Posted on 03/11/2016 3:03:15 PM PST by Trumpinator
The real loser in Barack Obama’s worldview? David Cameron.
By Adam Taylor March 11 at 11:54 AM
After eight years of often-difficult foreign policy, does President Obama bear any grudges? A lengthy new article based on hours and hours of interviews with the president published by the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg offers a hard look at Obama's thoughts on America's allies and enemies. Some of those thoughts may seem strikingly unorthodox.
For example, while Iran comes into the president's line of fire, Obama also complains bitterly about America's Sunni Arab allies, Saudi Arabia in particular. China, perhaps America's most serious competitor on the world stage, gets off lightly, with the U.S. leader saying he'd prefer a stable China than a chaotic one. And Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader considered a pariah around much of the globe, gets a remarkably polite assessment from Obama, who dubs him "scrupulously polite, very frank" in their meetings.
Meanwhile, it doesn't take much reading between the lines to see another world leader with a supposedly more "special" relationship with the United States being repeatedly held up as a foreign policy headache. His name is David Cameron, and by Goldberg's telling, the U.S. president feels that the British prime minister's hand plays heavily in a number of Obama's biggest foreign policy debacles.
Syria, perhaps the defining crisis of Obama's time, is an obvious moment of Obama-Cameron friction. In summer 2013, Goldberg explains, Cameron hoped to push Obama into military action after the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, was found to have gassed his own civilians. “Syria’s history is being written in the blood of her people, and it is happening on our watch," Cameron said at a joint news conference earlier in the year, indicating his willingness to militarily intervene to force Assad out. ----> Continued
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Let me know what you think of this insider info if you are a foreign policy geek also.
If Obama was looking to make an excuse for his failures in foreign policy to spare his reputation - I think he failed and I think this actually makes Obama look weak and stupid and easily manipulated.
And.....Obama's prefered foreign policy that he wished he did matches what Trump has been saying is his thinking on foreign policy. In other words, even Obama thinks Trump is right.
Dragged us into one world war, pushed us into another (the latter of which I am pleased we fought in, but still). Hypocrites to a T who milk the “special relationship” (pushed by Wilson). Can’t say I am too sad that perfidious Albion is being given the shaft.
Let’s see. We foolish destabilized Libya, then blamed Cameron?
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Obama is saying Cameron tricked and or forced Obama into the Libya adventure.
The DiC and Hill screw up Libya and blame Cameron. Classy
weak
the first time in almost eight years the boy didn't blame Bush
Obama does not get a lot of things right, but he IS correct that US allies need to step up to the plate when it comes to funding their own defense.
Hillarious !
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