Debate? Really? The answer here is obvious. There is no foreign policy. Mr. O is afraid of being The President. He would prefer, rather, to be Michael Jordan (so to speak). He does NOT grasp the hard edges of geopolitics. To Ali Wyne: we still need to act as catalyst, and that has been absent. To Reuel Gerecht: D.C. has retreated - and I mean that in the sense of lacking credibility (which need not imply that prior White House occupants got it right - but abnegation, in this case, is not correct, either, and may indeed be worse than being active but getting it wrong). To Chatham House: no, its not realistic. To Rashid Khalidi: thats pretty close, although I wouldnt quite characterize D.C. vis-a-vis Crimea as a response To Sestanovich: thats what Mr. O wants (which itself is not his primary function, and a mistake from the git-go), but hes mis-stepped there as well. nytimes/roomfordebate/2014/03/11/weakness-or-realism-in-foreign-policy
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 05:27:44 +0000
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