That President Obama has been a singularly weak leader in foreign policy and national security is a view that was held by the entire field of Republican candidates for President this year, a sizable percentage of the American people and, perhaps to some degree, even Hillary Rodham Clinton, an exponent of a more conventionally muscular approach to American world leadership. Obama’s emphasis on the limits of U.S. power and the intractability of global challenges, along with his seeming aversion to “big box” military action indeed mark a change from the heroic style of presidential leadership the public has been accustomed …read more
Source: The American Interest
