IOW, he got caught with his pants down.
Obama stupidly thought he had done everything in his power to appease the jihadists:
<><> $2 billion funding to the Muslim Brotherhood,
<><> appointing the M/B to key WH positions;
<><> installing a dedicated Muslim outreach program;
<><> changing US law to allow "repentant" terrorists into the USA:
<><> calling Egyptian President al Sisi to leave the M/B alone
(al Sisi refused to take Obama's call and decimated the M/B).
<><> Obama/Hillary's "Kumbaya" deal in Benghazi---that went awry when four Americans were slaughtered.
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Ovama's "strategy" is a cockamamie prog/lib "Smart Power" tactic---wherein being nice to your enemies is considered better than the Republican way---waging war against them.
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Of course Obama's not "fighting terrorists"---he's inviting them into our communities.
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"SMART POWER"--is a Bush slapdown---a term coined by Hillary----which serves to magnify Obama's careening and incomprehensible foreign policy (or lack thereof). Obama's outed himself again..... as naive, isolated, incompetent and outlandishly stupid.
Not to forget (1) the abysmally stupid Susan Rice.... (2) Hillary's All-Girl State Dept, and the cipher known as John Kerry.....all of whom had a hand in the "Smart Power" debacle.
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Democrats' 'Smart Power' Lies in Ruins; Suddenly
Realizing What They Miscalculated About the World:
National Review | Sept 3, 2013 | Jim Geraghty / FR Posted by kristinn
....... Democrats are suddenly realizing that their foreign policy brain-trust completely misjudged the world.
Being nicer to countries like Russia will not make them nicer to you. The United Nations is not an effective tool for resolving crises. Some foreign leaders are beyond persuasion and diplomacy. There is no “international community” ready to work together to solve problems, and there probably never will be.
You can pin this on Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Susan Rice, but most of all, the buck stops with the president. Those of us who scoffed a bit at a state senator ascending to the presidency within four years on a wave of media hype and adoration are not quite so shocked by this current mess.
We never bought into this notion that getting greater cooperation from our allies, and less hostility from our enemies, was just a matter of giving this crew the wheel and letting them practice, as Hillary Clinton arrogantly declared it, “smart power” (and fronted Time magazine cover).
(These people can’t even label a foreign policy approach without reminding us of how highly they think of themselves.)
They looked out at the world at the end of the Bush years, and didn’t see tough decisions, unsolvable problems, unstable institutions, restless populations, technology enabling the impulse to destabilize existing institutions, evil men hungry for more power, and difficult trade-offs.
No, our problems and challengers were just a matter of the previous hands running U.S. foreign policy not being smart enough. (Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...