[PJ Media] BLUF: Hoekstra criticized President Obama for believing the "power of his personality" would bring peace to the Middle East.
"This president, as he did in Egypt, as he's done in Iran, as he's done in Syria, has decided that in America's best interest he believes he can manage, work with, but most importantly he believed that because of the power of his personality the radical jihadist movement would fundamentally change their view of America and change their behavior," he said.
Hoekstra cited a quote from Obama in November 2007 during his first run for president.
"I truly believe that the day I'm inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently," Obama said at the time. "If I'm reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I've lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view."
According to Hoekstra, that statement demonstrates Obama thought every country in the Middle East would change their worldview and "national self-interest" after he entered the White House, which he argued has not happened.
Overall, Hoekstra said, the U.S. is worse off strategically than it was on Sept. 11, 2001.
"The threat to us and to our allies, to Western Europe, today is greater than what it was then," he said.
#2
weakest foreign policy president in living memory and that is saying something for those who remember the triangulations of william jefferson clinton
however the trade off for being insular is supposed to be a focus on domestic affairs. And have they improved? No. Last i checked the US was in the middle of a race war between young black thugs and cops
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Worst President ever! Narcissistic and congenital liar. The damage he has done to the economy/debt will never be repaired and the shredding of the constitution marks the beginnings of Imperial Presidencies unless God does something to save the Republic, cause the dems don't want to and the pubs are afraid to do what is necessary.
#10
...and there's just too much $$$ and power concentrated in the DC-NY axis. They're not going to give it up. It's cooked. You can stick a fork in it. There is no 'right' man/person who can fix it. Either you choose your Caesar or they'll choose theirs. It's as much a republic as the Roman's under their imperators. The Latin word imperator was originally a title roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic.
[Hot Air] Readers will recall that General Mike Flynn, then director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, warned Congress about the rise of ISIS in late 2013, warnings which prompted Barack Obama to compare ISIS to a "jayvee team" in an interview with the New Yorker. Flynn's DIA had warned the White House about ISIS even earlier than that, in an August 2012 memo issued shortly after Flynn assumed command of DIA and chair of the Military Intelligence Board. Now Obama expresses surprise over the rapid rise of ISIS and wants an investigation into CENTCOM and the alleged cooking of the evidence, but Flynn tells Megyn Kelly that the probe should start at the top -- and that Obama got plenty of warnings
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