Officer Bolton thinks Obama has already “bungled” Libya, but an even better sign for U.S. foreign policy is that Douglas Feith, with Seth Cropsey, has taken to the pages of Commentary to define and indict the entirety of the “Obama Doctrine.”
Daniel Larison – whose assessment of the Libyan operation is close to Bolton’s in critical respects, if to diametrically opposite conclusions – curtly dismisses the Feith/Cropsey piece as “nonsense,” and then moves on to Tim Pawlenty’s possibly even worse notions as detailed today in a, be still my beating heart!, major speech, but I think “nonsense” is too kind. Even a cursory glance will reveal Feith and Cropsey’s culpable inability to comprehend anything other than Bush Era neoconservative unilateralism as representing a potentially valid concept of the American national interest. The result is a vaguely respectable-looking reiteration of far right gutter-political claims against the President’s basic patriotism.
Come on now, Larison’s the far right winger, in the Buchanan/Ron Paul camp, then again you thought Reagan was a war monger, that was going to provoke a nuclear war like Sebastian Shaw, didn’t you.