Photo: Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft. Photo from CSISObama's Foreign Policy: Big Ideas, Little Implementation -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
Before the 2008 election, two former national security advisers recommended that the next president craft a foreign policy strategy to align the United States with a "global political awakening" that was transforming the world.
Two years later, as Tom Donilon prepares to take the national security adviser post, these illustrious predecessors, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, are making essentially the same recommendation. They argue that U.S. foreign policy needs a clearer strategic framework that can take advantage of President Obama's ability to speak to the world -- a dialogue that has unfortunately been handicapped in Obama's first 21 months.
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My Comment: David Ignatius .... and much of the Washington editorial staff .... were/are big supporters of President Obama. So when I started to read David Ignatius's piece, I looked at the title and I expected a critique of his foreign policy.
I should have known better .... this is not a critique on President Obama's foreign policy. Worse .... they are taking credit for accomplishments that are not even accomplishments. The "Russian reset" has not been a success .... one only has to read the contempt that the Russian media has towards President Obama and the Democrat Congress on deficits, the war in Afghanistan, missile defense, Iran, etc. to get a quick grasp that maybe things are not great.
I could spend the entire night going down Ignatius' list on what and why I am in disagreement with his assessment of President Obama's foreign policy .... but time is short and all that I can say is read his commentary with the utmost skepticism, and make your own judgment.
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