Why President Obama Avoided Meeting World Leaders at the United Nations; Column Syndicated Now

Sept. 28, 2012 - PRLog -- Why President Obama Avoided Meeting with World Leaders at the UN
Copyright © Bohdan O. Szuprowicz

It’s really quite simple. World leaders, by and large, have no respect for Obama, and he knows it. Most of the American public may not be aware of this because the media select, filter and practice outright censorship of foreign reports, opinions, and political commentary about Obama ever since he was elected President in 2008.

It’s what the rest of the world thinks about Obama that really counts in foreign affairs. This President knows it and he does not like it. After all he embraced the Nobel Peace Prize forced upon him but now is seen as an apologetic and naive  leader whose indecisions led to unprecedented global unrest and terrorism. Yet by ignoring the foreign leaders he only displays arrogance of power and confirms the beliefs and opinions of the world about himself and of America as a whole.

To start with Americans are hated throughout the world because they are affluent. Period. That’s the basic issue whether you like it or not. The rest of the world are like herds of wild animals struggling for survival and a place in the sun. American foreign policy throws scraps of foreign aid to those predators hoping to turn them into their democratic pets. But it was President Roosevelt who said: “no man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it”. This is as true today as it was during the Pearl Harbor days.

You can get an excellent idea of what the world thinks of America in general and Obama in particular by following an endless flood of foreign political cartoons on this subject. I already researched, compiled, and analyzed political cartoons featuring Obama from numerous foreign sources in over 40 countries ranging from Argentina through China, Cuba, to the UK and Yemen.

Many of such cartoons have never been seen in America because they are considered politically incorrect, insulting, vulgar, racist, or defamatory by the American media. Others are in foreign languages. As a result most Americans have no idea what the world really thinks of them.

Obama’s repeated appeasement postures only earn him disappointment at best but also a lot of disrespect and even disdain and outright contempt. Interestingly Germany was leading the world in welcoming election of Obama as President of the United States in 2008. After seeing his incompetence, naivete, and indecision, eneveloped with ever present apologies the Germans have lost their enthusiasm for the man and their confidence in Obama dropped to eleventh place. This is reflected, more than in any other country, by a flood of very critical and risque Obama cartoons and satirical floats during street carnivals, designed to ridicule Obama and his foreign policy.

Many of the tamer cartoons focus on Obama’s appeasement behaviour extensively. He is shown apologizing to Taliban for the Koran burning incident by kissing an imams behind and you will also find Obama shown bowing to Saudi king unnecessarily. He is also presented in an even lower, almost prostrate position, in front of Emperor Akihito of Japan who asks: “So-is he apologizing for Nagasaki or Hiroshima?” And of course he is shown on his knees in front of China Communist Party leader while in another cartoon he kisses him and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Interestingly communist countries like China, Cuba or North Korea do not ridicule Obama in their state controlled media as ferociously as Germany, Israel, UK, or Brazil and Argentina. There is even an amusing cartoon in which Obama uses the torch of the Statue of Liberty to light the cigar of Fidel Castro who comments that: “at last he does not fear it will explode in his face”.

All this means Obama is not seen or expected to be someone who can draw a red line anywhere. There is even suspicion in some quarters that Obama is prepared to tolerate a nuclear Iran. That would make him the Great Proliferating Appeaser and the world will not forget him for ever.

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About 21st Century Research
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Bohdan O. Szuprowicz, President of 21st Century Research, arrived in the Unites States soon after the Russians launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957. He founded the 21st Century Research consultancy in 1974 and collaborated with Chase Manhattan Bank in setting up a market research operation to evaluate emerging business opportunities in China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He traveled frequently to those areas and crossed Checkpoint Charlie to East Berlin on several occasions. He also toured South Africa to observe apartheid environments and met with independence fighters in Namibia. His work on network planning earned him an invitation to present it at the International Symposium on Operations Research for Developing Countries in Paris.

As a result of his experiences and research into geopolitics, he published “Doing Business with People’s Republic of China” and “How to Avoid Strategic Materials Shortages” with John Wiley & Sons, as well as “How to Invest in Strategic Metals” with St. Martin’s Press. He also published “Multimedia Networking” with McGraw-Hill, which included Japanese and Korean editions and “Multimedia Tools for Managers” developed for AMACOM. Szuprowicz also collaborated for several years with Computer Technology Research, which published corporate reports on Internet and networking technologies.

For several years Szuprowicz was managing editor of several newsletters on Internet technology applications and a columnist for Financial Sentinel, Moneyworld and other magazines. He published “Supergrowth Technology USA,” an investment newsletter, and consulted with many corporations on technology markets. His current research focus is on Nuclear Terror Geopolitics on a worldwide basis.

He also published hundreds of articles in many countries in journals such as Les Affaires, Atlanta Constitution, Australian Financial News, Barron’s Weekly, Bull & Bear, Business South Africa, California Business, Canadian Business, China Business Review, Christian Science Monitor, Computerworld, Datamation, Denver Post, Dun’s Review, Eurofinance, Financial Post, Investment Dealers Digest, IPO Reporter, Japan Economic Journal, Modern Data, National Investment & Finance of India, Newsday, Newsweek International, New Scientist, Oficinas, Polish Daily, Singapore Times, Skrzydlata Polska, Usine Nouvelle, Wall Street Microinvestor, Wall Street Transcript, ZeroUno and many others.

He has been a frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at international conventions, symposia and conferences. He holds a BS degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London. He also did postgraduate work in journalism and management at Columbia University in New York and UCLA in California.

Szuprowicz is an active member of the British Schools and Universities Club, the Schiehallion Club of Kinloch Rannoch, Republican Club of South Sarasota County, Sarasota Fiction Writers, Sarasota Authors Connection, Sarasota Writers Forum, Sarasota Camera Club, Sarasota PC Users Group,  Jacaranda Writers Group, Lake of the Woods Writers, and was previously a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society.