Amid the utter collapse of President Obama’s “lead form behind” foreign policy, the nation can see Mitt Romney’s 2012 assessment of Russia as the top geopolitical threat vindicated. During the third presidential debate, President Obama took Romney to task stating that the Cold War was over and his ideology was backwards thinking. Romney had stated on the campaign trail that Russia would seize the Crimea if the US did not project strength.
It turns out Romney was right. Back in 2008, GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin stated that Russia’s attack on Georgia was proof enough that if the US did not act with strength, the Kremlin would invade the Ukraine.
That said, political satirist Stephen Colbert used his show yesterday to mock Fox & Friends co-star Brian Kilmeade for asking aloud where was the US leadership on the growing threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Kilmeade pointed out that Germany was showing leadership. Would it be too much to ask for the United States to do the same? Colbert twisted Kilmeade’s words to infer that Kilmeade was suggesting that a foreign head of state such as German chancellor Andrea Merkel lead the United States. Along that line of thinking, he belittled Germany’s leadership by framing it in a World War II NAZI context.
Colbert then went on to suggest that the nation might be better off if fictional Netflix characters from “Orange is the New Black” and “House of Cards” were to run the government. It should be noted that Colbert’s anti-conservative rants are something he admitted he will not be able to do after he takes over for David Letterman on the “Late Show”.