"A foreign policy in epic collapse"

Superb column, not a word wasted:





Krauthammer: Collapse of the Cairo Doctrine

"It’s as axiomatic in statecraft as in physics: Nature abhors a vacuum. Islamists rush in to fill the space and declare their ascendancy. America’s friends are bereft, confused, paralyzed..."

Questions:

What countries, exactly, does Obama consider to be "America's true friends"?  Our primary allies when push comes to shove?  Britain? Israel? India? Germany? Egypt? France? Turkey? Australia? 

All the above?  None of the above?  How much does Obama understand about power blocs and strategic alliances?  Is he really naive enough to think such notions are out-moded, that the UN and NATO are all that's required?  Does he believe that the force of his own rhetoric, personality, and good intentions are powerful enough to carry the day all by themselves?

Who knows?  What we do know is that every aspect of his foreign policy is falling apart -- he's insulted and alienated old friends, and all his kow-towing and other overtures toward supposed new friends and allies (the Muslim Brotherhood? Really?) are being spit back in his face.

What a thoroughgoing disaster of a presidency. When Obama finally leaves government, he'll skip off to make easy millions serving on the boards of appropriately progressive corporations and non-profits, while raking in other millions giving speeches to adoring audiences. He'll be fully convinced that he deserves every bit of that, and more. Surveying the public debt, economic decline, and policy wreckage he'll leave behind, anyone who still harbors some notion of natural justice will need to sit down, toss back a stiff drink or two, and re-think their views about how the world really works.

Byron