Former Obama advisor: Our foreign policy is a mess — especially in the Middle East
Hotair ^ | OCTOBER 19, 2012 | ED MORRISSEY
Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012
With the last of the three presidential debates taking place in just three days, and with Barack Obama on his heels in polling after the first two, one would expect Obama allies to come out of the woodwork to sing his praises on foreign policy, the topic of Monday night’s forum. After all, Democrats — including Obama himself — bragged six weeks ago at the Democratic convention that Obama would bury Mitt Romney in this arena.
Instead, former Obama administration Defense undersecretary and State Department adviser Rosa Brooks writes at Foreign Policy that her former boss’ team on foreign policy desperately needs an intervention, and that Obama needs to finally get involved by doing more than giving a few speeches:...
.Brooks offers a devastating set of suggestions to improve the situation, each one an indictment of Obama’s foreign-policy management over the last four years:
Get a strategy. Get some decent managers. Get people who actually know something. Get out of the bubble. Get a backbone. Er … shouldn’t those have been Day One tasks? If a President still has these five tasks on his to-do list on foreign policy almost four years into his term, it’s safe to say that he’s not interested — or competent — enough to accomplish them.
By the way, Brooks hammers Obama on point 3 for letting cronyism conquer over talent and experience:
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