Friday, October 16, 2009

U.S. Foreign Policy Is Adrift -- A Commentary

President Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Pete Souza/The White House

Where The Mild Things Are... -- Foreign Policy

Secretary of State Clinton went to Russia to discuss the possibility of putting sanctions on Iran. The Russians pushed back hard and publicly. The State Department weakly responded that they hadn't come to Moscow looking for anything in the first place.

The Iranians taunt us with their open nuclear ambitions and we don't have much to credibly offer in the way of sanctions (see above) and so we find ourselves grasping at straws in terms of an international dialogue with them. We are forced to take proven liars at their word because there is no realistic Plan B.

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My Comment: If the person who wrote the above commentary is an Obama supporter (he says that he is) .... President Obama is in a heap of trouble with his base.

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