Berry's Blog
The Need To Stand By Our Allies
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged to strengthen our nation’s relationships with our allies abroad. Unfortunately, as President, he has done precisely the opposite.
His administration has undermined our special relationship with the United Kingdom through a series of slights, such as taking Argentina’s side in a recent dispute over the Falkland Islands. He has brought our relationship with Israel to its lowest point in decades by completely overreacting to the announcement of Israeli housing construction in Jerusalem. He has hung the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic out to dry on the issue of missile defense. He has failed to press for approval of the free trade agreement with Colombia, our strongest ally in Latin America. He has neglected our vital relationship with India. And he abandoned our friends in Honduras in order to come to the defense of a Hugo Chavez wannabe in that country.
It is time for us to return to a foreign policy where we stand by our friends and stand up to our adversaries. Because if we don’t, the United States surely will have fewer friends and more adversaries in the future.
