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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Obama Doctrine, and the Evolution of Foreign Policy
 
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Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
My impression is that one of the main reasons the administration backed away from the Red Line was that Russia appeared unusually willing to support the Assad regime.

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Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

KaptainKrunk posted:

I have my criticisms of Obama's foreign policy, but I think he's given us much more flexibility. Our relationship to Saudi Arabia and Israel wasn't healthy and it took a lot of guts to stand up to them.

A lot of the confusion about our foreign policy comes from the fact that most of his advisers and both of his secretaries of state don't really agree with his basic premise of retrenchment and the relative decline in U.S. power. An unhealthy number of elite foreign policymakers think that we can continue to act like we're still in the 90s.

That's the thing, it's not really a decline in US power. It's not employing hard power in risky ways where soft power seems much more effective. "Don't do stupid poo poo" is actually a pretty comprehensive policy when most things being proposed are stupid.

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