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November 23, 2009
Spiegel Online: Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage
Topics: Political News and commentariesAs though we needed reminding, Gabor Steingart notes at Spiegel that when he entered office, Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy, however, his recent trip to Asia showed that it's not working and that Obama's turning out to be "a lot like Jimmy Carter":
[...] There are many indications that the man in charge at the White House will take a tougher stance in the future. Obama's advisors fear a comparison with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, even more than with Bush. Prominent Republicans have already tried to liken Obama to the humanitarian from Georgia, who lost in his bid to win a second term, because voters felt that he was too soft. "Carter tried weakness and the world got tougher and tougher because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators, when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead," Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker in the House of Representatives, recently said. And then he added: "This does look a lot like Jimmy Carter."Geven what we've seen so far, America had better hope that the Obambi administration wakes up to the fact that its liberal-progressive, "touchy-feely," weak, groveling approach to foreign policy is going to accomplish nothing but make America appear weak and destroy our standing in the world - both economically and militarily.
Posted by Richard at November 23, 2009 1:21 PM
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