From The Wall Street Journal:Bush's 'diplomacy of freedom' gives way to Obama's caution and reticence. The Middle East may test our fatigue.
President Bush assumed office promising a "humble foreign policy." But it was his luck, or fate, to have much of his presidency consumed by adventures in the Greater Middle East. It is clear from the passion of his valedictory tour that he has caught the bug of that region, that it has worked its way on him as he himself worked his will, and the power available to him, on its settled and ruinous ways.
President-elect Barack Obama has signaled that the foreign world will not be his primary concern, that the repair of the American economy will trump all other pursuits and temptations. On the lands and the peoples of the Middle East, Mr. Obama has been largely silent, if not detached. He was in the Illinois Senate when a huge storm blew over the Islamic world. He was lucky, as his secretary of state designate endlessly reminded us, to have given a solitary speech on Iraq when the challenge came calling.
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My Comment: But the question that I have been asking for the past few weeks .... this change in foreign policy and focus .... will it make us safe? Or is another 9/11 just down the horizon. Fouad Ajami does not answer this question.
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