Obama Tells It Like It Was

In one of his last press conferences December 16, President Obama was very candid about his worries international and national. He seemed to tell it like it is but analyzing what he said, it was more like he was telling it like it was and will never be again. He told President-elect Trump: “ Before having a lot of interactions with foreign governments….he should want his team to be fully briefed on what’s gone on in the past and where the potential pitfalls may be.” For 8 years Obama played the worldwide game just as America played it since it took over world leadership from the British in the 1950s. It penetrated states worldwide and strengthened them internally to be as capitalistic and democratic as possible. This is clearly not necessary anymore. Multinational investments in South America and North America are secure. Japan and China and South Korea dominate Asia and secure it all the way to Iran. Russia is ruled by state-controlled capitalism guided by a dictator. Europe and the English-speaking world are secure and developed. The main place for America to act like “what’s gone on in the past” is Africa but its natural resources have been exploited for centuries and its economic prospects for the future are poor.”What’s gone on in the past” cannot go on in the future because there is no longer any objective need for the American foreign policy of the past. Meanwhile in America, President Obama said, “Everything is under suspicion, and everybody is corrupt, and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all our institutions are, you know, full of malevolent actors.” Since the 1950s, America has been putting the world’s house in order. The American economy is booming. It’s time now for America to put its own house in order and let the rest of the world worry only about what Donald Trump has in mind for it.

Daniel McNeill

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