For the last couple of years there has been a wealth of condemnation of Obama’s policies aboard….and some of them from me…..but most of it coming from the GOP and especially from those that jumped onto the presidential bandwagon…

I read an article recently in The American Conservative about this very subject……..

Yoni Appelbaum relays a questionable claim from Richard Haass:

President Obama’s term in office, said Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, was marked by the pendulum swinging toward caution. “Much of his administration was a conscious reaction what he saw of his predecessor of trying to do much,” he said. “Seeing the dangers of doing too much, he opted to do less, and I think what historians will see is that he opted to do too little in places [bold mine-DL].”

I don’t know how future historians will view Obama’s foreign policy, and neither does Haass. It is interesting that Haass chooses to put it this way, since he is really making a statement about how much of the contemporary foreign policy establishment views Obama’s record. It is Haass and many of his colleagues that now think Obama has done “too little in places,” which is tied up with their support for an exaggerated, activist U.S. role in the world. Obama has actually been a very activist foreign policy president in both terms, but on certain issues he has not been quite as aggressive as many in the foreign policy establishment wanted him to be, and so they conclude that he did “too little.” Haass invokes future historians to make his assessment seem objective and disinterested, but it just a way to smuggle in the objections of administration critics that want a more meddlesome foreign policy.

Source: Has Obama Done ‘Too Little’ Abroad? | The American Conservative

I agree that he has done little….but I feel he has done little to promote a peaceful settlement of the events that he chose to involve the US in…..

The problem is that his record will be a bright one once it is compared to whoever wins this election….the US is going to be ass deep in everyone’s problems from 2017 onward.