[E. Pluribus Unum]

CRAZY CHARLES JOSEPH SCARBOROUGH ALERT!!!

[BradyLS]

Boomers that never grew up are now running the asylum.

[JohnBrowdie]

because the stupid bastard (literally accurate) in charge of US foreign policy thought the world would swoon at his feet because he’s just so incredibly awesome.

in other words, he’s a dangerous, self obsessed newbie with nearly terminal naïveté.

[hlmencken3]

It’s a puzzle. Like a dead young female staffer in a Congressman’s office.

[Paladin2]

This would be directly Joe’s fault.

[Talisker]

Hillary was Secretary of State for four years and left the Middle East literally in flames.

That’s what happened.

[Fungi]

This former rhino turned RAT is a disgrace. He has learned how to maintain his audience, just throw enough crap against the proverbial liberal wall, see what sticks and go with it. Here is the answer most stupid one: the feckless fool on the hill.

[Beowulf9]

Oh. So it’s all Bush’s fault and Obama inherited the mess.

Sure.

[JimSEA]

Bush had things pretty well in hand, a situation Obama was anxious to undo and Obama was successful in reversing every gain Bush had made. We are now in the middle of an Obama world and just wait until Iran emerges victorious.

[Mastador1]

Liberal historians will trace much of the region’s turmoil to JIMMY "Peanut Brain" CARTER.

[Verginius Rufus]

Everything is Bush's fault, and the success of the surge is credited to Petraeus, not Bush. No wonder that Scarborough is comfortable on MSNBC.

Bush in 2003 was faced with choosing the lesser of two evils. If he had done nothing, Saddam would still be in power and perhaps would have nukes. The rants like Scarborough's that attack Bush for his decision never ask what would have happened if Bush had done nothing.

It was my feeling at the time that if Bush let Saddam stay in power, Bush would be defeated in 2004. Of course there is no way to prove or disprove that. Kerry in 2005 could have started the Clinton-Obama demolition of American interests in the Middle East 4 years earlier.

Bill Clinton didn't exactly have much success in the Middle East either and his forgotten errors (like refusing to accept Osama bin Laden when offered him) caused a lot of our later difficulties.

[stevem]

Stumbling through history: How did U.S. foreign policy end up in such disarray?

This must be a trick question. You have an elected President who hates the United States like the Devil hates Holy Water or Allah hates infidels.

[CyberAnt]

Gee Joe, I think it might be the person YOU VOTED FOR ..!!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I will agree with Joe that taking out Saddam now appears to have been a mistake. Everything else is Zero’s fault of mismanagement.

[C210N]

Bush over time was methodically surrounding the center of world terrorism in Iran. Øbama is fundamentally transforming that situation, enlarging the power of Iran so it surrounds those that remain instead. Just turning the tables a tad.

[DJ Taylor]

Future historians will look back and wonder why the U.S. transferred enormous amounts of their wealth to Muslim countries to pay for oil when the U.S. could have and should have simply taken it.

[rlmorel]

It is pretty simple.

Weakness encourages aggression. And this President is the biggest wimp to have ever inhabited the Oval Office.

Even squinty-eyed terrorists with pea-brains can spot weakness that apparent.

[G Larry]

By the evil designs of dear leader.

This is intentional.

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[faithhopecharity]

Because he loves communism and because he hates our allies like UK, Germany, Israel, Canada, etc., and especically because he wants to build up the global IslamoNazi caliphate (dictatorship) at our expense and the expense of everybody else in his way.

Question answered, see above.

[baltimorepoet]

By retreating too quickly from Iraq, ignoring mass murder in Syria, abandoning Iranian reformers being shot in Tehran’s streets, blowing up Libya and then leaving it to burn, ignoring ISIL until it the terror group metastasized across the Middle East, antagonizing the Sunni world by launching a desperate bid for an Iranian nuclear deal, and stiff-arming America’s two most important regional allies in Jerusalem and Cairo, Barack Obama has somehow inherited a dangerously unfocused U.S. foreign policy and reduced it to rubble.

Seems like a fair assessment. Or as I say, George W. Bush may have been a moron, but the Obamanation makes him look like Stephen Hawking.