"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."~Thucydides
Please support Free Republic
click the pic
Posted on 05/13/2014 5:25:16 AM PDT by Makana
...Why does the Economist magazine put a tethered eagle on its cover, with the plaintive question, "What would America fight for?" Why do Washington Post columnists sympathetic to the administration write pieces like one last week headlined, "Obama tends to create his own foreign policy headaches"?
Clues may be found in the president's selfie with the attractive Danish prime minister at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in December; in State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki in March cheerily holding up a sign with the Twitter TWTR +0.44% hashtag #UnitedForUkraine while giving a thumbs up; or Michelle Obama looking glum last week, holding up another Twitter sign: #BringBackOurGirls. It can be found in the president's petulance in recently saying that if you do not support his (in)action in Ukraine you must want to go to war with Russia—when there are plenty of potentially effective steps available that stop well short of violence. It can be heard in the former NSC spokesman, Thomas Vietor, responding on May 1 to a question on Fox News about the deaths of an American ambassador and three other Americans with the line, "Dude, this was like two years ago."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Comments like yours make me wish we had a LIKE button.
thanx
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."~Thucydides
Please support Free Republic
click the pic
“you will find an uncountable number of articles in the right wing media on this. It is planned and co-ordinated.”
But, is it accurate?
That depends on who you are, or to what foreign policy doctrine you subscribe.
The author of the article you posted, Eliot Cohen, is a high ranking NeoCon. And WSJ is a neocon publication. And generally speaking, the NeoCons dominate the GOP in the foreign policy field.
So if you are a NeoCon, this sound good. But if you are foreign policy Realist, you probably dis-agree. Or if you are an Isolationist(non-interventionist), you probably disagree.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
