President Obama refuses to see the folly of his foreign policy approach. Appeasement of our enemies combined with military cutbacks will have the same disastrous outcome like every other time in history it was tried. The Neville Chamberlains in the Obama administration believe that all you need to do is sit down with your adversaries, listen to their grievances, make concessions, and peace will follow. It’s a nice idea, but rarely works, without backing up negotiations with the possibility of force, and the will to use it, or else every agreement can be broken without consequence.

Is a softer approach justified given current events? North Korea recently launched a missile over Japan in an unprovoked show of force. Iran is moving at full speed to acquire a nuclear weapon, with a leader who publicly announced his desire to see Israel destroyed, as well as America. Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Taliban in Pakistan, said the next attack would be in the heart of American power: “Not in Afghanistan, but in Washington, which will amaze the entire world.” Russia is rearming itself and bullying former soviet bloc nations, while supplying Iran with nuclear technology. Pirates from Somalia brazenly attack shipping vessels, etc.

Then we see Obama hugging and greeting, like old friends, rabidly anti-American Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez has embraced Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir and proudly calls them friends. Obama also intends to lift some Cuban sanctions in an effort to herald a new openness with the Castro regime. Cuba is a one party system with no freedom of speech, a secret police, no free elections, no media freedom, and no labor freedom. Much the same as what Obama and the political left in America would like to see here undoubtedly.

In the meantime our Department of Homeland Security is busy watching the most loyal and patriotic citizens as being potential ‘threats’ to America. How ironic that they look outside the government for threats to America when the real threats are in the government. The president himself has close alliances and friendships with terrorists like Bill Ayers and other radicals, but is the DHS watching Obama?

If that wasn’t bad enough, the DHS has dropped ‘war on terror’ and ‘terrorist attack’ from its vocabulary, and instead uses “overseas contingency operations” and “man-caused disasters”. No more “unlawful enemy combatants” in Guantanamo Bay, only “detainees”. It is ludicrous to believe that merely changing the terminology will somehow change the reality.

Obama will only embolden our enemies with his hate-America-first world tour, and thus justify in the minds of our enemies that America deserves to be attacked. Unilaterally apologizing for America’s sins, almost never put into any historical context, only makes us look weak and unsure of ourselves. None of Obama’s groveling apologies will stop Iran from going nuclear, nor stop the North Korean missile program. Venezuela is allying with Iran and Russia, all of whom are strengthening their world influence, which often goes against ours. Cuba is also strengthening its ties to Iran and Russia, and just last December Russian warships docked for the first time in Cuba since the cold war.

The rest of the world may temporarily like us better because there isn’t a ‘cowboy’ in the White House, but it won’t last long. In an off-the-record critique of Obama’s performance, even France’s President Sarkozy called him “Weak, inexperienced, and badly briefed.” Obama says he wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons, which sounds like a very noble idea. However, how do you trust other nations to keep their word? The Clinton-Carter deal with North Korea, who promised to abandon their nuclear weapons program in return for billions in aid, lied to us by having a secret program all along. Obama’s foolishly naïve and irresponsible actions are that of an ideologue, and will do much more harm than good.