Obama admits what Bush couldn't and Blair won't

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President Obama backed down on that decision because he had no support in the UN.

Poor vision on Obama's part revealed weakness; the basis of his foreign policy.

 

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Sarah Palin was roundly criticized for being unable to quickly and succinctly describe the "Bush Doctrine", but at least the mainstream media and liberals realized that there was one. Can anyone describe what the Obama doctrine is regarding foreign policy? I dare you. Therein lies the problem.

 

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What actually happened..



What Bush presented to the world.

Link.

Try again?

You did not read far enough into your own link:

"Ashton B. Carter, an assistant secretary of defense under President Clinton who is now co-director of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project, agreed that Iraq was a turning point in convincing Colonel Qaddafi to give up his weapons."

 

[Kal'Stang]

What worries me with the West's meddling in the M.E. is that we don't plan or consider the consequences of our actions; Hussein was removed and that failure to garrison troops or create some form of replacement policing machine created the mess we see now in Iraq and then within 15 years of that salutory lesson we removed Ghaddafi and left even quicker.

I have read that had there been a stationing of western troops as we saw in South Korea then things might have been more peaceful but I'm not so sure as Korea was so different.

Anyhow, at least we have had a confession from one of the wests leaders in these events - time for others to also step forward.

Kudos to Obama for admitting that mistake.