Well, it would appear that Obama and Kerry have finally figured out their misguided intentions for Gaza will be going no where until they start taking seriously the idea of demilitarizing it - but here now is the whole problem with Obama and his practice of foreign policy: no one trusts him to do what he might say he'll do or do it competently should he actually commit to giving it a try. Friends and enemies have gotten the message: he doesn't believe in the value and uses of American power and therefore has never spent much time thinking about its practice and so like most liberals has no realistic or thoughtful understanding of or appreciation for the concept and no practical and objective sense of what the world might look like absent its effect. Browse the syllabi of America’s liberal universities and you'll find there are many many many more courses on the history of feminism or the semantics of white privilege than there are on the history of war - such is the rose colored glass through which a progressive of Obama’s ilk sees the world.
Our friends and enemies have witnessed the show and drawn their conclusions: Obama is either dangerously naive, hopelessly idealistic or rendered disturbingly incompetent by ideological conceit when it comes to the practice of foreign policy and thus it is our friends have determined he cannot be trusted and our enemies have pondered deeply the question of just how far they can push things with a president such as this sitting in the White House.
One can also imagine that it might not be amiss to believe that both our enemies and friends have wondered about a possibility that many on the right are convinced is true - namely, that Obama is leading a country that he doesn't much like and may indeed hate. The actions he's taken and the general nature of the way he governs does lead one to the speculation that he doesn't much see himself as the president of the whole United States but rather just those who think like him - which one could interpret as being symptomatic of an ideology not interested in the idea of America that has held sway for so long but rather cares only for the America that will be once the quiet progressive coup that Obama has started usurps control - and that America, one let's say that a professor in gender studies at Harvard would finally feel proud to count themselves a member of, would most decidedly not be a thing that our enemies need fear nor our erstwhile friends need vainly to claim a trust in.
Our friends and enemies have witnessed the show and drawn their conclusions: Obama is either dangerously naive, hopelessly idealistic or rendered disturbingly incompetent by ideological conceit when it comes to the practice of foreign policy and thus it is our friends have determined he cannot be trusted and our enemies have pondered deeply the question of just how far they can push things with a president such as this sitting in the White House.
One can also imagine that it might not be amiss to believe that both our enemies and friends have wondered about a possibility that many on the right are convinced is true - namely, that Obama is leading a country that he doesn't much like and may indeed hate. The actions he's taken and the general nature of the way he governs does lead one to the speculation that he doesn't much see himself as the president of the whole United States but rather just those who think like him - which one could interpret as being symptomatic of an ideology not interested in the idea of America that has held sway for so long but rather cares only for the America that will be once the quiet progressive coup that Obama has started usurps control - and that America, one let's say that a professor in gender studies at Harvard would finally feel proud to count themselves a member of, would most decidedly not be a thing that our enemies need fear nor our erstwhile friends need vainly to claim a trust in.
