Posted by
Far_view on Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:15:37 AM
Good piece
here by
former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton pointing out how naive Barack
Obama's foreign policy statements are. A couple of key paragraphs:
"Consider
his facile observations about President Kennedy's first meeting with
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a
meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an
embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy
performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to
position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the
Cold War's most dangerous crises.
Such realities should cause
Obama to become more circumspect, minimizing his off-the-cuff
observations about history, grand strategy and diplomacy. In fact, he
has done exactly the opposite, exhibiting so many gaps in his knowledge
and understanding of world affairs that they have not yet received the
attention they deserve. He consistently reveals failings in foreign
policy that are far more serious than even his critics had previously
imagined."