Female Foreign Policy

Women are the future
All the big revelations. . .
I dont wanna talk about wars between nations
Not right now

--U2, “Get on Your Boots”

Victor Davis Hanson, among others, is saying “enough” to the Obama administration’s repeated bad mouthing to foreign audiences of Bush and his “mistakes”. What is it with the new people? You won, now govern, and govern by being tough on bad people, and kind to fellow Americans when addressing foreigners. Right?

The intellectuals who run the Democratic party advocate a female foreign policy. Democrats are the party of women and minorities. The party’s enemy are macho, muscle-brained warriors who fight senseless wars overseas that drain resources needed to help folks at home. Masculine means fighting for a cause greater than yourself, maybe in the name of God. Masculine means making your own way at home, being willing to compete in an economy where success is its own reward, and failure teaches lessons that can produce future success. Men were farmers, steelworkers, small businessmen, soldiers. Now they are often lost, unemployed, in prison.

Today, women make up half the workforce. They tend to work for government, for non profits, to be paid to care for others. They believe government exists in part to rebalance the country away from the men who previously enslaved women through custom and law. Women tend to be pacifists who believe wars start not overseas, but within clubrooms at home—begun by men who want war. These women believe men find enemies overseas that a) don’t really exist, or b) are so weak they should be ignored.

During the Bush years, the female-dominated Democratic party and the media found allies in the war-weary nations of Western Europe. To me, Jacques Chirac and his friend Gerhard Schroeder, the French and German leaders at the time we liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein, were bad men. Chirac knew French businesses were taking money from Saddam that was supposed to feed the Iraqi people, and selling Saddam weapons instead. Schroeder traded on anti-Americanism (anti-Bush sentiment) by opposing intervention in Iraq in 2002 to help win an election he was expected to lose. Democrats and the media, looking abroad for support for their anti-war views, jumped on the Chirac-Schroeder bandwagon.

Now Europe has changed. Iraq has changed. Terrorism still threatens us. We need a masculine foreign policy with masculine allies in Europe to deal with the Afghanistan-Pakistan area and Iran. Bad timing for a Democratic-feminist foreign policy.