Post Mortem on Obama's Cairo Doctrine

The Islamic world is aflame against the U.S. At last count, 33 Islamic nations had violent protests against America. Charles Krauthammer does a retrospective of President Obama's "reset" of U.S. policy known as the "Cairo Doctrine":

"In the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Obama’s foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations of the Bush years, a profound rapprochement with the Islamic world.

On June 4, 2009, in Cairo, Obama promised “a new beginning” offering Muslims “mutual respect,” unsubtly implying previous disrespect. Curious, as over the previous 20 years, America had six times committed its military forces on behalf of oppressed Muslims, three times for reasons of pure humanitarianism (Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo), where no U.S. interests were at stake.

But no matter. Obama had come to remonstrate and restrain the hyperpower that, by his telling, had lost its way after 9/11, creating Guantanamo, practicing torture, imposing its will with arrogance and presumption."

Krauthammer then gives us the result of this "enlightened" policy:

"Sovereign U.S. territory is breached and U.S. interests are burned. And what is the official response? One administration denunciation after another — of a movie trailer! A request to Google to “review” the trailer’s presence on YouTube. And sheriff’s deputies’ midnight “voluntary interview” with the suspected filmmaker. This in the land of the First Amendment.

What else can Obama do? At their convention, Democrats endlessly congratulated themselves on their one foreign-policy success: killing Osama bin Laden. A week later, the Salafist flag flies over four American embassies, even as the mob chants, “Obama, Obama, there are still a billion Osamas.”

A foreign policy in epic collapse. And, by the way, Vladimir Putin just expelled USAID from Russia. Another thank you from another recipient of another grand Obama 'reset.' "

www.nationalreview.com/articles/327951/collapse-cairo-doctrine-charles-krauthammer

The international stage is brutal and dangerous. Foreign policy as practiced by the Democrats in power is naive in its assumptions and therefore supremely flawed in its perceptions of world politics and execution of American policies. Their approach is above all dangerous, as four Americans in Libya, including our ambassador, learned.  If we do not want this same thing to happen to more of us, then the Obama Administration has to go. Fortunately we are just over a month away from the opportunity to make the change that is so patently justified.