I admit it…I have been a dick when it comes to Obama’s foreign policy but to be truthful I have been a dick to every American president in the last 30 years over their foreign policy choices…..
The answer to every challenge has been a bigger bomb or a drone or as a last resort….. troops……there seems to be no other options to consider these days……..
I have been especially critical of Obama’s policies…..none of them show the hope and change we were promised back in 2008……and his Middle East policies have been damn right abysmal……GW would be proud.
Did President Obama’s policy to refrain from plunging the US into the swamp of Syria’s civil war proved to be the right choice?
The problem with this question is that it focuses the attention on only one part of the issue. The issue here is the general strategy of the Obama administration in Syria. US military role, promoted or rejected, should only be one potential choice in the proposed components of any strategy. Discussing the prudence of policies related to one single part of an approach, torn out of its whole, is misleading and reveals a deep misconception about the role of military power.
Source: A Contribution to the Debate on President Obama’s Mideast Policies | Middle East Briefing
I would say that the next prez could do better….but with the crop we have now……change is highly unlikely……and will be more of the same…..
Any thoughts?
I believe that Obama’s policy here is completely wrong… you see the results my friend on ground and around the globe. Btw who do you think will be the next US President? Hope not Trump: i’ll have to move in another planet.
Save me room on the shuttle because I will go with you…..hate to say that I believe it will be Clinton…..if so nothing will change…..none of the candidates have an adequate foreign policy short of force….that will be disastrous….chuq
Social inertia is NOT susceptible to manipulation, by any means at our disposal. With more than seven billion people on the planet, the force required to change the direction society is set upon is more than can possibly be brought to bear upon it. There is SO much inertia NOTHING will alter the upcoming events, without major changes to the spirit and behavior of the greater portion of those seven billion people, and that would still take more time than we have left to figure it out….
The saddest, most ironic part of all that is that those who need to make the necessary changes will never be interested in doing so, even though it will eventually kill them, and most everyone else…. They just cannot see their own failure, nor are they willing to try.
We are rats in too small a cage, and nobody is outside to open the door….
Yep, doom & gloom… It’s a Tuesday, and the show goes on, to its logical, and pathetic end….
gigoid, the dubious