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  • Obama heads for foreign policy disaster (putting it mildly)

    09/17/2009 6:10:27 AM PDT · by teddyballgame · 21 replies · 1,218+ views
    The Week Magazine ^ | 9/17/09 | David Frum
    Ernest Hemingway offered a memorable description of the experience of going broke: it occurs at first very slowly, then all at once. The Obama foreign policy remains as yet in the "very slowly" stage. But the ultimate destination to which it is trending has already come into sight. AFGHANISTAN. George W. Bush took a lot of criticism for cutting taxes at the beginning of the prior administration's wars. What are we to say about President Obama cutting military spending at the beginning of his? Senior military commanders are pressing for more troops. The civilian overseers of the Department of Defense...