch of terrorists into law-abiding, peaceful citizens of a democratic country.

I'm a realist, a pragmatist, I wasn't impressed by any of the "Arab springs," and I'm certainly not impressed or reassured by this latest change of leadership in Egypt.  It's simply the rule of the mob.  It's dangerous and it can be very contagious. I hope the world is ready, but hoping is a rather useless emotion.  Good luck everyone.