Cantor makes some excellent points. We should never give up our ability to negotiate from a position of strength. We should aslo never deal with a terrorist state. The leaders of Iran continue to export terror and hate while the obama administration and the u.n. continue to do nothing. When Iran is able to produce nuclear weapons, the entire world should be scared. Does obama really think that he will be able to control a nuclear Iran? Does is overblown ego actually let him imagine that?
Cantor pointed out that "conservatives" need to win in 2010. That is also an excellent point. Many people who fly the republican flag are far, far from being what many consider to be a real republican. We need to be sure to call these fakes out as being what they really are, republicans in name only (RINO). But like any good politician, they will sway with the political winds, but voting records and YouTube videos speak volumes about the true character of a candidate.
From AFP
WASHINGTON — A top US Republican lawmaker on Tuesday made a sweeping election-year attack on President Barack Obama's foreign policy, blasting a landmark nuclear cuts treaty with Russia and efforts to engage Iran.
With six months before November mid-term elections, Representative Eric Cantor urged US voters to back Republicans at "a pivotal time for America to restore its credibility by pursuing peace through strength."
"That's why conservatives must win in 2010. And when we retake Congress we will stand with defense-minded Democrats to stop the hemorrhaging of America's defenses," said Cantor, the number two House of Representatives Republican.
Cantor delivered the broadside in remarks prepared for delivery to the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington. AFP obtained excerpts of the speech.
The Virginia lawmaker vowed that "a Republican Congress will turn back harmful treaties like START," which Obama signed in April and now faces a ratification test in the sharply divided US Senate.
Cantor praised Obama for not seeking an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan and for "behind the scenes" victories against Al-Qaeda, notably through strikes by unmanned drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
But he sharply assailed Obama's efforts to polish the US image in the Muslim world, tarnished under predecessor George W. Bush by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan amid a lack of progress in talks to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The lawmaker, the only Jewish Republican in the US Congress, said Obama should not "pick fights" with Israel -- a reference to spats over new settlement construction in Jerusalem -- and condemned outreach to Iran.
"What has engagement with Iran brought us?" he asked. "US calls for dialogue with the regime only strengthened Tehran's hand. It's no wonder Iran blithely continues to export terrorism and oppress its people with impunity."
Cantor, who said a similar approach with Syria had also failed, attacked Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo to reset Washington's relationship with the Muslim world, saying: "What does America have to be sorry for?"
The lawmaker also assailed Obama's handling of terrorism, citing growing complacency amid "warning signs" in the failed attacks against a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day and in Times Square over the weekend.
Cantor complained that the public "goes on heightened alert" after such incidents for "hours and days rather than permanently" and that Obama aides "tend to give these warnings due attention only in limited spurts."
"As a result, America is at risk of slipping into the type of false sense of security which prevailed before that September morning," he said, referring to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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