Robert Parry: Behind Obama's 'Chaotic' Foreign Policy

[eridani]

In fairness, if he were to develop a strategy which would permanently wind down the imperial state, the PTB would have him assassinated. And there's still a lot to be said for a president not inclined to give in to a "do something" trigger-happy response fo any crisis.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25444-focus-behind-obamas-chaotic-foreign-policy

President Barack Obama’s foreign policy has been disjointed and even incoherent because he has – since taking office in 2009 – pursued conflicting strategies, mixing his own penchant for less belligerent “realism” with Official Washington’s dominant tough-guy ideologies of neoconservatism and its close cousin, “liberal interventionism.”

What this has meant is that Obama often has acted at cross-purposes, inclined to cooperate with sometimes adversaries like Russia on pragmatic solutions to thorny foreign crises, such as Syria’s chemical weapons and Iran’s nuclear program, but other times stoking these and other crises by following neocon demands that he adopt aggressive tactics against Russia, Syria, Iran and other “enemies.”

So, we have Obama covertly arming Syrian rebels, many of whom were interchangeable with Islamic jihadists, but then sending the U.S. military back into Iraq to fight some of these same extremists who spilled back into Iraq, the country where they got their start after President George W. Bush’s neocon-inspired invasion.

We also have Obama spending years ratcheting up sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program – despite Iran’s repeated offers to accept limits that would guarantee no military applications – and now finding that he needs Iran’s help to broker political changes in Iraq.

[Purveyor]

1. All I can say is "dear God in Heaven", could you imagine what the situation would

be if this was the 2 term-2 year in stint under McCain/Palin?

I shudder at the thought.

[bhikkhu]

2. McCain/Palin would probably do like Reagan

Take the most belligerent stance on the highest horse they could find, blow out the budget by handing fat defence contracts to all their biggest corporate supporters, then invade Tuvalu or some-such pushover, while chanting "USA-USA!" to massive acclaim.

[wyldwolf]

3. Is Parry on Hillary's payroll? LOL, just kidding... maybe...

... I'll let you know next week when I see how far this new conspiracy theory goes.

[eridani]

4. I don't want a neocon hawk as president, period n/t