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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
The John Wayne comparison seems to be a compliment from an Obama advisor.
The article, however, does attack Obama's lack of a grand strategy in foreign affairs.
Would like to see what the GOP candidate will do once he/she emerges from the Tampa GOP Convention. Hopefully, he/she will not be someone with a cowboy mentality with respect to foreign affairs.
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This, from your link, nails it...
"As even Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski noted in the same New Yorker article, President Obama “doesn’t strategize. He sermonizes.” That’s a pretty strong indictment from one of the most influential Democrats in the world of US foreign policy, and himself a former adviser to Obama."
Folks have been saying this from day 1....and why the comments on Bush are made is not understood, since the subject is Obama's foreign policy (or lack thereof) I can see only one reason to mention Bush....Obama has maintained just about 100% of what Bush was doing in the war against terror....all those things that he ridiculed the Bush administration have been embraced and in some cases made a bigger part of the policy. He is now allowing US citizens to be killed overseas if a suspect (not saying bad but that was one his additions) and is using drones a lot (sometimes kills innocent folks and that is not meant to be a criticism either)...the two items in parens are mentioned because of the tone of his campaign toward the Bush administration...he would have "sermonized" on both at that time.
This man has always been a lecturer...that is his forte and what he has done all of his life, thus the "sermonize" remark.
You cannot conduct foreign relations by giving sermons. Sermons are and have been his answer to almost everything.
Also not sure why the comment about he Rep candidates...the thread and the article are about what a sitting President has done or not done.