The way our system of governance is set up, the President is given lots of discretion in foreign policy. Which in Obama’s case means a license to mess up. Compounding matters, Obama’s Republican opposition is focused on repairing the damage he caused at home in the past two years and, thanks to the influence of the Tea Party movement, they express little interest in affairs abroad to begin with. So now we have the worst of all worlds: Executive incompetence laced with Congressional indifference.
As it turns out, none of this could come at a worse time. The Middle East has unexpectedly become an erupting volcano and everything in the region is in a state of flux. Amidst all the fire and brimstone, America is losing out to Iran and its fundamentalist proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza – and now the Muslim Brotherhood has been set loose in Egypt. Just think, Iran is becoming hegemonic even before it has an H-bomb. Et tu, Jordan and Saudi Arabia?
As Mark Steyn observes in The Superpower As Spectator, when we create a power vacuum in the Middle East it’s a green light for bad guys to rush in and fill it.
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