WSJ "A serious foreign-policy intellectual said recently that Putin’s problem is that
he’s a Russian leader in search of a Nixon, a U.S. president he can really
negotiate with, a stone player who can talk grand strategy and the needs of his
nation, someone with whom he can thrash it through and work it out. Instead he
has Obama, a self-besotted charismatic who can’t tell the difference between
showbiz and strategy, and who enjoys unburdening himself of moral insights to
his peers. "....
"All this, if it is roughly correct, is going to make the president’s speech tonight quite remarkable. It will be a White House address in which a president argues for an endeavor he is abandoning. It will be a president appealing for public support for an action he intends not to take.
"We’ve never had a presidential speech like that!"
...."Then get ready for the spin job of all spin jobs. It’s already begun: the White
House is beginning to repeat that a diplomatic solution only came because the
president threatened force. That is going to be followed by something that will
grate on Republicans, conservatives, and foreign-policy journalists and
professionals. But many Democrats will find it sweet, and some in the political
press will go for it, if for no other reason than it’s a new story line."
....
"..this White House is full of people who know nothing—really nothing—about
history. They’ve only seen movies."
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