AS HILLARY CLINTON prepares to leave office, and do whatever, Obama's foreign policy under hillary is being trashed by the usual crew, the ultra conservative automatic obama bashers. The main criticism is that obama's foreign policy lacked aggressiveness, and therefore conveyed weakness.
Hillary should have banged one of her high heels on the podium, and threatened to nuke iran, and, just for good measure, north korea, say the ultra conservatives. Obama should do or say more about syria, they blather. Exactly which is not made clear, nor precisely what. Minor details.
Syria is in the middle of a big civil war; just exactly what is president obama supposed to do or say about it? Can you imagine some foreign country coming over here to america during our iconic civil war and trying to stop it, and fix the problem?
You can only imagine how Grant, Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Lincoln, et al would have taken to that. Like a cat on a hot stove, you reckon. And you can imagine the history books now; united states was in the middle of a bloody civil war when the syrians broke it up and made us declare peace. Ever since, the same north-south animosities have been seething just beneath the surface, but open conflict has been avoided, for fear of renewed syrian intervention.
I mean, come on, let's get real. Even though the united states is currently the greatest military power on earth, it aint god, and cannot control the hearts and minds of a million people in syria. The united states would be better off trying to cooperate with other countries more, and dictating policy to them less. But, when you're a super power, the temptation to throw your weight around is simply too great.
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