President Obama's Foreign Policy

[Thoughtful Monk]

Winston Churchill spoke the following about Neville Chamberlin after the latter's death:

It fell to Neville Chamberlain in one of the supreme crises of the world to be contradicted by events, to be disappointed in his hopes, and to be deceived and cheated by a wicked man. But what were these hopes in which he was disappointed? What were these wishes in which he was frustrated? What was that faith that was abused? They were surely among the most noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart-the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace, even at great peril, and certainly to the utter disdain of popularity or clamor.

I think at least in part this is applicable to President Obama - except for the last 10 words.

[Cow Poke]

I'll say it again --- Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like a foreign policy GENIUS.

[Jedidiah]

Winston Churchill spoke the following about Neville Chamberlin after the latter's death:

I think at least in part this is applicable to President Obama - except for the last 10 words.

I think Obama is one of the wicked men doing the deceiving, not one being deceived by anyone. He only wants to harm America.

[Thoughtful Monk]

I'll say it again --- Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like a foreign policy GENIUS.

I was watching a news program yesterday and it did bring a question up in my mind.

Why did it take so long for our enemies to figure this out?

[Epoetker]

I was watching a news program yesterday and it did bring a question up in my mind.

Why did it take so long for our enemies to figure this out?

The actual troops in place tend to discourage action until they could be sure that those in charge of deploying them would sit on their hands.

[Cow Poke]

I was watching a news program yesterday and it did bring a question up in my mind.

Why did it take so long for our enemies to figure this out?

I don't think it took long at all for them to figure it out -- I think they began plotting their moves as soon as they began to see Obama's "leadership from behind" style.

[Cow Poke]

From our friends across the Pond....

Source: UK Telegraph

President Barack Obama's national security flops just keep coming.

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[CMD]

Obama's foreign policy failure is all Bush's fault.

[Cow Poke]

Obama's foreign policy failure is all Bush's fault.

Without a doubt. But Obama takes full responsibility, while blaming everybody else, and not firing anybody.

[Ana Dragule]

Please forgive how basic this question is, but how does Obama's foreign policy differ much from Bush other than the absence of fear being shoved down our throats? Or perhaps what are the strongest differences?

[One Bad Pig]

Wait. . . You mean Obama HAS a foreign policy?


Aside from reading the newspaper to find out what's going on.

[Cow Poke]

Please forgive how basic this question is, but how does Obama's foreign policy differ much from Bush other than the absence of fear being shoved down our throats? Or perhaps what are the strongest differences?

Click the link in Post #7 -- it goes into that.

[One Bad Pig]

So, it turns out Obama's foreign policy is "Don't do stupid [stuff]." If only he actually followed it. . . .

[Epoetker]

Please forgive how basic this question is, but how does Obama's foreign policy differ much from Bush other than the absence of fear being shoved down our throats? Or perhaps what are the strongest differences?

Obama inherited the commitments, but wasn't actually going to keep or enforce any of them. It simply took a while for the rest of the world to get both the picture and the courage to move on his lack of convictions.

[Cow Poke]

Does anybody still think Obama's foreign policy is working well?