Well, you make a left wing academic president of a superpower and I guess one shouldn't be surprised that you end up with a foreign policy that's all about weakness dressed up as enlightened forward thinking. Obama administration now essentially saying to China viz its security zone: we don't agree with it but will accept it so long as you improve the optics of the thing a little bit - in other words, we can accept your imperial overreach that shits on our regional allies just so long as you do it with a smile. This is exactly what China wanted and no doubt expected - that in the name of 'calm' Obama would blink and essentially legitimize China's regional claims while at same time embarrassing Japan and fracturing our relationship with them - just as with Iran and Israel, we put an ally in an untenable position in order to make concessions to an enemy all in the name of the illusion of peace and comity that serves the interests of the aggressor.
Oh, my. Worst president ever. As I've said before, I don't know how the person who follows him is going to be able to clean up the prodigious mess this man will leave behind - and the most dispiriting thing is the liberal media is still desperately trying to come up with ways to present this mess in a positive light - it's almost farcical - I think the country will have to be reduced to a smouldering pile of rubble before we'll hear them finally admit "ahhh... ya know what, maybe after all Obama wasn't the best choice for CEO... but at least amends were made for all that slavery stuff and we liberals can pat ourselves on the back for that... although, sure, a little bit sorry that the change part of hope ended up being inevitable decline..."
[Obama apologists will try to promote idea that this is a clever move by Dear Leader that encourages a Chinese aggression that drives the other players in the region further into our arms - that sounds like fantasy to me, sweet nothings from catamites - simply by announcing the zone the other players were sufficiently motivated to cling to us and the proper move would be to cement that bond by clearly rejecting China's claims - instead, the only clear messages sent here are that incremental hegemony by China will be rewarded and that US allies should doubt the resolve, true intentions and fealty of the Obama administration - these people have witnessed Obama's foreign policy - the naivety of the Russian reset, half measures in Afghanistan, leading from behind in Libya, embrace of the noxious Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, equivocation and retreat in Syria, concessions to Iran at Israel's expense - and are legitimately reaching the conclusion that Obama is not about defending the traditional aspects of American power - indeed, a cynic might well conclude that he is all about unwinding that power as much as possible]
Oh, my. Worst president ever. As I've said before, I don't know how the person who follows him is going to be able to clean up the prodigious mess this man will leave behind - and the most dispiriting thing is the liberal media is still desperately trying to come up with ways to present this mess in a positive light - it's almost farcical - I think the country will have to be reduced to a smouldering pile of rubble before we'll hear them finally admit "ahhh... ya know what, maybe after all Obama wasn't the best choice for CEO... but at least amends were made for all that slavery stuff and we liberals can pat ourselves on the back for that... although, sure, a little bit sorry that the change part of hope ended up being inevitable decline..."
[Obama apologists will try to promote idea that this is a clever move by Dear Leader that encourages a Chinese aggression that drives the other players in the region further into our arms - that sounds like fantasy to me, sweet nothings from catamites - simply by announcing the zone the other players were sufficiently motivated to cling to us and the proper move would be to cement that bond by clearly rejecting China's claims - instead, the only clear messages sent here are that incremental hegemony by China will be rewarded and that US allies should doubt the resolve, true intentions and fealty of the Obama administration - these people have witnessed Obama's foreign policy - the naivety of the Russian reset, half measures in Afghanistan, leading from behind in Libya, embrace of the noxious Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, equivocation and retreat in Syria, concessions to Iran at Israel's expense - and are legitimately reaching the conclusion that Obama is not about defending the traditional aspects of American power - indeed, a cynic might well conclude that he is all about unwinding that power as much as possible]