For the first time in fifty years, a U.S., President has done the right thing, a conservative thing to develop and implement a foreign policy based on friendship and treaties rather than animosity and hostilities. His approach brings long term peace and security to them by turning enemies into friends and partners in peace and cooperation.
Mike Ghouse
www.CenterforAmericanPolitics.com
Barack Obama's revolution in Foreign Policy
Courtesy : Atlantic Magazine
Mike Ghouse
www.CenterforAmericanPolitics.com
Barack Obama's revolution in Foreign Policy
Courtesy : Atlantic Magazine
It is a criticism I have heard from more than one person who has worked
with President Obama: that he regards himself as the smartest person in the
room—any room. Jeffrey Goldberg’s fascinating article reveals that this is a
considerable understatement. The president seems to think he is the smartest
person in the world, perhaps ever.
Power corrupts in subtle ways. It appears to have made Obama arrogant. As
described in Goldberg’s story, he is impatient to the point of rudeness with
members of his own administration. His response to Secretary of State John Kerry
when he hands him a paper on Syria is: “Oh, another proposal?” “Samantha,
enough,” he snaps at the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “I’ve already
read your book.” We learn, too, that he “secretly disdains … the Washington
foreign-policy establishment.”
The president is also bluntly critical of traditional American allies. He
is said to have told Prime Minister David Cameron that Britain “would no longer
be able to claim a ‘special relationship’ with the United States” if it did not
“pay [its] fair share” by increasing defense spending. The Pakistanis and the
Saudis get especially short shrift here, as—predictably—does Israel.
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