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February 11, 2009

PJM: 'Obama Hopelessly Adrift on Foreign Policy'

The money quote from Kim Zigfield's excellent piece addressing what Zigfield refers to as a ""truly frightening exchange" that "occurred between Barack Obama and Helen Thomas at Obama's first press conference on Monday"":

"[...] This may well be one of the most horrifying excerpts from a press-conference transcript in U.S. presidential history. It's hard to know where to begin in documenting the carnage.

First, in the middle of one of the great economic crises the country has experienced, at his very first press conference, and just before being asked about Islamic terrorism and nuclear weapons, Obama is joking like a schoolboy.

Second, Obama states: "It's not acceptable for Pakistan or for us to have folks who, with impunity, will kill innocent men, women and children." For us? Perhaps by this bizarre statement Obama meant not only Pakistan but any country assisting terrorists must be opposed by U.S. policy, but it came out sounding as if the U.S. was somehow itself fostering terrorism.

Third, Obama states: "With respect to nuclear weapons, you know, I don't want to speculate. What I know is this: that if we see a nuclear arms race in a region as volatile as the Middle East, everybody will be in danger." Isn't a nuclear arms race already underway in the Middle East? Isn't it Obama's job to know which countries there have such weapons, without speculating?

And then finally, inevitably, Obama jumps the rails. He states: "And one of my goals is to prevent nuclear proliferation generally. I think that it's important for the United States, in concert with Russia, to lead the way on this. And, you know, I've mentioned this in conversations with the Russian president, Mr. Medvedev, to let him know that it is important for us to restart the -- the conversations about how we can start reducing our nuclear arsenals in an effective way so that we then have the standing to go to other countries and start stitching back together the nonproliferation treaties that, frankly, have been weakened over the last several years."

[...] Obama, meanwhile, is behaving in exactly the way one would expect a leader with no foreign policy experience or credentials to behave. In other words, he's hopelessly and depressingly adrift."

Posted by Hyscience at February 11, 2009 11:12 AM

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