Charles Krauthammer "Barack Obama didn’t appease Osama bin Laden. He killed him. And for ordering the raid and taking the risk, Obama deserves credit. Credit for decisiveness and political courage.
"However, the bin Laden case was no test of policy. No serious person of either party ever suggested negotiation or concession. Obama demonstrated decisiveness, but forgoing a non-option says nothing about the soundness of one’s foreign policy. That comes into play when there are choices to be made.
"And here the story is different. Take Obama’s two major foreign policy initiatives — toward Russia and Iran."
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"The signature decision was the abrupt cancellation of a Polish- and Czech-based U.S. missile defense system bitterly opposed by Moscow.
"The cancellation deeply undercut two very pro-American allies who had aligned themselves with Washington in the face of both Russian threats and popular unease. Obama not only left them twisting in the wind, he showed the world that the Central Europeans’ hard-won independence was only partial and tentative."
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"On Tuesday, with Putin-like contempt, Iran demanded that Obama apologize instead. “Obama begs Iran to give him back his toy plane,” reveled the semiofficial Fars News Agency.
"Just a few hours earlier, Secretary Clinton* asserted yet again that “we want to see the Iranians engage. . . . We are not giving up on it.”
"Blessed are the cheek-turners. But do these people have no limit?"
As president, how would Hillary be stronger than Obama in foreign policy?
Nuclear knowhow, S300 are Iran's price for Russian, Chinese access to US drone Remember, if we are nice to Iran they will be nice to us.
"However, the bin Laden case was no test of policy. No serious person of either party ever suggested negotiation or concession. Obama demonstrated decisiveness, but forgoing a non-option says nothing about the soundness of one’s foreign policy. That comes into play when there are choices to be made.
"And here the story is different. Take Obama’s two major foreign policy initiatives — toward Russia and Iran."
....
"The signature decision was the abrupt cancellation of a Polish- and Czech-based U.S. missile defense system bitterly opposed by Moscow.
"The cancellation deeply undercut two very pro-American allies who had aligned themselves with Washington in the face of both Russian threats and popular unease. Obama not only left them twisting in the wind, he showed the world that the Central Europeans’ hard-won independence was only partial and tentative."
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"On Tuesday, with Putin-like contempt, Iran demanded that Obama apologize instead. “Obama begs Iran to give him back his toy plane,” reveled the semiofficial Fars News Agency.
"Just a few hours earlier, Secretary Clinton* asserted yet again that “we want to see the Iranians engage. . . . We are not giving up on it.”
"Blessed are the cheek-turners. But do these people have no limit?"
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| http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/12/16/94561 |
Nuclear knowhow, S300 are Iran's price for Russian, Chinese access to US drone Remember, if we are nice to Iran they will be nice to us.
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