Canuck57 wrote:
On 30/03/2011 1:33 PM, John H wrote:
...that the liberals here probably don't want noticed:

"The fact is, close to five years after 9/11 and fifteen years after
the breakup
of the Soviet Union, the United States still lacks a coherent national
security
policy. Instead of guiding principles, we have what appear to be a
series of ad
hoc decisions, with dubious results. Why invade Iraq and not North
Korea or
Burma? Why intervene in Bosnia and not Darfur? ...Are we committed to
use force
wherever there’s a despotic regime that’s terrorizing its people—and
if so, how
long do we stay to ensure democracy takes root? ...Perhaps someone
inside the
White House has clear answers to these questions. But our allies - and
for that
matter our enemies-certainly don’t know what the answers are. More
important,
neither do the American people. Without a well-articulated strategy
that the
public supports and the world understands, America will lack the
legitimacy -
and ultimately the power - it needs to make the world safer than it is
today."

--Barack Obama. "The Audacity of Hope" (2006), page 302.




'We don’t get very hung up on this question of precedent. We don’t make
decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or
precedent."

- Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, March 28, 2011

Obama has a foreign policy, destroy international relations and trust.
Help Al-Qaeda affiliates in Libya. I don't agree with it but do find him
consistent.

Any number of important world leaders and polls indicate just the
opposite, that since the Dunce left office, the esteem in which the USA
is held has risen. thanks to the Obama Administration.