| New Book Claim: Barack Obama a 'dithering, controlling, risk-averse' US president | |
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| Baldo | Mar 4 2013, 08:39 PM Post #1 |
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Barack Obama a 'dithering, controlling, risk-averse' US president Barack Obama is a "dithering" president whose controlling tendencies and extreme risk-averse attitude to foreign policy has damaged US interests in the Middle East, according to a new book by a senior former State Department adviser. The insider-account of the damaging divisions between the White House and the State Department comes as diplomats around the world wait to see if John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, can persuade Mr Obama to greater engagement on Syria, Egypt and the wider Middle East. Vali Nasr, a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, records his profound disillusion at how a "Berlin Wall" of domestic-focused advisers was erected to protect Mr Obama. "The president had a truly disturbing habit of funnelling major foreign policy decisions through a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White House advisers whose turf was strictly politics," Mr Nasr writes in The Dispensable Nation: America Foreign policy in Retreat. The book sets out in detail how Mr Holbrooke, appointed with great fanfare in 2009, was systematically cut out of decision making as both he and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, tried to argue the merits of engaging with the Taliban and the dangers caused by the overuse of drones....snipped ... Admiral Mike Mullen, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 2011, is quoted lamenting how little support Mrs Clinton received from the White House, even though she remained on good personal terms with Mr Obama. "They want to control everything," Admiral Mullen is quoted as saying of a White House that Prof Nasr says was "ravenous" in its desire to manage foreign policy, even by the to-be-expected standards of turf wars between diplomatic and national security teams...snipped http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9908260/Barack-Obama-a-dithering-controlling-risk-averse-US-president.html Chicago Thugs It is an opinion but from what I have seen we are rudderless, adrift in a stormy ocean with a drunk on power Captain who is incompetent in just about everything he touches. Except in vacations and spending borrowed money. Edited by Baldo, Mar 4 2013, 08:41 PM.
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| Mason | Mar 4 2013, 08:59 PM Post #2 |
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. Obama's books (Pre-election) are just scary. What has he identified and avoided in his political career? Did he see the Housing Crisis looming? Did he see Fanny and Freddie as potential dangerous? The Arab Spring was another campaign out of the WH like pinning HIS Sequester on Republicans. It seems his victories are tied to people not being informed and low information voters choosing to believe him (almost) every time. He's an Empty suit that has a formula for campaigning with a Media that has a Cultish love of him. . |
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| LTC8K6 | Mar 5 2013, 12:13 AM Post #3 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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You'd think Kerry would not be a good choice, then. |
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| longstop | Mar 5 2013, 10:29 AM Post #4 |
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All cut from the same cloth. http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/we_have_ted_cruzs_list_harvard_law_really_islittered_with_communists.html |
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