By Paul Bedard Posted: June 29, 2010
Liz Cheney, fast becoming the conservatives' leading voice on foreign policy, is stepping up her assault on the Obama administration, charging that the president and his team are apologizing when they should be raising an iron fist.
In her latest critique, given at an event to praise the "Manhattan Seven" who beat back the administration's bid to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City, she said, "The last seventeen months, sadly, have been a period of drift and confusion for the country.
And it seems to me clearer and clearer that the Obama doctrine has three prongs. Apologize for America. Abandon our allies. And appease our enemies."
Addressing the Center for Security Policy last week, she added: "Not even halfway into the Obama administration, there are some very grave challenges that have gotten worse. And our friends and our adversaries around the world are unfortunately sensing weakness."
A former State Department official in the Bush administration, Cheney is currently helping her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, write his memoirs.
She has been mentioned in Virginia GOP circles as a potential House or Senate candidate, possibly a challenger to Democratic Sen. Jim Webb who's up for reelection in 2012.
Cheney recently helped start Keep America Safe, boosting her voice on U.S. policy. But it's her closeness to her father and her view on foreign policy that give weight to her new comments, some of which were even sharper than the former vice president's.
Reviewing the president's policies around the world, Cheney—in the New York speech that was ignored in the media—said Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was right during the 2008 Democratic primary election when she warned in an about the president's limited experience in an attack ad.
Her pet peeves:
--On Israel, she accused the administration of a "shabby" treatment of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Of course, Hillary Clinton is the Secreatry of State and her expertise at the State Department is highly regarded.
--On Iran, Cheney said the administration is relying too much on sanctions to stop Tehran's nuclear program.
--She decried the administration's cancellation of a missile shield to be placed in Poland the Czech Republic. "It is more dangerous to be America's friend than it is to be America's enemy," she said.
Rightardia comment: The Obama foreign policy is working quite well. We are building a relationship with Russia who was an ally in World War 2. Any anti-missile systems in Eastern Europe would have made rapprochement with Russia impossible. The Russians have also allowed the US to overfly Russia to Afghanistan.
Israel has been more trouble than it is worth to have this country as an ally. Israle has become an impediment to Middle Eastern peace and Obama is wise to keep the government of Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu at arm's length.
The Iranian nuclear program threatens Israel's monopoly of nuclear weapons in the Middle east. Iran does not pose a direct threat to the US. The Iranian situation is similar to the trumped up threat the Bush administration created to attack Iraq.
The only hope for Middle East peace are big changes in the Israeli government. Until then, Obama should not waste time with Netanyahu.
Liz Cheney is a far right ideologue. It is not surprising she would take issue with Obama foreign policy. Obama must have impressed someone or he would not have won the Noble Peace Prize.
source: Washington Whispers
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