Obama's Foreign Affairs

Former Marine chief doubts Afghan timetable "The just-retired Marine Corps commandant says he doubts the U.S. military can withdraw from Afghanistan's volatile south by a July 2011 deadline set by President Obama for the start of force reductions."....
""Counterinsurgencies just take time," Conway said. "I hope the focus is not ... time constraints as much as it is the will to win.""

Obama's anti-Israeli hysteria dangerous and destructive "And Obama is showing that his personal popularity, not America's standing, still less matters of substance such as Iran's nuclear program, is what motivates him."
"This leads to the second explanation of his behaviour, and that is to make himself personally popular in the Muslim world. Beating up on Israel is the cheapest trick in the book on that score and it can earn him easy, worthless and no doubt temporary plaudits in some parts of the Muslim world." The Australian
More powerful commentary on this: Barack Hussein Obama: America’s First Anti-Israeli President? 

The U.S. Transition in Iraq: Iraqi Forces and U.S. Military Aid   "...one of the most critical decisions the Obama Administration and US Congress will take over the next five years is whether to fund enough US advisory and assistance efforts in Iraq. This will help Iraq create effective security capabilities, and fund major force improvements during the period before its economy can recover and it can greatly expand its own oil revenues." Anthony H. Cordesman

Why Does Obama hate Israel?  "The roots of the problem likely go back to Obama’s early formative years. I will leave such an exhaustive investigation to those more equipped to handle it. I will pause here only to point out Obama’s association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. Obama spent years absorbing the fiery, anti-Semitic rants of Wright in the Trinity United Church. Is it possible to hear such things and not be affected? Only President Obama can definitively answer that question but Wright’s feelings on Israel and the Jews are clearly articulated in the following quotes”"...

The Trouble With Talking to the Taliban"Finally, the Taliban will never honor any agreement it makes. Like most modern insurgencies, its grievances are all pretexts: What it seeks is absolute power, exercised without restraint. We know how that movie ends.
"There's one way and only one way the U.S. could get the Taliban to come to terms: a series of decisive military blows that give them no other option."