That is the title of John Hannah's excellent post at The Corner. Hannah is a
former aide to Dick Cheney. You should read it all, but here are some key
excerpts:
> Inside the whirlwind of the Middle East's current turmoil, it's easy to lose
sight of the fact that the Obama administration's original strategy for the
region has crashed and burned. Recall its key elements. ...
>
> All of it now lies largely in tatters. Obama's outreach to Iran and Syria
was greeted with predictable contempt. His quixotic fixation on the holy grail
of a settlements freeze left peace talks dead in the water. The explosion of
popular unrest that first shook Iran in 2009, and which is now sweeping Arab
lands, exposed the intellectual vacuity of Obama's studied disregard of the
region's freedom deficit. Similarly, the president's seeming inability to
grasp America's vital interest in Iraq's success, and his headlong rush for
the exits by the end of 2011, has rendered that country's democratic
experiment increasingly untethered and at the mercy of Iran's Islamic
Republic.
>
> An instinct for reassuring hardened enemies, disregarding longtime friends,
and distrusting the exercise of American power. These were, unfortunately, ...
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