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President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy (Washington Post Editorial...)
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Posted on 03/03/2014 5:39:16 AM PST by Sub-Driver

President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy By Editorial Board, Published: March 2

FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which “the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances — these were things of the past. Secretary of State John F. Kerry displayed this mindset on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday when he said, of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, “It’s a 19th century act in the 21st century.”

That’s a nice thought, and we all know what he means. A country’s standing is no longer measured in throw-weight or battalions. The world is too interconnected to break into blocs. A small country that plugs into cyberspace can deliver more prosperity to its people (think Singapore or Estonia) than a giant with natural resources and standing armies.

Unfortunately, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not received the memo on 21st-century behavior. Neither has China’s president, Xi Jinping, who is engaging in gunboat diplomacy against Japan and the weaker nations of Southeast Asia. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is waging a very 20th-century war against his own people, sending helicopters to drop exploding barrels full of screws, nails and other shrapnel onto apartment buildings where families cower in basements. These men will not be deterred by the disapproval of their peers, the weight of world opinion or even disinvestment by Silicon Valley companies. They are concerned primarily with maintaining their holds on power.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoasia; bhoforeignpolicy; bhorussia; bhostatedept; china; soshillary; soskerry; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/03/2014 5:39:16 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

And the Washington Post turns.............maybe.


2 posted on 03/03/2014 5:42:18 AM PST by raisincane (I'm a resident of Realville.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Washington Compost... his whole worthless, pathetic, unaccomplished life has been a fantasy... written by you and the other nazi-esque propogandists.


3 posted on 03/03/2014 5:42:49 AM PST by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Mac daddies entire life is a fantasy or in a more truthful term a giant lie.


4 posted on 03/03/2014 5:44:48 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: Sub-Driver

They have to post one negative to balance the thousands of atta-boys. Now later they can say they editorialized against the abject failure.


5 posted on 03/03/2014 5:45:24 AM PST by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: Sub-Driver

What do you expect from a narcissist who won a Nobel Peace Prize just for being himself?


6 posted on 03/03/2014 5:45:56 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

bingo!

progressives live in a lala land in their head that has nothing to do with reality


7 posted on 03/03/2014 5:46:53 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama set out to reduce the power of the US, and he has achieved it.

And I don’t mean only militarily. He has no support from our (former) allies and no respect from our enemies because he is clearly a shallow, self-obsessed politician who thinks that a phone call from him counts as “diplomacy.” He doesn’t understand this thing about getting allies to go along, supporting allies, being supported by them, having a realistic common goal, etc. He does “diplomacy” just the way he handles the rest of the government, thinking he can do it all by himself with a word or two. What a stupid, stupid man.


8 posted on 03/03/2014 5:47:15 AM PST by livius
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To: Sub-Driver

So is his domestic policy.


9 posted on 03/03/2014 5:47:35 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry pouts so eloquently.


10 posted on 03/03/2014 5:47:59 AM PST by allendale
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To: Sub-Driver
Oh fer' .....

president obama IS a frikkin' fantasy !

11 posted on 03/03/2014 5:48:03 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sure sounds like he lost the Post’s support. Who’s next?


12 posted on 03/03/2014 5:48:36 AM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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13 posted on 03/03/2014 5:50:30 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: raisincane

This is significant because it comes from the editorial board, rather than a token conservative columnist.


14 posted on 03/03/2014 5:52:50 AM PST by Walrus (America died on November 6, 2012 --- RIP)
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To: hoosiermama

“Sure sounds like he lost the Post’s support. Who’s next?”

I wouldn’t bet on it. These are likeminded people - America bashers; Christian haters. Even propagandists have to ‘try’ to make it look good lest they be criticized for biased reporting.


15 posted on 03/03/2014 5:53:50 AM PST by Paulie (Buy local, bank local, exert your influence locally; the left will fold like a cheap suit.)
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To: Sub-Driver
This is not an op-ed column, but an editorial signed by the editorial board. Since it is purported to be from the WASHINGTON POST, I have to look at it with jaundiced eye. There may be something to be read between the lines or maybe a hidden message, encrypted for liberals or it may even be a counterfeit Washington Post editorial page.
But I am having a hard time accepting this at face value.
16 posted on 03/03/2014 5:54:39 AM PST by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: livius

He doesn’t understand what intimidation really means. Don’t make a threat without some backing to it. It’s like making a bet that you don’t have much of a chance of winning at a Poker Game, or being a pathetic bluff.


17 posted on 03/03/2014 5:56:11 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Sub-Driver

The Washington Compost did everything it could to put Obama into office and support him. He’s was THEIR fantasy.


18 posted on 03/03/2014 5:56:33 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Sub-Driver
The fantasy is called Marxism, with the notion that a weaker America would mean better opportunities for other countries.
All his Advisors/Handlers live in the same ideological fog.
Putin and Xi Jinping are professionals while 0bama after 5 years in office still acts like an amateur on the world stage.
He has not grown or learned anything.

19 posted on 03/03/2014 5:56:47 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: BitWielder1

The odumbo years in Washington have all been “fantasy” but unfortunately for the rest of us, it has all been real, a real disaster.


20 posted on 03/03/2014 5:58:24 AM PST by DaveA37
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