{"id":5594,"date":"2010-06-07T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2010-06-07T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T13:50:39","slug":"the-obama-doctines-failure-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5594\/the-obama-doctines-failure-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Doctine&#8217;s Failure, Cont&#8217;d."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on our <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5566\/turkey-illustrates-the-obama-doctrines-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\">commentary last week<\/a> that Turkey&#8217;s increased malfeasance illustrates the Obama Doctrine&#8217;s failure, today&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> includes a commentary by Eliot A. Cohen entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748704875604575280462094012870.html#mod=todays_us_opinion\" target=\"_blank\"><em>With Friends Like the United States&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cohen points out that even in supposedly Obama-loving Europe, America&#8217;s standing has declined, not risen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked about relations with the U.S. under President Barack Obama, 17% of Britons in a recent poll thought they had improved; 25% thought they had deteriorated.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cohen also notes Obama&#8217;s poor treatment of such friends as Colombia and Israel, alongside his spinelessness toward North Korea, Iran, China and other antagonists.\u00a0 As he cogently summarizes, &#8220;The Obama Administration has managed to convince most countries around the world that we are worth little as friends and even less as enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More ominously, Cohen concludes, &#8220;the administration is making a dangerous world even more so.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on our commentary last week that Turkey&#8217;s increased malfeasance illustrates the Obama Doctrine&#8217;s failure, today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal includes a commentary by Eliot A. Cohen entitled With Friends Like the United States&#8230; Cohen points out that even in supposedly Obama-loving Europe, America&#8217;s standing has declined, not risen: When asked about relations with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[405,216,434,1360,24,1349],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-britain","tag-foreign-policy","tag-hope-and-change","tag-international-relations","tag-obama","tag-obama-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5595,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions\/5595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}