Obama heads for foreign policy disaster (putting it mildly)

The Week Magazine ^ | 9/17/09 | David Frum

[teddyballgame]

Ernest Hemingway offered a memorable description of the experience of going broke: it occurs at first very slowly, then all at once. The Obama foreign policy remains as yet in the "very slowly" stage. But the ultimate destination to which it is trending has already come into sight.

AFGHANISTAN. George W. Bush took a lot of criticism for cutting taxes at the beginning of the prior administration's wars. What are we to say about President Obama cutting military spending at the beginning of his? Senior military commanders are pressing for more troops. The civilian overseers of the Department of Defense are resisting. And Democrats in Congress are already eying the exits.

[RobinOfKingston]

For eight years the democrat version of policy was to run opposite of GWBush. They can't break the habit now.

While Georgie has much to be humble for, the democrats are finding themselves in some pretty hazardous terra incognita.

[autumnraine]

“That confidence continues to flourish despite a lack of positive results. Given present trends, it is unlikely to bow to lessons even from seriously negative consequences.”

In other words, he is as we have been saying all along, a narcissistic sociopath and we will ALL suffer the consequences.