Blog Obama’s Successful Foreign Failure Share This Post Government / Politics Obama’s Successful Foreign Failure By redkudzu_admin on September 8th 2013 No Comments / 186 views By NORMAN PODHORETZ It is entirely understandable that Barack Obama’s way of dealing with Syria in recent weeks should have elicited responses ranging from puzzlement to disgust. Even members of his own party are despairingly echoing in private the public denunciations of him as “incompetent,” “bungling,” “feckless,” “amateurish” and “in over his head” coming from his political opponents on the right. For how else to characterize a president who declares war against what he calls a great evil demanding immediate extirpation and in the next breath announces that he will postpone taking action for at least 10 days—and then goes off to play golf before embarking on a trip to another part of the world? As if this were not enough, he also assures the perpetrator of that great evil that the military action he will eventually take will last a very short time and will do hardly any damage. Unless, that is, he fails to get the unnecessary permission he has sought from Congress, in which case (according to an indiscreet member of his own staff) he might not take any military action after all. Read more… Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Login with: Continue with Facebook Continue with Google Continue with Twitter Foreign Share This Post redkudzu_admin The goal of this site is to give information. Whether from national sites or locally in Georgia. Related Articles Chronology of U.S. – Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy February 11th 2015 ADMIRAL “ACE” LYONS WARNS AMERICA: “WHY WOULD AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT EMBRACE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?” [VIDEO] May 29th 2016 NEW TED CRUZ AD: I fought the United Nations and WON! June 13th 2016