0bama's foreign policy shop is, after all, headed by She Who Must Not Be Named, so hearing her bellyache about it strikes me as a little rich. But it isn't anything we haven't pointed out on FR from day one, when of all people on the planet, Zbigniew Brzezinski was trotted out as a "realist" and a lynchpin of a set of policies that are being called Carteresque for a very good reason.
I do think SWMNBN would have made a very good Vice President on the Darth Cheney model but she'd have had to possess the invaluable and difficult-to-master ability to subordinate and I don't think there's room in the Fun House for more than one ego that bloated. Try to imagine going rogue on your boss, though, and having to sit in a meeting under that basilisk gaze. Van Jones would be peeing his tailored trousers. And let's face it, the only difference between Cheney's dove hunt and Hil's little trip to Fort Marcy Park is that Cheney's bud lived to tell the tale.
But no, SWMNBN is now slotted into a position for which she is nearly perfectly unqualified unless one counts exchanging air kisses with Mrs. Arafat, and God help the poor bacterium caught between those two epidermises. 0bama's foreign policy consists of precisely one dictum: ignore it and it will go away, and if it doesn't, blame Bush. There are cases, Libya being one, where this might not be bad because after all, the only winner when two scorpions are in a bottle is the guy placing the lucky wager. But it certainly isn't anything on which to bet the safety of the country, because most of the time things don't go away. Mad Mo triumphant doesn't solve any problems, it only puts them off, but for someone as disengaged and incompetent as The 0ne, that's good enough. There'll always be the next guy to blame.
It's not. Obama and his group of toadies runs foreign policy -- or, actually, don't run it, since they never actually decide anything. Anything they don't agree with, they'll shut down.
Obama's rather egregious barbs about her at the Gridiron Club dinner are as much proof of a policy split between them, as they are that Obama's an asshole in addition to being a narcissistic incompetent.