[Hojczyk]

Good article…

[Jack Hammer]

With Obama in the White House, America is not only NOT indispensible, it’s an international irrelevancy and laughing stock.

[Cicero]

Obama: None of the above.

[Fungi]

You reap what you sow with a feckless fool on a hill.

[Twotone]

A good description of Obama’s foreign policy: “...engagement cannot be half-assed. Engaging doesn’t mean telling people you’re going to engage and then screwing them over.”

[wastoute]

With a quarter of Mexico living inside our borders security at home is a lost proposition.

[arthurus]

We ultimately defeated the Soviets, in my view, not through an arms race. We ultimately defeated the Soviets through the power of things like Radio Free Europe, through the ideas that America were standing by.< P>No. We defeated the Soviets by inducing them to use up their resources trying to catch up to a missile efense program they couldn't hope to emulate or counter and which was really 20 years out at the lesat and by supplying them sub rosa with computers they thought they were stealing that were already loaded with errors that caused them to fail at their gas pipe to Europe project and waste even more assets in that direction. Among other things.USSR had a weakening economy and was puffing as it ran and we kept handing them bricks to carry until they gave out. VOA and RFE helped set the stage but they were not decisive."Ideas" were not what pushed the rickety tower over.

[familyop]

"2) adopting a 'moneyball' approach where the US pursues its narrow economic and security interests"

...except when truly needed by at least one NATO nation.