Obama's foreign policy spine(counting onself out helps?)

WP ^ | 12/26/10 | David Ignatius

[TigerLikesRooster]

Obama's foreign policy spine

By David Ignatius

Sunday, December 26, 2010;

For a world that feared (and in some cases, cheered) the prospect of American decline, this holiday season has been bracing. It showed that despite U.S. political and economic difficulties, President Obama is still able to rally support at home and abroad for a strong foreign policy.

Obama's Christmas-week legislative successes capped a two-month period in which his foreign policy team strengthened key alliances, from East Asia to NATO. After Obama's humbling in the November elections, world leaders were talking in stage whispers about the erosion of American power, and of Obama as a weak and inattentive president. Those worries haven't disappeared, but they are allayed by his recent successes.

The foreign policy challenges of the past two months were also the first test of the new national security adviser, Tom Donilon. True to his reputation as a political "Mr. Fix-It," he was low-key, to the point of near-invisibility - and he'll need to present a stronger public face to succeed in that job. But he ran a smooth and seamless policy process, without the competing voices that have sometimes been heard over the past two years.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I guess Obama scrapped his "new vision" on foreign policy and ceded decision-making to old hands in military and foreign policy establishment. He is finally coming to terms with his incompetence.

[Shermy]

...and then he lost it all with his big, super-Bush II tax “cuts” without spending cuts, pushing up deficits and weakening the USA for years to come.

Yep, some victory.

The whole “whispers” thing is BS for liberals who have had their heads in the sand and not listened how the world has said “no” to Obama over and over and over. They could not accept the truth they are unaware.

[pierrem15]

The only thing stronger than Obama’s foreign policy spine is the tungsten carbide-like grip of David Ignatius’ lips on the Presidential buttocks.