I guess when Hillary Clinton gave that ‘reset’ button to Russian PM Sergie Lavrov, it was a sign of future failures. The so called ‘reset’ button in Russian didn’t translate to reset. Instead, it was ‘overloaded’ or ‘overloaded.’ Now, 5 years later, Obama is overloaded in failure as Vlad Putin invaders the Ukraine and Obama skips his national security meetings to go party instead.
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| Guess that ‘reset’ button with Russia didn’t work so well |
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Part of the Obama administration’s “Smart Power” foreign policy was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s infamous “Reset” with Russia. Five years later, it appears that the smart power and the reset were all about diminishing the influence of the United States in the rest of the world.
Hugh Hewitt interviewed a bunch of reporters, pundits and elected officials to see if any one of them could name even one major foreign policy success during Clinton’s tenure at State. They all came up blank, with the exception of pulling our troops out of Iraq. We’ve all seen how that turned out, with the al Qaeda flag flying over Falluja. Oh, and she traveled a bazillion miles.
In all fairness, she was carrying out the foreign policy of the man who appointed her, Barack Obama. (Not that they aren’t cut from the same cloth. If she disagreed with his foreign policy, she could have just declined the job offer.) As Russia sent more troops into Ukraine, he was at happy hour with the DNC. Other than retreat, he’s not the least bit serious on foreign policy. He didn’t even bother to attend when his national security team met to discuss the escalating situation in Ukraine. The Nobel Peace Prize winner delivered another lame, meaningless warning, and in his mind his work was done. Who out there truly believes the Russians aren’t feeling emboldened by this feckless foreign policy? Fifty years to win the Cold War, five years to undo it. It’s almost like it was by design.
There is only one question left to ask in my mind: Is the defeat of the United States, the emasculation of it’s international prestige, the abandonment of our allies and the gutting of our military a bug or a feature to President Barack Obama?
If five years ago someone asked me that question I would have called them crazy,
That I am asking this question and honestly don’t now the answer, saddens me beyond belief