Foreign Policy “Mess”
P. Schultz
December 30, 2012
“Obama…To
Fix Flaws.” A partial headline from an article in the NY Times, linked here,
about how Obama saw the attack in Benghazi as a result of “messiness” that was
“unintentional” and that now he or the State Department will fix it. On the
other hand, Lindsey Graham is trying to hold up hearings on John Kerry’s
appointment as Secretary of State until Hillary Clinton testifies about
Benghazi before the Senate. Graham is characterized as one of the harshest
critics of the Obama administration’s handling of Benghazi.
What is
most interesting to me is that no one is raising the question of our
involvement in Libya and our support for the “rebels” there. It is as if both
the administration and its critics take a janitor’s point of view toward our
foreign policy: Clean up “the messes” and things will be alright. This is an
interesting mindset, to say the least, because it is not as if our foreign
policy has generally been successful to any great extent in the recent past.
But that there might be something wrong with that policy is not a possibility
to be considered by either of our political parties.
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