Condi weighs in on our current foreign policy
From
The Weekly Standard:
Condi Rice Blasts Obama on Weakness, Leadership
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Barack Obama of dramatically weakening the United States' position in the world, drawing a straight line between Obama�s ever-yielding foreign policy and the increasing troubles around the world.
�Right now, there�s a vacuum,� she told a crowd of more than two thousand attending the National Republican Congressional Committee�s annual dinner last night in Washington, D.C. �There�s a vacuum because we�ve decided to lower our voice. We�ve decided to step back. We�ve decided that if we step back and lower our voice, others will lead, other things will fill that vacuum.� Citing Bashar al Assad�s slaughter in Syria, Vladimir Putin�s aggression in Ukraine, al Qaeda�s triumphant return to Fallujah, Iraq, and China�s nationalist fervor, she concluded: �When America steps back and there is a vacuum, trouble will fill that vacuum.�
Rice � measured in tone, but very tough on substance � excoriated Obama administration policies without ever mentioning the president by name. She mocked the na�ve hope that �international norms� would fill the vacuum left by U.S. retreat and blasted the president for hiding behind the weariness of the public.
I would have loved to have been a fly on that wall. I wish that we had people like her and John Bolton running our State Department. The world would be a much quieter and peaceful place...
Posted by DaveH at March 27, 2014 2:32 PM