January 2, 2015
OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT:
Barack Obama: anatomy of a failure : The President is heir to a mistaken sense of America's place in the world. But he has played a bad hand poorly (Andrew J. Bacevich 3 January 2015, The Spectator)
President George W. Bush's place in history is already guaranteed, fixed by a series of monumental blunders that no amount of revisionism will ever be able to whitewash. By comparison, historians are likely to have a hard time drawing a bead on Barack Obama. How could such an obviously gifted President, swept into office on a wave of immense expectations, have managed to accomplish so little in his attempted management of global affairs? Over the past six years 'Yes, we can!' has become 'No, he hasn't.' What went wrong? [...]For my money, the Obama legacy is likely to be defined by two developments that have not yet fully matured: drones and cyberwarfare. In both of these areas, Obama can claim to have done pioneering work
He's a disappointment to all the right people for all the right reasons.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 2, 2015 6:44 PM
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