June 4, 2012
MAYBE WE MISUNDERSTOOD THE SPEECH...:
On foreign policy, Obama focuses on economic issues, not on Syrian turmoil (Scott Wilson, 6/03/12, Washington Post)
[I]n the furious aftermath of a massacre in Syria that resulted in the deaths of 108 civilians, most of them women and children, Obama has remained quiet. The reticence from a president who has made repairing America's moral leadership in the region a central premise of his administration, and who delivered a speech from the heart of the Arab world three years ago designed to do just that, has disturbed those pressing for stronger international response to the crisis."There was a time when this president looked for opportunities to put his imprint on world events," said Jon B. Alterman, the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "He's doing less and less of that now, and the reason may have to do with the campaign."
...but wasn't the point of the Cairo teleprompt that Mr. Obama would not lead based on what was morally right, the way his Christianist predecessor had? Silence on Syria is just Realism at its most abhorrent. (Which is why he'll be forced to intercede even if it's bad domestic politics.)
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 4, 2012 5:55 AM
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