Foreign Policy

"The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it, militarily….They also lead economically, but they're getting weak….But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope."

-Lech Walesa

President Obama has consistently labeled Afghanistan the war America cannot afford to lose. Last March, he announced a “stronger, smarter and comprehensive strategy,” undertaken after “a careful policy review,” and subsequently hand-picked one of America’s most respected military officers, General Stanley McChrystal, to lead the effort.

The global media was all a flutter just last week with the announcement that Iran had agreed in principal with a deal to ship their uranium to Russia for enrichment, and then have it returned for peaceful purposes – energy production. Some of us were skeptical, but the liberal mass media was proclaiming the deal as a bold “breakthrough” in the new world order of hope ushered in by Nobel Peace Prize winning Barack Obama.