Tuesday, March 5, 2013

How's Obama looking around the world?

From the UK Telegraph: Barack Obama a 'dithering, controlling, risk-averse' US president
" "The president had a truly disturbing habit of funnelling major foreign policy decisions through a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White House advisers whose turf was strictly politics," Mr Nasr writes in The Dispensable Nation: America Foreign policy in Retreat."
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" "American foreign policy has been on a four-year autopilot, which I argue has been excessively risk averse and domestically focused. I don't see any clear decision yet to change that," said Mr Nasr in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
" "I wrote this book to problematise the way Obama has approached this whole region, and that it is dangerous to disengage and confuse a low-level foreign policy with success in foreign policy," he concluded."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Presenting the next Director of the [Obama] CIA!!!

"...I think that it is unimportant if Obama is or isn't a Muslim. I don't care whom they pray to. 
"The question is whether their world view, and their policies would be any different if they were Muslims. And I think the answer to that is no. And since it is their policies, not their beliefs that matter to the world, they should be judged for that."  In this speech, Brennan refers to Jerusalem by its Arabic name, "Al-Quds".

 US plan for UN to endorse Khamenei’s fatwa? Shock in Jerusalem US "....President Barack’s Obama’s circle in Washington was studying a bizarre plan for the opposite objective.
"It surfaced in an article published Tuesday, Feb. 12, by Ambassador Thomas Pickering, a veteran American diplomat who is influential in the framing of Obama’s Iranian policy.
"This what he wrote: “In years past, he (Khamenei) issued a fatwa condemning nuclear weapons. Washington could take advantage of this fact by drafting a UN Security Council resolution endorsing the fatwa. This could be a small step toward boosting Khamenei’s international profile while simultaneously pressuring Iran to follow its own religious decree.”
"Instead of dismantling these rogue nuclear programs, Pickering was proposing to legitimize Iran’s possession of a nuclear bomb capacity that only stopped one step short of assembling a bomb."

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