++Tonight brought us another in a long series of Washington Post editorials against the foreign policy of Barack Obama. This one says that President Obama's West Point speech ran against several decades of American policy and ties the hands of the United States. They say that words about America's weakness are heard in Singapore and France. They lament President Obama failing to train and arm the Syrian opposition because he has promised many times.
++Maybe the Post is sore because President Obama made it clear you can't invade other countries alone when you have no reason. Borowitz in the New Yorker had a good take on this earlier this afternoon.
++Or is the Post sore that President Obama only invoked FDR,JFK and Eisenhower. All the wars the Post supported came afterwards.
++E.J. Dionne made the case that Obama actually saved internationalism today by his restraint and made the country stronger.
++Elliot Abrams used the Post's imperial zeal to criticize the President's speech and cry foul that he didn't credit George W. with his excellent sanctions regime against Iran and his AIDS program in Africa.
++The Post and Mr.Abrams try to accuse President Obama of arguing against straw men. Hell, no one wanted to put boots on the ground in Syria or Libya, except The Post. No, we didn't mean you really had to invade people. Nah,we warned against that in the Ukraine--no they didn't.
++Maybe the Post is looking out for their owner, Mr. Bezos and his multi-million dollar contract with the intelligence community.
++The Post is wall-to-wall warmongering. How do you think D.C. has a 4.5% unemployment rate? You have to keep the Deep State alive and well-lubricated.
++I am sure we will have more attacks on President Obama in the days ahead. Maybe that's good because his National Defense University speech died after a day. Maybe that's because he argued for the repeal of the Authorization to Use Military Force Act passed after 9/11.
++I'm surprised that the Post has not condemned Putin attending the D-Day celebrations. There is still time.
++The problems with Obama's speech have nothing to do with the restraint on using force. It has to do with his assumption that a future foreign policy will need the economic tools of foreign assistance.
++Not to be too snarky,there is a new Museum at the lower end of Manhattan dedicated to the failures of the last administration's strategic thinking, which the Post seems to share.
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