Thursday, November 19, 2009

Getting Chummy With Our Enemies

A policy of trying to befriend enemies and stiff-arm friends isn't increasing our security:

Add it all up and there is a growing sense that America is in fact hemorrhaging - as both friends and enemies abroad smell blood in the water. The president through conciliation and concession - not to mention constant talk - is trying to superficially restore the influence we once earned by virtue of our economic power and self-confidence in our exceptional past and singular values.

But being both loud and vulnerable is not a winning combination, since political influence and military power are ultimately predicated on economic strength.


Who knew that a policy of speaking eloquently (and often) but forgetting just where you set down that stick wouldn't impress foreign actors?