Maariv, Israel Standing Beside the Street: On Obama’s Policy By Shmuel Rosner
Obama does not have a grand strategy to furnish an explanation for why he decided to assist in bringing down Gadhafi, and, on the contrary, not to intervene in Syria; why he decided to jettison Mubarak, and nevertheless, not suggest, or even hint, a similar move in Bahrain...
The U.S. President interferes only where he has a chance to exert influence and is confident that the street would win. The Middle East rulers are not content, but the American public is.
Nobody is happy with Obama’s foreign policy. Nobody – except for the American voters.
The Pakistani Foreign Minister made a phone call yesterday to her counterpart, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to protest the NATO forces’ attack within Pakistan; the Saudis and Turks run a foreign policy of their own while maintaining a reasonable level of communication — however, not coordination, with the American administration; Obama’s ex-ambassador to China, who today is also a (chanceless) presidential candidate on behalf of the rival party, said a week ago that the President “can’t lead.” In October, Abdullah the King of Jordan noted: “Looking at how quickly people turned their backs on Mubarak” – that is, how Obama abandoned the Egyptian president deposed when the Arab Spring was still a spring — “I would say that most people are going to try and go their own way.”
As it was mentioned, almost no one is pleased except for those who really matter to Obama: the voters. A little more than a year before the elections, only 35 percent of Americans (a month ago it was closer to 25 percent) are opining that Obama takes a good care of economic problems — and that is the decisive issue in the eyes of the large majority of voters.
But, and this is an important “but,” under the current political circumstances, 49 percent of them are satisfied with what Obama is doing in international policy, compared to only 43 percent who are not. Should the chieftains of the Egyptian regime, or the Israeli prime minister, or the Saudi king have complaints, the Americans do not show particular empathy to those criticisms.......................>>>>.....................>>>>....................http://watchingamerica.com/News/132480/standing-beside-the-street-on-obama’s-policy/
Q. Who is most unhappy with Obama's Foreign Policy???
A. Osama BinLaden!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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