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Obama’s Anti-Doctrine Doctrine
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| 8/28/14
| Matt Bai
Posted on 08/28/2014 8:06:47 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
If you've been at the beach and missed the latest world news, let me briefly catch you up. Terrorists in Syria and Iraq have been overrunning the countryside, pausing to savagely murder an American journalist. Pakistan is reeling from political crisis. The Russians just made an incursion into Ukraine, the Israelis have been blowing up every other building in Gaza, and Ebola's rampaging through West Africa.
All of which has led to some of the most blistering criticism of Barack Obama's presidency and not just because he found time to golf. Republican leaders have called Obama feckless and incompetent, a man without a grand plan. Hillary Clinton dismissed Obamas internal mantra of "Don't do stupid stuff" "stuff" being the G-rated term as a lame excuse for a foreign policy.
There's some politics at work here, of course, but at the core of these criticisms is a much deeper question that divides Republicans from Democrats, and some Democrats from one another. Should such a thing as a foreign policy even exist? Or do world events defy some unifying theory
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreignpolicy; islamicimperialism; islamicstate; islamictheocracy; mattbai; obamadoctrine; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; proislamist; theocraticrule; worstpresidentever
Obama is what we call a douche.
To: TangledUpInBlue
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:09:18 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
To: Uncle Miltie
Now now, no need to be offensive. :)
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:14:29 AM PDT
by
TangledUpInBlue
(I have no home. I'm the wind.)
To: TangledUpInBlue
Giving a bad name to douchebags.
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:23:46 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:35:39 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: TangledUpInBlue; GeronL
but at the core of these criticisms is a much deeper question that divides Republicans from Democrats, and some Democrats from one another. Should such a thing as a foreign policy even exist? Or do world events defy some unifying theory The writer is making excuses...
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:48:39 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: a fool in paradise
very vague and foggy excuses
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:50:15 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: TangledUpInBlue
and not just because he found time to golfHe plays more golf than the professionals
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:50:45 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
Bet he has no doubt that economic policies should exist as well as global environmental policies...
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:51:21 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: TangledUpInBlue; GeronL
Bill Clinton cast around for a slogan early in his tenure (Madeleine Albright, his United Nations ambassador and then secretary of state, tried out "assertive multilateralism," which I guess might be like muscular multilateralism, only more robust), but ultimately Clinton settled for confronting post-Cold War chaos on a pragmatic, ad hoc basis.
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:54:37 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: TangledUpInBlue
To put it crudely, the Cold War and its immediate aftermath were all about states states we liked and didn't like, states that meant us harm or not, states whose borders needed to be protected or contained. The operative question then was, What kind of government do you have, and does it threaten our security? Meanwhile libtards of the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s... were more loyal to Communism than to the United States and it's form of government.
The Cold War was driven by "hysteria" and "unrational fear" of the enemy within that was willing to subvert (knowingly or unknowingly) on behalf of Stalin's USSR and to lie and make excuses for tens of millions killed under Communist dominance.
In the immediate aftermath of WWII, nations that had been freed from Fascist dictatorship were thrown under the bus by the US government to be enslaved by Communist dictatorship.
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:58:30 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:01:45 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: TangledUpInBlue
The significance if the nation state is ending. i see it overseas and i see it here at home. Guys with guns have influence. Laws and government structure is meaningless.
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:02:20 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
To: TangledUpInBlue
Muzzie plant is more like it.
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:38:30 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: EQAndyBuzz
“Giving a bad name to douchebags.”
OK, Obama was already feckless before he became a douchebag.
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