President Obama's first year in office represents a "downward trajectory from divinity to mortality," conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer told an audience of Heritage President Club members this week.
Focusing his remarks primarily on the President's foreign policy, Krauthammer reviewed a year of failed soft-diplomacy initiatives, including the "apology tours" and concessions to unfriendly powers.
Continuing this "illusory foreign policy" poses grave consequences to our nation, Krauthammer explains:
It would constitute a gradual, American retreat. It will have inexorable consequences easily and succinctly stated. When erstwhile allies begin to see the America umbrella beginning to be withdrawn, they will begin to accommodate themselves to those countries that we were protecting them from…[This approach to foreign policy will bring about ] the weakening of alliances; the strengthening of centers of adversarial power in Moscow, Beijing, Caracas, Tehran and elsewhere will continue at pace until some cataclysm wakes us up. Such are the wages of living in a virtual world. I pray we leave it soon."
Focusing his remarks primarily on the President's foreign policy, Krauthammer reviewed a year of failed soft-diplomacy initiatives, including the "apology tours" and concessions to unfriendly powers.
Continuing this "illusory foreign policy" poses grave consequences to our nation, Krauthammer explains:
It would constitute a gradual, American retreat. It will have inexorable consequences easily and succinctly stated. When erstwhile allies begin to see the America umbrella beginning to be withdrawn, they will begin to accommodate themselves to those countries that we were protecting them from…[This approach to foreign policy will bring about ] the weakening of alliances; the strengthening of centers of adversarial power in Moscow, Beijing, Caracas, Tehran and elsewhere will continue at pace until some cataclysm wakes us up. Such are the wages of living in a virtual world. I pray we leave it soon."
