http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/no-american-weakness-didnt-encourage-putin-to-invade-ukraine/284168/
republicans rank weakness by how many wars you keep us out of, like Beohner said "we ought to be judged by how many laws we repealed" that is backwards and nothing to be proud of.
If you’ve listened to President Obama’s critics in recent days, you’ve almost certainly heard two claims. First, that under Obama, America is in retreat around the world. Second, that America’s retreat emboldened Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.Let’s take the second claim first. Obama’s critics differ as to which moment of White House fecklessness spurred Putin to act. “Ever since the [Obama] administration threw themselves in [Putin’s] arms in Syria … I think he’s seen weakness.These are the consequences,” insists Tennessee Senator Bob Corker. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, by contrast, suggests, “The big one that started this was the absolute retreat on our missile defense system in Poland and Czechoslovakia.” Either way, there’s a causation problem.If it was Obama’s weakness—in the Middle East or Eastern Europe—that encouraged the Russian president to invade Ukraine, then how do Corker and Rogers explain Putin’s decision to do something similar in Georgia in 2008, back when George W. Bush was president?
back to subtly saying only they can protect us from the bad world except they forget their wars of choice that were lost and not paid for by them while saying they don't want to leave debt for their children,
but if not for Pres. isn't that exactly what they did, and Bush's ignoring of impending attack by Bin Laden could have made it worse than it might have been if he had been a leader?
Which brings us to assertion number one. It’s true that the Obama administration has withdrawn troops from Iraq and is withdrawing them from Afghanistan. But from where Putin sits, American power hardly seems in retreat. From his perspective, in fact, the reverse is likely much closer to the truth.To understand why, it’s worth casting one’s gaze back a couple of decades. Under Ronald Reagan, the frontier of American power in Europe was Berlin. Then, in February 1990, as East Germany began wobbling, Secretary of State James Baker journeyed to Moscow to discuss German unification.According to James Goldgeier, author of Not Whether But When, the definitive history of NATO expansion, Baker promised Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that if the Soviets allowed Germany to reunify, NATO—the U.S.-led Western military alliance that took form after World War II—would not expand “one inch” further east,not even into the former East Germany itself. But as the year progressed, the White House developed different ideas, and by the fall it was clear that a unified Germany would enter NATO, no matter what the Russians thought.
republican plan to make Pres. look weak and "leading from the rear cracks only serve to show their green eyed sour grapes they did not want him in the big chair but since he's been there yes we are better off than we were 5 years ago, no there have been no attacks on our soil like it was on their watch. 5 years ago hemorrhaging 750 million jobs a month and they sat 100 thousand + is abysmal they really are bad at math.
when you here outrageous claims just note myself and others as well as the news cycle report more on right wing dastardly deeds and inaction as well as the actions that suppress American citizens, in short twice as many negative articles, and the one's you hear about Progressives are 90% republican lies
