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Old 05-11-2009, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Texas...and proud of it.
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Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger compared President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office to those of President John F. Kennedy—and not in terms of their youth, good looks or oratory.
Eagleburger told the Council on Foreign Relations that just as JFK’s 1961 meeting with Nikita Khrushchev led the Russian leader to think the young American president was naive and weak on foreign policy, Obama’s diplomatic overtures have invited foreign leaders to view the new president as timid and untested.



Eagleburger: Obama Looks Weak to U.S. Enemies and Allies - Washington Wire - WSJ
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Old 05-11-2009, 09:16 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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I disagree. I think Obama=Bush=WAR. Neo-cons and establishment liberals will both be at least half pleased with the people's selection. The former because of the WAR policy, and the latter because of the social welfare policy.
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Old 05-11-2009, 10:25 PM
 
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Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger compared President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office to those of President John F. Kennedy—and not in terms of their youth, good looks or oratory.
Eagleburger's critic is about as unsubstantiated as anything else coming out of the Republican Party past or present.

"Obama’s diplomatic overtures have invited foreign leaders to view the new president as timid and untested."

What foreign leaders? What have they said? What have they done? In short who, what, when and where?

As for his specific observations... how successful was Bush in either keeping the "Coalition of the Willing" on the ground in Iraq, or adding to foreign troop levels in Afghanistan? Neither of those two issues were matters of naiveté. As for nuclear proliferation... the record of the world much less the U.S. isn't exactly steller and that state of affairs has nothing to do with Obama.
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Old 05-11-2009, 10:54 PM
 
Location: Mississauga
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I don't get the impression that Obama is weak and I don't think he should be underestimated. As for Eagleburger's comments, the biggest 'rogue' state threat in terms of nuclear proliferation is Iran. Did Eagleburger talk about the W being weak. After all he had years to deal with Iran's nuclear proliferation ambition - it was well known to him, yet did squat.
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