Though the deepening economic crisis is certainly enough to fulfill most citizens’ worry quota for the year (if not longer), President Obama’s impotent flailing about on the economy shouldn’t be Americans’ only reason to be concerned about their president, a relatively young man who has shown no ability to succeed at any non-campaigning endeavor in his brief but highly publicized career. As noted here on RS before, the UK Telegraph recently quoted a source “close to members of Mr. Obama’s inner circle” as “express[ing] concern that [the President] ha[s] failed so far to ‘even fake an interest in foreign policy.’”
“Obama is overwhelmed,” the Telegraph quotes the source as saying. “There is a zero sum tension between his ability to attend to the economic issues and his ability to be a proactive sculptor of the national security agenda.”
With global threats like a near-nuclear Iran, an unstable and passive-aggressive North Korea, a once again expanding Russia, a quickly-fading counterterror ally in Pakistan, and unrelenting Islamist terrorism — just to name a few — present and growing, this is a very, very bad time to have a young, untested man who is reportedly “facing exhaustion over America’s economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs” sitting in the White House making decisions that literally affect the lives of people all around the globe.
It’s even worse time to have someone at the controls who is giving strong signals, through his response to that crisis, that his reaction to domestic crises will be to attempt to shoehorn reality into his dogmatic-leftist worldview, and to international crises will be to immediately assume a position of weakness and begin negotiating for “peace” from there (ask Pakistan how well that’s working out for them so far).
