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Friday, March 14, 2014

True Insight in a few Sentences

The great Peggy Noonan has the ability to set forth complex thoughts in ways that make them both concise and easy to understand.  She used that skill as a speech writer for the president decades ago.  Now, in her column, she is speaking under her own name to America, but her insight remains amazing.  Here, in just a few sentences, is her staggeringly accurate critique of America's foreign policy in the age of Obama:

The most obvious Ukraine point has to do with American foreign policy in the sixth year of the Obama era.
Not being George W. Bush is not a foreign policy. Not invading countries is not a foreign policy. Wishing to demonstrate your sophistication by announcing you are unencumbered by the false historical narratives of the past is not a foreign policy. Assuming the world will be nice if we're not militarist is not a foreign policy.
What is our foreign policy? Disliking global warming?



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