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Trapped in a Little Box
 When the administration warned Russian president Putin he was foolishly stumbling into a Syrian quagmire, it spoke from its customary vantage of intellectual superiority. It has been constantly waving the Russian away from what they describe as an unwise choice the way an only adult in the room might speak to a child....President Obama has the habit of offering advice to other leaders, explaining how they should think. ...It must come as a cruel disappointment that so many world leaders disregarded his counsel in 2015, often doing the opposite of what he suggested. ...The president's frustration and anger are palpable. It is as if the world were playing a dirty trick on him. His scholarly estimate of other leaders' behavior seem all off -- and he can't figure out where his calculations have gone wrong. The NYT writes, "bristling at criticism of his own Syria policy, he rejected domestic opponents who offer 'half-baked ideas' that amount to 'a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.'" ...Yet through this ongoing rout Obama may keep insisting that his policy calculations are correct; that his domestic opponents are nothing but 'half-baked' amateurs stuffed full of 'mumbo-jumbo". Despite these pretentions he will unaccountably keep losing to Putin, Iran and even ISIS without being able to understand it. Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal [15] called him the "unteachable president", the man perpetually convinced of his infallibility and yet whose predictions were "one hundred percent wrong. The professor president who loves to talk about teachable moments is himself unteachable. Why is that?" The short, plainspoken answer is because he hasn't got a lick of common sense. Therefore he is doomed to keep losing to vastly weaker enemies, stumbling into catastrophes serially without ever knowing why. It's a sad sight. America so powerful and yet so helpless. IMO, Obama is the inevitable outcome of the affirmative action system Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-04 |
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