Name one person who does.
“ 'Why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force?” Obama recently and plaintively asked about Ukraine. In reality, nobody is. What actual earthlings are eager for is sending military assistance to Ukraine’s woefully equipped forces."
From the UK: President Barack Obama's national security flops just keep coming ; A strange obsession with setting out his national security agenda is backfiring for President Barack Obama
... "The reception for the speech was dire.
"The Washington Post declared that he had “marshaled a virtual corps of straw men,” in making an argument for an “Obama doctrine” that was at odds with every US president since the Second World War.
"Aside from the very serious real-world consequences, Obama’s foreign policy failure also has serious political consequences."
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"And his foreign policy doctrine is unprecedented in modern America, somewhat arbitrary, ill-conceived, and utterly lacking in moral clarity. More and more, it appears he has reverse engineered a foreign policy, based primarily on doing the opposite of George W. Bush did, as opposed to overtly crafting a wise and coherent foreign policy strategy going forward."
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Starting with his disdain, even hatred, of British colonialism, and, by extension, American "colonialism" (very much more perceived than reality), he has determined to take America down a notch or two (if not altogether). It's all in his book, "Dreams from My Father" and whatever the name of the other one is. Note that it is from his father, his Nigerian father who was opposed to and fought against the British in Africa.
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