Monday, July 2, 2012
"... wow, what horrible analysis - are you on the Obama payroll or something Fred? I'm not gonna defend Romney's foreign policy statements per se since they don't really matter at this point and will have virtually nothing to do with who wins the election regardless - but your defence of Obama's record vis a vis Romney's statements is so weak as to be unconscious with a bit of drool spilling from the mouth.
Obama deserves credit for bin Laden the way Truman deserved credit for Victory in Europe - and the killing of OBL said one of two things about Obama that liberal sycophants like yourself ignore: to wit, he was either lying about 'winning the good war' in Afghanistan since because once you've gone behind Pakistan's back to get OBL you've lost Afghanistan - or they didn't really care much for the negative fallout of embarrassing the Pakistani military this way, which amounts to a grievous strategic miscalculation.
As for the putative Arab Spring, the Obama administration did not seem to have a clue as to what was actually going on over there - Israel understood on day one of unrest that Egypt was heading towards an Islamist not a democratic revolution but Obama seemed to understand nothing and acted accordingly - true, there were not a lot of options viz Egypt, but there were some - but only if you understood what the hell was actually going on!
As for Russia, Putin is obviously a lot more savvy than you - but then he's not an Obamaphile so his judgement is unimpaired by excessive supplication. Putin understands that Russia's power is enhanced by a weakened, disunited Europe and an American retreat from the Mideast. True, seems unlikely he will be wielding this power in conventional 'boots on the ground' terms - but very likely he will be wielding it with a Machiavellian delight in strategic mischief. History is full of examples of weaker powers exerting great influence through cunning manipulation of circumstances - look at England during the early years of Europe. Putin seems to get this - maybe Obama should put down the Aquinas [hope the maenad who put that lie out got a nice raise] and pick up a book on military history..."