TAKE YOUR CARROT AND STICK IT:

How’d we lose Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon? (Richard Grenell, 06/15/10, Daily Caller)

After 17 months of diplomacy, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice was only able to get 12 of the 15 countries on the United Nations Security Council to vote to place increased sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s illegal pursuit of nuclear weapons. Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration’s lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were “abstentions”. Her strategy to minimize the Bush team’s performance in order to make her own poor performance look better isn’t factual. After so much hype about President Barack Obama’s foreign policy engagement strategy, the Obama UN resolution was remarkably weak, took too long to get and received less support than Bush’s team got in producing FIVE Security Council resolutions on Iran.

The President and I are the same age, so I know he's old enough to recall how Carterism worked out (failed to work) last time. So what other conclusion can we draw but that he honestly believed that the force of his own Obamaness would render a different result this time?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 15, 2010 6:16 AM