Scheuer: "Circling the drain" - Obama's weakened position on Foreign Policy

[Cowlesy]

http://security.nationaljournal.com/...at.php#1410048

National Journal asks,

Obama's Weakened Position: What Does It Mean For U.S. Foreign Policy?

Circling the drain
Michael F. Scheuer
Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University

I would not say Obama is weak. I think the the correct adjective is "fantasist." Like his three immediate predecessors, he is an unrepentant interventionist who presses ahead with already lost overseas adventures and tries to insulate them by dreaming things up to hide reality from the electorate that is paying for them in taxes and the lives of their soldier-children. On our non-war with Islam, here are just a few of the recent howlers from Obama's administration: (a) there are moderates in the Taleban --up to 80 percent -- who will come to our side for cash and a job; (b) bin Laden is desparate and irrelevant but he is certain to launch a major attack on CONUS in 3-to-6 months; (c) we can exploit the split (?) between the Taleban and al-Qaeda; (d) the Saudis will help Karzai to acheive a settlement acceptable to the U.S. and NATO; (e) Pakistan will help us defeat the Taleban and al-Qaeda for the $3 billion we are forking over to the thief Zadari; and (f) more U.S. money for Yemen will allow its government to defeat al-Qaeda. Weak can be coped with; fantasies and/or stupidity pose a higher hurdle.

Bam!

[Liberty Star]

Very telling.

Obama's handlers seem to think that all mid-level sustained level of violence/bribery combo and drone attacks killing civilians and suspects from air will not create more terrorists and future blowbacks. And these people had the nerve to call Bush "stupid".

[HOLLYWOOD]

Michael F. Scheuer needs to up his stats... Pakistan is receiving an additional $2 billion in REIMBURSEMENT expenses in the FY2011 budget for "Expenses incurred fight the terror war".

item needs to be added: (g) US troops and CIA in Pakistan... WHICH, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refuses to acknowledge beyond "advisors"

Simply, it doesn't matter... Obama is a puppet to the; MONEY MASTERS, NEOCONS, and ZIONISTS that pull his strings, especially that silent global Terrorist group called, The National Security Council (NSC).

[Liberty Star]

There are advisers and then their are supposed "journalists":

The soldiers killed Wednesday were driving to attend the inauguration of a girl's school, but the school that was damaged in the blast was not the one where the convoy was heading.

Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the incident was still under review, said at least one of the three American soldiers was a member of a unit designed to help local authorities publicize positive news -- in this case, apparently, the opening of a girls school, which the embassy said had been renovated with U.S. humanitarian assistance.

Two local journalists in the convoy were under the impression that the soldiers, who were in civilian clothes, were American journalists because of comments from a Pakistani soldier suggesting that was the case.

Express TV reporter Amjad Ali Shah said as the convoy was about to leave from a paramilitary base, a Pakistani soldier entered the room and said to an officer, ''Sir, the foreign journalists have arrived,'' in an apparent reference to the American contingent.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Rick Snelsire said authorities were looking into how the soldiers were presented.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010...-Pakistan.html

[Cowlesy]

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[LibertyEagle]

I love Scheuer.