The Innocents Abroad: Obama's Foreign Policy Is Characterized

AEI ^ | John Bolton

[ventanax5]

Barack Obama's badly flawed worldview and the incoherent foreign policy flowing from it have now disintegrated. Within the past few months, his media acolytes notwithstanding, the evidence has become conclusive: Obama's presidency is gravely wounding America and its friends. His response to virtually every significant threat or crisis has either complicated or worsened the problem, or, at best, left it essentially no closer to resolution.

Obama has repeatedly highlighted his propensity to apologize for America's past transgressions (as he defines them), and his disinclination to be assertive on our behalf. Indeed, so radically different is Obama from any prior American president that many observers have concluded that he has a comprehensive plan, and that somewhere in all that mess there must be a doctrine. Others look not for a plan, but for a plot; pop psychology and conspiracy theories abound as to why Obama is so comfortable, even enthusiastic, about American decline.

[Bitsy]

Obama is so comfortable, even enthusiastic, about American decline.

That will happen over my dead bloody body! Never give up!

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[agere_contra]

Killer quote:

Obama has acted as though the gravest threat there to American interests and international peace and security is Israeli housing construction in the suburbs of Jerusalem.

[SMARTY]

“...a second characteristic predominates: He simply does not see much occurring internationally that threatens American interests. Such a benign view of a chaotic world may be even more shocking than his general lack of interest, but it is yet another reflection of his underlying intellectual laziness. He is most politely described as credulous and inexperienced...”

“O” has had all his views and ideas handed to him pre masticated, as it were, by Bill Ayers, et al.

It is a mistake to expect conviction, original thinking or intellectual enterprise from this guy.

I went to college with people like this. They NEVER read or were expected to read beyond the syllabus... they NEVER read actual works but read reviews and comments, etc. ABOUT actual works. They got the Cliff notes version and you could tell whenever they spoke, their thinking was the product of rote learning, it was shallow and without dimension. But they graduated...good little Liberal Paul parrots. Good at memorizing, and regurgitating the same old BS their Liberal professors spoon fed them.

[Iron Munro]

[fhayek]

I always thought that Obama foreign policy was a little like a poker player showing his hand before the round of betting. Some of his first acts were to travel abroad and concede how bad America, and that our enemy's grievances against us had some merit. All I could think was that, some day, when we have to negotiate with these countries, we would have no political capital, no moral authority to bring to bear. The natural response to our demands would be, "But Mr. Obama, you have already conceded that America is to blame (for whatever).". If you concede moral ground to our enemies before the negations even begin, you sure as hell are going to have a harder time protecting American interests when a crisis hits.

[SJackson]

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[Eleutheria5]

Obama Doctrine: Reward your enemies, destroy your friends, then receive your enemas, and then your term ends.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ventanax5.

[Zero's] badly flawed worldview and the incoherent foreign policy flowing from it have now disintegrated... is gravely wounding America and its friends. His response to virtually every significant threat or crisis has either complicated or worsened the problem, or, at best, left it essentially no closer to resolution.

He doesn't work for us.