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This Is Obama’s Last Foreign Policy Chance
The Daily Beast ^ | 1/14/15 | Leslie Gelb

Posted on 01/14/2015 11:59:23 AM PST by LRoggy

The failure of Obama or Biden to show up in Paris made clear that most of the president’s team can’t be trusted to conduct U.S national security policy and must be replaced—at once.

Here’s why America’s failure to be represented at the Paris unity march was so profoundly disturbing. It wasn’t just because President Obama’s or Vice President Biden’s absence was a horrendous gaffe. More than this, it demonstrated beyond argument that the Obama team lacks the basic instincts and judgment necessary to conduct U.S. national security policy in the next two years. It’s simply too dangerous to let Mr. Obama continue as is—with his current team and his way of making decisions. America, its allies, and friends could be heading into one of the most dangerous periods since the height of the Cold War.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charliehebdo; deathtoislam; france; paris
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Every one of us who knows who Leslie Gelb is might need to pick up our tongues off the floor after reading this. If Leslie Gelb is calling out this administration it is pretty big.
1 posted on 01/14/2015 11:59:23 AM PST by LRoggy
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To: LRoggy
This is the New York-based Foreign Policy Community stating that it's time to put the Obama Administration's foreign policy into receivership. The same thing happened to Reagan after the Iran-Contra mess when New York sent Colin Powell in to be the receiver.

The author is speaking for Richard Haase of the Council on Foreign Relations, who has been outspoken in the past about the administration's failures in managing foreign policy. New York has decided to become proactive in this area. Obama is being given an ultimatum.

2 posted on 01/14/2015 12:05:21 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: LRoggy
Indeed, and wow.

I bet it falls on large deaf ears.

3 posted on 01/14/2015 12:09:43 PM PST by onona (Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
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To: LRoggy

Oh oh. He’s doing more harm then good for the Democrat Party. Next, they’ll be trying to get him to ride in an open car.


4 posted on 01/14/2015 12:09:56 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Publius

You don’t know how happy I was the day Zbigniew Brzezinski had to finally leave the White House.


5 posted on 01/14/2015 12:15:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: LRoggy
The author completely misses the point that Obama is doing just fine. He won't replace his foreign policy team or add seasoned advisers who would protect American interests. Obama is an incredible success in embarrassing America, tearing down its capabilities and influence and advancing Islam. He has a Midas touch in destabilizing governments and strengthening transnational Islamic terrorism.
6 posted on 01/14/2015 12:15:48 PM PST by Truth29
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To: LRoggy

Well, with Bambi usurping the other branches of government, why don’t the other branches usurp usual executive functions, such as Boehner or Scalia should have gone to Paris and represented the USA?


7 posted on 01/14/2015 12:19:23 PM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: Mears

bfl


8 posted on 01/14/2015 12:20:00 PM PST by Mears
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To: LRoggy

He still has almost two years to really mess up America then to go on to the UN as a rep.


9 posted on 01/14/2015 12:20:58 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: Truth29

Yes. We see willful destruction and they see incompetence. They don’t get it, do they?


10 posted on 01/14/2015 12:21:03 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Real Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: LRoggy

My main quibbles with the article:

The “Wise men” group is a bit long in the tooth, and Kissinger is not exactly an America-Firster.

And Gelb refers to Obama as a “first-rate as an intellectual thinker”, which is the opposite of true. Whenever Obama has gone into something off-script, he’s invariably been confused, scatterbrained, and nigh-incoherent, as no true intellectual would be when asked to speak off-the-cuff.


11 posted on 01/14/2015 12:26:41 PM PST by Little Pig
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To: LRoggy

“The must-gos include National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, chief speech writer/adviser Ben Rhodes, and foreign policy guru without portfolio Valerie Jarrett.”

The last clause is what this article is really about.


12 posted on 01/14/2015 12:32:08 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: LRoggy

Obama can’t decide much, unless it’s what time to tee off.


13 posted on 01/14/2015 12:40:36 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: LRoggy

Thanks for posting this story. For Leslie Gelb to so thoroughly destroy the Obama administration should have Dear Leader in a panic. Mr. Gelb has great courage to publish this, and I presume he wanted to start building pressure for change. He can look to Bob Woodward to learn his fate.

Gelb’s forthright statement that Obama must immediately replace almost his entire administration (even his personal handler Valerie Jarrett) with competent, experienced advisors is accurate, and his proposal of specific names and solutions laudable. Gelb even acknowledges that Obama is the biggest obstacle to improvement. But he never makes the case for how this could ever happen.

Besides the fact that his foreign policy goal is to undermine the capitalist, post-colonial powers, Obama’s ego requires that he preside over a court of fourth-rate jesters, in an echo chamber. No way he is going to admit his entire administration is rotten from Barack to core and replace it. Nor will he do the right thing: force Biden to resign, appoint a competent VP, then resign himself.


14 posted on 01/14/2015 1:00:13 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: blueunicorn6
The DbD cartoon this morning had a thing going with 0's administration substituting the Benny Hill theme music (Yakity Sax) for Hail to the Chief.

I clicked on the link and it was pretty funny when you thought about it.

15 posted on 01/14/2015 1:02:56 PM PST by skimbell
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To: LRoggy
Might be better to have these idiots running foreign policy. Everything the US government is doing now is counter productive. Like Rush said, we want them to fail at that. Better to have incompetent bad leaders then competent bad leaders.
16 posted on 01/14/2015 1:12:18 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: LRoggy

Everyone is, of course, ignoring the possibility that Obama intentionally did not intend, perhaps that his sympathies were with not the French but with the radical islamists.


17 posted on 01/14/2015 2:22:10 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: LRoggy

I was serving last night and came across Anderson Cooper on Letterman. Cooper made a snide remark about Obama not being in Paris and I thought Letterman was going to start crying.


18 posted on 01/14/2015 2:31:34 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: SkyDancer

“Rep”?
He expects to be the grand pooh baah there.
When he leaves office and declares he is a mooselimb,
There are what 50 mooselimb countries there?
And some dink country can claim him as theirs and run him for it.


19 posted on 01/14/2015 2:31:48 PM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: Joe Boucher

I bet he comes out as a mussie once he leaves office ... that whole Christian thing (remember Stephanopoulos correcting 0bama when he said he was a mussie?) was false just to keep the public misinformed.....


20 posted on 01/14/2015 3:10:41 PM PST by SkyDancer
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