Barack Obama’s foreign policy dream — cordial relations
with a Middle East tranquilized by “smart diplomacy” — is in a death grapple
with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. He
has a glutton’s, rather than a gourmet’s, appetite for his own rhetorical
cuisine, and he has talked America to the precipice of a fourth military
intervention in the crescent that extends from Libya to Afghanistan.
Characterizing the 2011 Libyan project with weirdly
passive syntax (“It is our military that is being volunteered by others to
carry out missions”), he explained his sashay into Libya’s civil war as
preemptive: “I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves
before taking action.”
With characteristic self-satisfaction, Obama embraced the
doctrine “R2P” — responsibility to protect civilians — and Libya looked like an
opportunity for an inexpensive morality gesture using high explosives….To ReadMore….
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