In this article about the left's petulant hatred of a movie that is both quite popular and full of good will towards the military this sentence probably captures the key as to why progressives and good foreign policy are virtually mutually exclusive concepts, a disturbing dynamic clearly made manifest during Obama's run as Commander-in-Chief:
Leftists simply can’t digest the fact that their own safety is predicated on the willingness to fight of courageous men they openly disdain.The left hates the military, they dislike, object to, disdain the 'types' that make it great, the ideas that motivate it and the cold reality it is a reflection of and resent the feeling of being dependent on such people and things - and so out of this resentment of a truth that cannot be reconciled with what they want to believe is hatched foreign policy thinking that, swathed in delusion and fantasy, attempts to delegitimize that power, to render it unimportant or at least less significant or fundamental to our security than some would have - resentment of a truth they cannot abide forces them artificially with clever conceits to try and elevate what they fancy as 'smart ' power over what I guess they'd scornfully label 'brutish' power - we know it otherwise as 'leading from behind' - but LFB is not smart power, it's a naive self-serving rationalization utterly detached from reality - and that pretty much sums up Obama's performance when it comes to foreign policy.
[this reminds me of the whole 'bring back our girls' farce - those left wing celebs holding up their little signs for a photo op and having no clue, no conception whatsoever of what it would take to go into a country like that and actually bring those girls back - the hypocrisy of it was just astounding - the left despises gun loving god fearing white boys from middle America but that's precisely who would have been called on to pull off such an impossible mission - that's left wing foreign policy for you: a weepy slogan and a selfie - and a completely delusional detachment from reality]
