I don’t think there is a Diplomacy 101 class that will prepare you to deal with crises like we are having in Egypt, North Africa and the Islamic countries east to Saudi Arabia so it’s understandable that President Obama’s diplomatic A-Team are not All Stars; some wouldn’t even make varsity. I guess that since there weren’t any proven diplomats in the Clinton Administration there weren’t any Obama could bring back onto the current team except lightweights.
Like every President, Obama will be judged years later on how he and his team deal with this whole affair. I don’t think there is a right answer and a wrong answer when you have to make decisions in the moment with the information available at your disposal in that moment until time passes and in hind sight we can judge right and wrong. (It won’t keep us from second guessing him though.)
It’s unfortunate that our states-people are having to learn on the job that what we say matters on the world stage. If it weren’t so important in the politics of the world, it would be comical watching James Clapper and Leon Panetta fumble with their testimony before Congress.
They want so much to say that the Muslim Brotherhood is a harmless organization with only a few bad apple terrorists on their fringe because that fits their political goals, but the truth is the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization with a few harmless peaceniks on their fringe. How do Clapper and Panetta justify taking a paycheck for such incompetence.
If there wasn’t so much evidence that refutes their testimony we would normally accept their testimony as the gospel and that would be dangerous. Thank God that these guys are so obviously incompetent or creatively prevaricating that they have no credibility what-so-ever.
The Obama Team is not winning any points for diplomacy after their first two years in office and this Egypt crisis does not bode well for the next two years. I hope our country survives.
In the interest of full disclosure, I did not take that diplomacy class either but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 7:04 am in Foreign Affairs | RSS feed
|
Reply |
Trackback URL
No Loss for Words
Do We Grade Presidents on the Curve?
by Steve DanaI don’t think there is a Diplomacy 101 class that will prepare you to deal with crises like we are having in Egypt, North Africa and the Islamic countries east to Saudi Arabia so it’s understandable that President Obama’s diplomatic A-Team are not All Stars; some wouldn’t even make varsity. I guess that since there weren’t any proven diplomats in the Clinton Administration there weren’t any Obama could bring back onto the current team except lightweights.
Like every President, Obama will be judged years later on how he and his team deal with this whole affair. I don’t think there is a right answer and a wrong answer when you have to make decisions in the moment with the information available at your disposal in that moment until time passes and in hind sight we can judge right and wrong. (It won’t keep us from second guessing him though.)
It’s unfortunate that our states-people are having to learn on the job that what we say matters on the world stage. If it weren’t so important in the politics of the world, it would be comical watching James Clapper and Leon Panetta fumble with their testimony before Congress.
They want so much to say that the Muslim Brotherhood is a harmless organization with only a few bad apple terrorists on their fringe because that fits their political goals, but the truth is the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization with a few harmless peaceniks on their fringe. How do Clapper and Panetta justify taking a paycheck for such incompetence.
If there wasn’t so much evidence that refutes their testimony we would normally accept their testimony as the gospel and that would be dangerous. Thank God that these guys are so obviously incompetent or creatively prevaricating that they have no credibility what-so-ever.
The Obama Team is not winning any points for diplomacy after their first two years in office and this Egypt crisis does not bode well for the next two years. I hope our country survives.
In the interest of full disclosure, I did not take that diplomacy class either but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Rate this:
Share this:
Related
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 7:04 am in Foreign Affairs | RSS feed | Reply | Trackback URL