RW, I'll probably rile up some conservative feathers with this post, but so far I have guarded optimism about Obama's foreign policies. After four years of Bush cowboy politics, along with another four years of cleaning up after them, Obama is doing a good job taking small but deliberate steps toward foreign relations, both to our allies and to our enemies.
It isn't "conservative" feathers. It is "common sense" feathers. You just don't run foreign policy this way.
Ten, his FP has been an abject failure, however you want to measure it.
While he's gone around apologizing for America and the result is they "like us", that and a dime will buy you a cup of coffee.
Where are we on substantive issues?
- NK?
- Iran?
- Self Defense against future terror attacks?
- Afghanistan?
- Iraq?
Pakistan has released AQ Kahn. Libya, who had surrendered its nuclear ambitions to GWB, is now fomenting terrorism again. Iraq, which came to Obama as a stable situation, is now teetering. We have actually sent a former president to have a photo-op with NK's dictator!
We have seen the CIA destroyed by the policy of this WH. This White House has essentially taken us back to where we were during the Clinton years when terrorism was treated as a law enforcement matter. But it is worse: Now, instead of Soufan doing the interrogating, the freaking WHITE HOUSE is in charge.
Coalition casualty rates in Afghanistan are soaring (interestingly, the Left doesn't seem to be bothered by this like they were when GWB was president). And it is going to get worse before it gets better.
I don't know how our foreign policy could be more of a train wreck. Putting GWB in charge of our foreign policy would be the absolute best thing that could happen at this instant. |
