tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post4703658971225395176..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: UCLA’s Gelvin Buries Obama’s Middle East Policy FailuresMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-13209138271542085922017-04-17T06:38:41.807-07:002017-04-17T06:38:41.807-07:00Bush-2's MBA based policies could be described...Bush-2's MBA based policies could be described as classical crisis management. Don't do anything unless you're called upon to manage a narrow crisis in a short amount of time with little regard to the long run outcome. Obama's view of the world is quite a bit different. Ivory-Towerism incarnate. They are like the people of Lapuda in Gulliver's Travels who are so smart they have to be hit on the head to be reminded it's their turn to speak. Obama sees the world as a thought-experiment with little concern not only for the longer run consequences but with almost no regard at all for the human lives involved. <br /><br />Let's not forget that the legalese parsing of 'boots on the ground, in the Obamaverse resulted in nearly a thousand civilian deaths from drone strikes on whomever Obama felt like killing on a particular day. Now of course presidents have done this for well nigh on a hundred and fifty years but they were circumspect about it. They didn't trot out the Obama equivalent of right wing death squads as an actual legitimate tool of policy. <br /><br />So it's important to understand his 'legacy' in that context. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.com