How far post-America has fallen from the issuing of red lines:
Serious discussions are being held over an approaching end to the bloody civil war in Syria. Russia, Turkey and Iran will be participating. The U.S., however, was not invited.
Our exclusion, former UN Ambassador John Bolton told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday, is "really remarkable" and is a result of the Obama administration's weak foreign policy, which has diminished our international clout.
"It's a sign of the times," Bolton said. "It is a precise reflection of the diminution of American influence under the Obama administration."
The State Department, however, is insisting their absence is nothing out of the ordinary.
“It wasn’t about being kicked out of the party,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said. “There have always been multilateral discussions about Syria that we haven’t been a party to and this is another one. I totally understand that.”
Kirby said the administration would welcome any better outcome in Syria – whether or not they’re part of the discussion.
The U.S., he said, is still going to be a leader in this effort.
Well, the Most Equal Comrade told us in his last press conference as dictator of post-America that his rule has been a series of foreign-policy successes.
Exactly what form of success would one look for in the middle east?
ReplyDeleteA neighborhood of nations none of which had any animosity to the West.
ReplyDeleteSo your solution is more war since statecraft is not resulting in a region to your liking? Trump's beginning to look a lot like Nixon. Everywhere I look, there's generals in control, bombs are gonna roll.....
ReplyDeleteLet's clarify what you mean by "solution." How are you defining the problem? My focus at present is that the US is not even being included in discussions about resolving the Syrian morass. It's been sidelined. Eclipsed. It is not regarded as a world-stage leader by Russia or Iran, let alone a wider array of countries, such as China.
ReplyDeleteLet's clarify what you mean by "solution." How are you defining the problem? My focus at present is that the US is not even being included in discussions about resolving the Syrian morass. It's been sidelined. Eclipsed. It is not regarded as a world-stage leader by Russia or Iran, let alone a wider array of countries, such as China.
ReplyDeleteThe solution seems past tense, we were sidelined. Maybe that's a blessing, commitment to intervention in the middle east has a poor record. Was it the Egyptians who created journalism? Conquer you're enemy by absorbing their culture ?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is leave people to police their own state for better or worse. Then in the true sense of a Machiavellian nature just pick up the pieces at a discount. Yes I agree it is statecraft vs. Warcraft
Battle line being drawn, Trump talking tough, and often doing for show, says the US needs to bolster its nuke arsenal, overturning 6 decades of policy. I never believed the bloggie's contention that our alleged decline was intentional, but WTF is this? I think I understood the Tao of Obama. It was jut what Michael says, leave the people to police their own state for better or worse. But, you know what? There are too many Big Money concerns in these regions to just let it all play out naturally, of course, always the best way. We also got this idea that Israel must have its way now. We'll wait, watch and see what Big Bully the Trumpster comes up with next in his intentional grandiosity.
ReplyDeleteMake that nearly 5 decades of policy. The first nuclear non-proliferation treaty was signed in 1968 but it has been a hot button (which the vile Trump and his Generals now have their grubby hands accessible to) since we dropped the first 2 big ones, slaughtering 10s of thousands of civilians to set precedent.
ReplyDeleteAhh, but game was long over for keeping women and children out of the equation. Burn mutha burn!
ReplyDeleteOh, and China? Forees "new, complicated and uncertain factors affecting bilateral relations" under the Trump administration." Take me back to that lie of intentionality will ya? http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-says-it-will-cooperate-with-trump-but-warns-on-taiwan/ar-BBxrekU?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5JDHP
ReplyDeleteSo you think it would have been better for millions to die in a land invasion of Japan?
ReplyDeleteYour attempt to throw up a smokescreen by bringing up what Trump's team may or may not do is a transparent avoidance of the issue at hand. As is your inability to substantiate your idiotic claim that the decline has not been planned. The evidence that it has is overwhelming. This blog has presented it exhaustively.