Give me a break:
America's foreign policy has gone into a tailspin. Almost every major initiative from the Obama administration has run into sharp, sometimes embarrassing, reverses. The U.S. looks weak and confused on the global stage.
This might come as happy news to some opponents of the administration who enjoy seeing Barack Obama fail, but it shouldn't.
I've applauded when we've done things I think are right.
Other reporters have noted the irony that President Obama got more support from Republicans than from Democrats for the Afghan surge (with Iraq over, they stopped talking about Afghanistan as the "good war"), refusing to immediately withdraw from Iraq, killing jihadis, and other moves that defend America. But not this reporter. Oh, no. She sees Republican glee in our failures because they reflect poorly on President Obama.
Excuse me while I scream "project much?" It seems just like yesterday that Democrats were trying to defund the Iraq War even as that surge was showing results! So don't talk to me about what you should enjoy seeing and what you shouldn't. But that was holy dissent, wasn't it? Downright Patriotic, it was. Way different.
I want a successful foreign policy. I take no joy from seeing an administration in action which has proven it can't pour water out of a boot when the instructions are printed on the heel.
Which is why I cringe whenever I see our administration act on foreign affairs. And I knew it would get worse this term. We have one president and I experience no joy in watching him embolden our enemies and discourage our friends.
I freaking pray that we'll be successful.
Funny enough, the writer seems to think all this tailspin can have a silver lining because she would enjoy seeing Barack Obama embrace the problem and sail:
The problem, ironically, is tailor-made for none other than President Obama. Although there is no denying that he bears the brunt of the responsibility for the problem, he is someone who has shown a talent for distilling overarching ideas from competing narratives. ...
It is time for Obama to spend some time thinking about what America stands for, what its goals are and then explain it in a clear and credible way.
But she shouldn't enjoy seeing that. Can you effing believe that analysis? We look weak and confused on the world stage, she says. But it's only because President Obama hasn't taken enough time to really think about foreign policy! Gosh, if only he's spend less time golfing and more time on Presidential Daily Briefings!
Get a room, ma'am. The man effs up our foreign policy but he is so brilliant he is the best person to fix it? Are you kidding me? This is one step from asking the president, with a head tilt and sigh while twirling a loose strand of hair, if he is so God-like that he can make a boulder so big that even he can't lift it? But no worries, he can, I guess.
Sadly for our president, our media isn't the global media. So it is unlikely that his domestic narrative-spinning can work abroad. Ghitas is going to have to accept that either the president isn't brilliant enough to conduct a good foreign policy; or he is conducting exactly the foreign policy he wants.
Tip to Neo-Neocon at Legal Insurrection (via Instapundit).
UPDATE: Fancy that. A photo of President Obama getting his PDB from Ms. Rice.
She's probably explaining how they are looking for the crappy Internet video responsible for that rage that led him to close our diplomatic facilities.
