Hawks of both parties have been taking swipes at the “overly cautious” Barack Obama over the many foreign policy “crises” he recently has been trying to juggle. The general line of their analysis is that the world is going to hell, and Obama is doing nothing about it. The denigration has had the effect of lowering Obama’s public approval ratings in foreign policy. Yet that criticism ignores history and logic.
Among the adverse developments that Obama is currently dealing with include the radical Islamic State group taking over a substantial part of northern Iraq, Vladimir Putin’s …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
