We're now 14 months in to the Obama presidency and we still haven't seen a national security strategy, or the results of the QDDR process - just a QDR that continues the US reliance on military power and the overly broad definition of US global interests.
National Security Strategy overdue ping.
I wonder what he thinks she's done successfully?
"You have John Brennan saying back in August that we need to get away from the jihadist terror fixation that defined the Bush years..."
If you want your country’s enemies to win, you don’t need a strategy.
The article is utter rubbish.
There was no “tumult” in foreign policy during the Bush years, Hillary was not reluctant to engage “non-governmental power centers in Pakistan” (read: Taliban), 0bama doesn’t have smart/competent people running his foreign policy (save for Petraeus with our military!), etc.
What, we have a QDR but no QDDR?! Gasp, the horrors!
Bunch of freakin’ wankers at the State Department...
Obama has tried to destabilize Honduras and deliver it Chavez and Ortega. He broke an ABM deal with Poland on the anniversary of their invasion by Stalin. In the face of mainstream pro-democracy uprisings in Iran he refuses “to meddle.” He treats the Dali Lama like a leper. It takes him 100 days to decide if he should reinforce Afghanistan. He tries to ignore the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demolition. He refuses to step foot in Israel. He snubs and insults the UK at every opportunity. He bows, curtsys, bends over, apologizes, and bad-mouths his “cowboy” predecessor all over the world. Whoever he listens to on the National Security Council ain't the right guy.
“strategic thinker”????
I’d settle for a little common sense at this point.
"If we grant amnesty to all of the illegal aliens, I can get re-elected."
Well, at least now we know Huma is still on board.
It was very striking, for example, that the article recounted the experience of a young State Department FSO who was pushing the idea of engaging with "non-governmental power centers in Pakistan" while Clinton expressed skepticism. The story has a happy ending as the FSO was promoted, but the fact that the Sec State didn't agree about the importance of this issue is surprising. At a time when non-state actors are rising in importance
The essence of UN lobal governance is using NGO agents of an international financial elite to manage a planet of dependents. It may look benevolent, but it is anti-freedom.