Wait a second - a blink already? US orders its air carriers to obey China's air defense zone rules? This puts Japan and South Korea, who have given opposite instructions, in difficult position, no? Is this classic Obama foreign policy again at work: a token show of strength [the B-52s] that covers up the inevitable embrace of weakness and resignation and retreat? They say they're doing it for the sake of clarity - clarity of what? China gets what it wants? And if clarity is their goal, does that mean no more US military flights through disputed zone without first complying with China's rules? I'm not liking the sounds of this at all. Soon Japan is gonna start to know what it feels like to be Israel when Obama's looking out for your interests. As Mark Steyn wrote in his column today:
Some years ago, I heard that great scholar of Islam, Bernard Lewis, caution that America risked being seen as harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend. The Obama administration seems to have raised the thought to the level of doctrine.
