Sunday, March 13, 2016

"The Obama Doctrine:" F.A.I.R.

There isn't one.

Obama foreign policy is a jerry-rigged architecture constructed of discrete, ad hoc reactions to the actions of others in a world geo-culturally compartmentalized-the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Russia-, two trans-compartment agreements, TPP, UNSCR 2231, one compartmental re-orientation, one global structure on climate change built upon existing, outmoded, contradictory structures, e.g. NATO, overlaid by the president's personal characteristics, F.A.I.R.: Fatalistic (frustration as alliterative substitute), Avoidance (aggravation, arrogance), Impatient (inaction), Rational (realist,resentment).