Any administration’s national security strategy written for public consumption inevitably involves platitudes, vacuous rhetoric and self-congratulation. But the strategy announced last week for President Obama’s final two years in office sets new records in all these categories. As a sleep aid, it cannot be underestimated. Indeed, diverting attention from America’s rapidly deteriorating global strategic posture was likely a prime objective, as were his answers at Monday’s news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.In her defense of the strategy, National Security Advisor Susan Rice criticized “alarmism” by Obama’s critics, arguing in a speech on Friday that we do not face “existential” …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research