Posted on 08/10/2013 5:08:23 PM PDT by opentalk
Having declared an end to the War on Terror, the US president no longer has any clear idea of his country's global role
The West can no longer rely on American leadership in the world. For the remaining duration of the Obama administration, Washington’s judgment and effectiveness in foreign policy cannot be trusted. It is quite an achievement for the one remaining superpower to appear as ineffectual and wrong-footed as the United States has managed to do in the past week. But there it is. The president’s global strategy in his second term was based on two resounding premises. First, alQaeda was “on the run” having been smashed by the killing of Osama bin Laden and the successful US drone operations in Pakistan: in May, Mr Obama gave a triumphal speech in which he declared the War on Terror officially over.
… This clarification was followed shortly by the evacuation of diplomatic staff from Lahore in Pakistan due to – a specific terrorist threat. In his most recent comment, Mr Obama rephrased his dismissal of the Islamist forces: al-Qaeda may not be “on the run” but it is “on its heels”. (Meaning: still facing forward and able to fight?) More confusingly still, Mr Obama is apparently determined to return some Guantánamo prisoners to Yemen, where they will presumably add to the dangerous mix of jihadi terrorists.
The questions remain: is the US “at war” with global jihad or isn’t it? It is now engaged in drone attacks on Yemen, whose government is repeatedly declaring victory over the local al-Qaeda branch. What precisely is America’s role in this, if not as part of an international “War on Terror”?
… The second plank of the Obama global plan was that America’s contentious relationship with Russia would be “re-set”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I nominate this headline for the 2013 Understatement of the Year award, aka the "Duh" award.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Foreign policy? What foreign policy? We close our embassy missions, they open the UN and mosques over here. There, it’s home now, not.
It’s like Bush in more overt: kill one here today, promise them the future in exchange, surrendering to it as the “Religion of Peace”.
And Ho Chi Minh was inspired by Thomas Jefferson.
If the republicans gain the senate in 2014 by two, Graham and McCain would switch parties - for sure
obama not to be trusted, period.
Go ahead nobama, won't make a bit of difference.
How can one man be so dense?
Sending money to his and the Mooch’s bank accounts.
Impeachment File on Communist, Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
“The second plank of the Obama global plan was that America’s contentious relationship with Russia would be “re-set”....”
I respect Putin. I see Obama as a maggot.
Wrong.
Barqi can absolutely be trusted to further the agenda of Wahabbist Islamists in all foreign policy decisions.
And that is a fact!!!
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