Posted on 09/15/2009 1:13:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
US Foreign Policy: 'No We Can't'?
By Paul Reynolds BBC News, World Affairs correspondent
President Obama has been seeking out new ways of engaging other countries
Stand by for some new buzz phrases to describe what is going on in international relations as the first year of the Obama administration unfolds.
"Bundles of co-operation", "coalitions of the relevant" and "minilateralism" are some key ones. "Engagement" is another.
This new jargon is used as a kind of shorthand to portray the reinvigorated form of diplomacy that the United States is now pursuing, as it moves from being the only superpower to being the main player in a game in which others take part.
The phrases are used in the latest edition of the annual Strategic Survey, issued by the London think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
In analysing how a "weakened" United States should lower its sights and try to form regional groupings to help it, the IISS Director General Dr John Chipman said: "Domestically, [President] Obama may have campaigned on the theme 'yes we can'; internationally he may increasingly have to argue 'no we can't'".
Iran is likely to test the theory of 'no drama Obama'
Another IISS analyst transferred a campaign description of Barack Obama into the foreign field and said he might become known as "no drama Obama".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
“new jargon is used as a kind of shorthand to portray the reinvigorated form of diplomacy”
It’s just jargon to disguise the massive failure of his foreign policy.
That SOB is bent on destroying our nation inside and out. With every fiber of my being, I hate that ba*tard.
Unfortunately this was entirely predictable, and indeed predicted by many.
more like an empty “Jiffy-Pop” popcorn pan.
America’s founders realized the only real protection from someone who wanted to take over WAS THE PEOPLE. They said it many times in the Federalist Papers and in many famous quotes.
For way too long we have sat complacent while the prison was built around us.
The founders realized there was no government structure which could prevent tyranny from within — And the only thing that prevented a tyrannical executive, the character of the executive. One word you will never associate with Obama.
In my world, “bundles of cooperation” are infants who finally begin sleeping through the night. Our government has been handed over to weenies.
At least most of you had a chance to live in America. Obama is going to take us out before I get a chance (I’m still in High School.) At least from what I can see, a lot of people my age are beginning to realize that Obama is bankrupting us in the future.
Correct, Obama ran on the Realist/Pragmatist foreign policy doctrine, and his foreign policy goals were endorsed by many republican Realists. Can you recall which Republican Realist actually voted for Obama? Colin Powell.
OTOH, McCain ran on the NeoCon foreign policy doctrine and lost. Can you recall which republican Realist, who was a paid consultant to the McCain campaign, actually endorsed Obama's plans to negotiate with Iran? Henry Kissinger.
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