Nobody Remembers Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Warning About Weak Foriegn Policy

Nobody Remembers

While we all sit and watch Putin invade the Ukraine, with stated plans to overtake other parts of old Russia, Obama makes fluffy speeches. Obama has made it known, Putin can do just about anything he wants. So can Iran. Obama’s new foreign policy is: America is just going to play golf. You guys go ahead and we’ll stay out of it.

Is taking America off the world stage going to work? Will the tyrants of the world leave us alone, if we let them take over other countries?

According to Dwight D. Eisenhower, it’s a sure recipe for war.

And so, Nobody Remembers a speech that Dwight D. Eisenhower gave to the American people on March 29th, 1952, when he was running for President.

Eisenhower ran on three issues: Korea, Communism and corruption.

From Wikipedia:

He defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a landslide, with an electoral margin of 442 to 89, marking the first Republican return to the White House in 20 years. In the election he also brought with him a Republican majority in the House (by eight votes) and in the Senate (actually a tie, with Nixon providing the majority vote).

(Proving that real conservatives win elections.)

Below are a few examples from that speech. Eisenhower was one of greatest generals in world history, and reading it will make you wonder..how in the world did America fall so low with Obama?  Who, if you listen to Eisenhower, will lead us all into WWIII.

Remember, in 1952, we were at war with North Korea:

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

“There is a Korean War—and we are fighting it for the simplest of reasons: Because free leadership failed to check and to turn back Communist ambition before it savagely attacked us. The Korean War, more perhaps than any other war in history simply and swiftly followed the collapse of our political defenses. There is no other reason than this. We failed to read and to outwit the totalitarian mind.

World War II should have taught us all one lesson. The lesson is this: To vacillate, to hesitate—to appease even by merely betraying unsteady purpose—is to feed a dictator’s appetite for conquest and to invite war itself. That lesson—which should have firmly guided every great decision of our leadership through these later years…was ignored in the development of the administration’s policies for Asia since the end of World War II. Because it was ignored, the record of these policies is a record of appalling failure.

Already along the 38th Parallel aggression is speaking with the too familiar voices of howitzers   and cannons. our position is untenable and indefensible. The House should be aware of this.

These words of eloquent, reasoned warning were spoken about eleven months before the Korean War broke.

What a tragedy that the administration shrugged off that so accurate warning!

The armies of communism thus informed began their big build-up. Six months later they were ready to strike across the 18th Parallel. They struck on June 25, 1950. On that day, the record of political and diplomatic failure of this administration was completed and sealed.

Programs along at least two lines can instantly begin. We can, first, step up the program of training and arming the South Korean forces.

We can secondly shape our psychological warfare program into a weapon capable of cracking the Communist front.

The vital lesson is this: To vacillate, to appease, to placate is only to invite war–vaster war, bloodier war. In the words of the late Senator Vandenberg, appeasement is not the road to peace: it is only surrender on the installment plan.

I will always reject appeasement.

“A nations foreign policy is a much graver matter than rustling papers and bustling conferences. It is much more than diplomatic decisions and trade treaties and military arraignments. A foreign policy is the face and voice of a whole people. It is all that the world sees and hears and understand about a single nation. It expresses the character and the faith and the will of that nation. In this, a nation is like any individual of our personal acquaintance: the simplest gesture can betray hesitation or weakness, the merest inflection of voice can reveal doubt or fear. It is in this deep sense that our foreign policy had faltered and failed. “

I don’t know about you..but that last paragraph is chilling close to the Obama administration.

So, if you go by Eisenhower’s convictions: Obama’s handling of our foreign affairs in the world, will lead us all into the bloodiest war every fought. But…nobody reads history anymore…do they?

April 17, 2014 Posted by Joyanna Adams | American History, Uncategorized, War | History, Obama, Wars | Leave a comment