Crises Cascade and Converge, Testing Obama

New York Times ^ | July 22, 2014 | By PETER BAKER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rarely has a president been confronted with so many seemingly disparate foreign policy crises all at once — in Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere — but making the current upheaval more complicated for Mr. Obama is the seemingly interlocking nature of them all. Developments in one area, like Ukraine, shape his views and choices in a crisis in another area, like the Middle East.

“It’s a very tangled mess,” said Gary Samore, a former national security aide to Mr. Obama and now president of United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group. “You name it, the world is aflame. Foreign policy is always complicated. We always have a mix of complicated interests. That’s not unusual. What’s unusual is there’s this outbreak of violence and instability everywhere. It makes it hard for governments to cope with that.”

Little wonder then that in recent days the president seems almost to be suffering geopolitical whiplash.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Testing Obama? WTHeck? He’s not involved, he’s busy campaigning against Washington DC (including his own policies) in implementing the Limbaugh Theorem.

[tet68]

Little wonder then that in recent days the president seems almost to be suffering geopolitical whiplash.

Oooooh, someone hit him with a wet noodle?