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Dana Milbank: Another swing and a miss for Obama’s foreign policy
The Washington Post ^ | 14 Jul 2014 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 07/14/2014 6:23:04 PM PDT by mandaladon

President Obama has described his foreign-policy doctrine as an attempt to hit singles, doubles and the occasional home run. But at this stage of the game, it looks as though he has popped out, grounded into a double play and been hit by a pitch.

His attorney general, Eric Holder, said Sunday that the threat of undetectable explosives from Syria is “more frightening than anything” he has experienced in office. And the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page article Monday reporting that “the breadth of global instability now unfolding hasn’t been seen since the late 1970s” and that “U.S. global power seems increasingly tenuous.”

The Journal’s catalogue of woes — civil wars in Iraq and Syria, hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians, an electoral crisis in Afghanistan, tension with Russia over Ukraine, floundering nuclear negotiations with Iran and renewed Chinese expansionism — didn’t include the current crisis on the United States’ Southern border.

Could things get any worse? Well, maybe if the president’s chief spokesman claimed that Obama was bringing “tranquility” to the globe — which is what White House press secretary Josh Earnest did at his daily briefing Monday afternoon.

Fox News’s Ed Henry, citing the Journal report, asked for a reaction to “the notion that the president is a bystander in all these crises.”

Earnest, mentioning the disposal of Syria’s chemical weapons, Secretary of State John Kerry’s mediation of Afghanistan’s electoral dispute and progress in recent negotiations with China, argued that “there have been a number of situations in which you’ve seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has . . . substantially improved the — you know, the tranquility of the — of the global community.”

Tranquility? Where, in Iceland?

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; obama
Obama has the Midas touch...in reverse...everything he touches turns to manure.
1 posted on 07/14/2014 6:23:05 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon
it looks as though he has popped out, grounded into a double play and been hit by a pitch.

I would have said: tripped and fallen on the dugout steps and broken his nose.

2 posted on 07/14/2014 6:59:13 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: mandaladon

The OdumBO foreign policy is do nothing, wait till the rubble stops shaking and declare victory. The, most likely, outcome is bad guys win.


3 posted on 07/14/2014 8:17:41 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: depressed in 06
The OdumBO foreign policy is do nothing, wait till the rubble stops shaking and declare victory.

And accept the accolades as the MSM cheering session hosts a party for you.

4 posted on 07/14/2014 8:51:39 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: ConservingFreedom
it looks as though he has popped out, grounded into a double play and been hit by a pitch.

If you're hit by a pitch, at least you get on base. I don't see where the Obama administration has gotten that far. In baseball there's no concept of an own goal, but this administration has committed plenty of errors.

5 posted on 07/14/2014 8:58:08 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: AZLiberty

I got a theory on that. I don’t think he is committing errors I think what he is doing is very much intended. He is getting policies in place that he couldn’t through normal means and when he gets done the American people will be so enraged that they demand Congress roll back presidential power leaving all future presidents substantially weaker.


6 posted on 07/14/2014 9:07:25 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: mandaladon
The Obama team is like the Broncos at the Superbowl and Brazil at the World Cup combined.


7 posted on 07/14/2014 9:14:18 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Incompetent or evil?

I think he’s evil. We can only hope, following Rush, that his incompetence — and what’s left of the American spirit — will cause him to fail.


8 posted on 07/14/2014 9:42:34 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: AZLiberty

That was my thought too, but maybe he leaned into the pitch and got hit, in which case it would be a called strike.


9 posted on 07/15/2014 3:41:01 AM PDT by boomstick (One of the fingers on the button will be German.)
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To: mandaladon

Maybe he’s a spy for the opposing team.


10 posted on 07/15/2014 4:14:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: Race is his cover...jihad is his game.)
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