New Obama World Order, Worse For U.S.

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we are still frozen in a Wild West moment, when everyone in the saloon has drawn his six-shooter, paused, and is wondering what happened to the sheriff — and wondering, too, who will be the first to dare start shooting.
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We might scoff at Neanderthal notions like a loss of deterrence inviting aggression, but Neanderthals do not.
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To Obama, old allies like Britain and Israel either did not need unflinching U.S. support or did not necessarily warrant it.
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CENTCOM is based in Qatar, but it would be hard to find a more anti-American host. Add up Al Jazeera, support for Hamas, sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood, and the stealthy funding of all sorts of Middle Eastern insurgents and terrorists, and you do not find a reliable friend of the United States.
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Can the old, pre-Obama postwar order be rebuilt? Of course, but it will require budgetary discipline, a visionary president, experienced national-security advisers, skillful diplomats, and a public that is informed and cares. In other words — not for another two years and five months.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386779/new-world-disorder-victor-davis-hanson

September 2, 2014 4:00 AM
The New World Disorder
To Obama, the retrenchment of the West was not only inevitable but to be welcomed.
By Victor Davis Hanson