OBAMA’S ‘NO PRECONDITIONS’ ILLUSION

The first time he goofed on this was during one of the debates with Hillary Clinton. They were asked if they would sit down and talk with the likes of Hugo Chavez(Venezuela), Mahmud Ahmadinejad (Iran) , Fidel Castro(Cuba), Bashar Al- Assad(Syria),Kim Jong Il (North Korea) and their ilk, without preconditions if either him or Hillary is elected President of the United States. Classic of a naïve green horn, he, without thinking, said yes. The more experienced Hillary said no. She went on to describe her opponents position as naïve. The Republican presumptive nominee, John McCain, has also condemned the eloquent first time senator from Illinois, Barak Hussein Obama. for what the Vietnam war veteran tagged naiveté.

Since then, whenever sound minds bring this up, and try to highlight the dangers of such move, Obama will go into wishful thinking, spewing more ignorance spiced with anaphora on matters bordering on foreign policy. He always repeats this to his gullible audience:” John Kennedy said decades ago, lets never negotiate out of fear, but lets never fear to negotiate” However, one thing he never told his camp, or they never asked, is, what happened after that silly move by JFK to meet with then Soviet Union dictator, Nikita Krushchev, in 1961.

Obama even went as low as suggesting that threats from nations like Iran were ’tiny’ compared to what obtained during the cold war. Dumb. His 10 th grader logic was that since Iran’s military might was less than 100 th of the US, we should bother less.

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Obama is always quick to blab” If Bush and McCain have problems with direct diplomacy, led by the President of the United States, then they can explain why they don’t have a problem with JFK because that was what he did with Krushchev.”

But the truth of the matter is, JFK came back with a bloody nose. Several top statesmen like George Kennan, and his secretary of state, Dean Rusk, urged JFK to use low level diplomats to extract some commitments(pre conditions) from Krushchev. But he thought he was playing politics of change and the move fell flat on its face.

At that meeting, the Soviet dictator came down hard on the US and its policies. He used the opportunity to grandstand, get some photo op’s and reaffirmed to the world that America has come begging the Soviet Union. He even cautioned the US against supporting what he called “ old moribund reactionary regimes”

Though JFK’s aides tried reassure the American people back home that their boss was in control, senior diplomats in attendance expressed shock at the effrontery of Krushchev.

Paul Nitze, Asst. Secretary of defense, described the meeting as a disaster. An aide to Krushchev later observed that the American president “ seemed very inexperienced, even immature” Krushchev on his part said “ he (JFK) was too intelligent and too weak”

In an interview with James Reston of the New York Times, JFK said that the meeting had been the “ roughest thing in my life. He (Krushchev) just beat the hell out of me. I’ve got a terrible problem if he thinks I’m inexperienced. And have no guts Until we remove those ideas we wont get anywhere with him”

Two months later the Berlin wall came up followed in the spring with the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

 

By Churchill Umoren