Obama’s Anti-Doctrine Doctrine

Yahoo News ^ | 8/28/14 | Matt Bai

[TangledUpInBlue]

If you've been at the beach and missed the latest world news, let me briefly catch you up. Terrorists in Syria and Iraq have been overrunning the countryside, pausing to savagely murder an American journalist. Pakistan is reeling from political crisis. The Russians just made an incursion into Ukraine, the Israelis have been blowing up every other building in Gaza, and Ebola's rampaging through West Africa.

All of which has led to some of the most blistering criticism of Barack Obama's presidency — and not just because he found time to golf. Republican leaders have called Obama feckless and incompetent, a man without a grand plan. Hillary Clinton dismissed Obama’s internal mantra of "Don't do stupid stuff" — "stuff" being the G-rated term — as a lame excuse for a foreign policy.

There's some politics at work here, of course, but at the core of these criticisms is a much deeper question that divides Republicans from Democrats, and some Democrats from one another. Should such a thing as a foreign policy even exist? Or do world events defy some unifying theory

[TangledUpInBlue]

Obama is what we call a douche.

[Uncle Miltie]

[TangledUpInBlue]

Now now, no need to be offensive. :)

[EQAndyBuzz]

Giving a bad name to douchebags.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[a fool in paradise]

but at the core of these criticisms is a much deeper question that divides Republicans from Democrats, and some Democrats from one another. Should such a thing as a foreign policy even exist? Or do world events defy some unifying theory

The writer is making excuses...

[GeronL]

very vague and foggy excuses

[GeronL]

and not just because he found time to golf

He plays more golf than the professionals

[a fool in paradise]

Bet he has no doubt that economic policies should exist as well as global environmental policies...

[a fool in paradise]

Bill Clinton cast around for a slogan early in his tenure (Madeleine Albright, his United Nations ambassador and then secretary of state, tried out "assertive multilateralism," which I guess might be like muscular multilateralism, only more robust), but ultimately Clinton settled for confronting post-Cold War chaos on a pragmatic, ad hoc basis.

[a fool in paradise]

To put it crudely, the Cold War and its immediate aftermath were all about states — states we liked and didn't like, states that meant us harm or not, states whose borders needed to be protected or contained. The operative question then was, What kind of government do you have, and does it threaten our security?

Meanwhile libtards of the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s... were more loyal to Communism than to the United States and it's form of government.

The Cold War was driven by "hysteria" and "unrational fear" of the enemy within that was willing to subvert (knowingly or unknowingly) on behalf of Stalin's USSR and to lie and make excuses for tens of millions killed under Communist dominance.

In the immediate aftermath of WWII, nations that had been freed from Fascist dictatorship were thrown under the bus by the US government to be enslaved by Communist dictatorship.

[GeronL]

lol

Very fitting

[ClearCase_guy]

The significance if the nation state is ending. i see it overseas and i see it here at home. Guys with guns have influence. Laws and government structure is meaningless.

[NormsRevenge]

Muzzie plant is more like it.

[haroldeveryman]

“Giving a bad name to douchebags.”

OK, Obama was already feckless before he became a douchebag.