Enjoy your morning coffee with a column from Marc A. Thiessen, guest opinion writer for the Washington Post. Obama and Kerry have deluded themselves into thinking they know what they are doing with their foreign policy initiatives in Syria. Incompetent boobs is what we Iowans would call it.
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We’re conducting foreign policy by faux pas. This entire episode has been driven not by deliberate strategy but by slips of the tongue. Obama’s declaration of a “red line” on chemical weapons was a slip of the tongue. So was Secretary of State John Kerry’s offer to have Syria give up its chemical weapons. There is no plan, no coherence to anything this administration is doing on Syria.
More embarrassing still, Obama is actually claiming that the diplomatic “breakthrough” is the result of his administration’s show of strength.
Excuse me?
Was it a show of strength when Obama went to the world’s nations and asked them to join him in enforcing “their” red line — finding only one country (France) ready to do so? Or when the British parliament rejected military action for the first time since the 1700s? Or when a U.S. official told the Los Angeles Times that any U.S. strike would be “just muscular enough not to get mocked”? Or when Kerry declared that any strike would be “unbelievably small” and would not really constitute “war”? Or when Obama used his prime-time, nationally televised address to call on Congress to do . . . nothing?
That’s not a show of strength. That’s an embarrassment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-obamas-unbelievably-small-presidency/2013/09/16/e01838ca-1ed3-11e3-94a2-6c66b668ea55_story.html
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