Posted by
onlinebenny on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:41:42 PM
Obama's early foreign policy -- can wanting to be liked/loved be a foreign policy or the basis of one? -- is reminiscent of the early days of JFK when he met Khruschev (in Vienna?) And was perceived to be clearly out of his depth. What's different is that Obama is seen to be out of hsi depth (Russia, Iran, Arab street, North Korea) and he has yet to meet them. When they meet him, he will be perceived to be out of his depth and naïve to a degree that they cannot even imagine.
Also, JFK at least learned some lessons and toughened up -- he did serve in WWII after all. No such toughening is likely from a president barely qualified to be our dogcatcher-in-chief; watch, they will create a federal dogcatcher position.
This president believes that apologies, mea culpas, self-demonizations, and good public platitudinal speaking will lead us into an era of improved security.
I can only hope that we will all live to regret the election of such a clearly unqualified president. Even Jimmy Carter was more qualified to be president. Hopefully, he will be like carter and only cause us one term of American weakness and misery.