Obama’s foreign policy haunts Trump and the United States

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Just as the cloaking media fog created by the Obama administration has begun to fade, former president Barack Obama is reportedly planning his reemergence into the political arena. Good — it seems to be perfect timing, as he has some explaining to do. Specifically, the willfully hidden deficiencies and delusions of the Obama administration’s foreign policy are emerging as some of President Trump’s most consequential and urgent problems. Forgive me if this piece runs a little long, but any discussion of Obama’s foreign policy blunders does not lend itself to brevity.

For starters, it was discovered that in 2016, a possible “acoustic attack” targeted U.S. diplomatic staff in Havana. According to the Associated Press, American diplomats in Cuba have developed “severe hearing loss attributed to a covert sonic device.” Some have even been sent back to the United States. While it remains publicly unknown who planned and executed the possible attack, the fact is that Obama and his administration withheld crucial information from the public. And it appears they did nothing in response to the apparent targeting of on our own people. They certainly didn’t sound the alarm and demand answers from their Cuban friends. Why would that be? The only answer is that they wanted Obama’s opening to Cuba to appear wise and unblemished, and they wanted to sugarcoat or ignore Cuba’s sinister behavior.

Meanwhile in North Korea, the Obama administration failed to prevent further progress from being made on the Kim regime’s nuclear weapons program, to say the least. Citing a recent confidential assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, The Post reported last week that “North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power.” This was known as far back as 2011. Yet the Obama administration suppressed the news and kept selling its policy of “strategic patience.” Turns out “strategic patience” in Asia was a lot like “leading from behind” in the Middle East. Specifically, the United States did nothing, much of the media applauded, our problems festered and now a deadly crisis is at hand.

As troubling as these revelations are, they should not come as a surprise. They were typical. Remember, the Obama White House boasted about its ability to manipulate the media during its capitulation to Iran. According to The Post, “One of President Obama’s top national security advisers, [Ben Rhodes,] led journalists to believe a misleading timeline of U.S. negotiations with Iran over a nuclear agreement and relied on inexperienced reporters to create an ‘echo chamber’ that helped sway public opinion to seal the deal.” The administration preyed on naive reporters who were either sympathetic to Obama or too inexperienced to see right through the scam. And as a result, anyone in Congress — or in the public for that matter — who disagreed with the Iran nuclear agreement was made out to be a heretic and warmonger. Well, the deceptive ploy to hide the truth and sell the Iran deal wasn’t just a one-off rogue operation from Team Obama. It was standard operating procedure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...and-the-united-states/?utm_term=.60d9a8a8b379

 

[Hypoxia]

Tromp has had half a year to establish his foreign policy.

It kinda shifts over time. What'll it be next week? Who knows?

Tromp has left hundreds of foreign-policy-wonk chairs go vacant since he won.

Without wonks to sort things out, it all goes to shit quickly.

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else."

Team Tromp seem to have no idea where they're going.

Is that good for the rest of us?