"Determined Weakness" - Brit Hume
Of all of the folks on Fox, I believe that Brit Hume has THE most gravitas and studied view on the political scene. He was a star before coming to Fox; his hold as one of the "senior statesmen" of the media has only increased.
Today, he nails what Obama is all about - "Determined Weakness"
The transcript from Newsbusters:
"America is not what's wrong with the world," Hume said. "And a strong America, assertive in foreign policy, showing its strength, is good for the world, and it has a lot better effect on allies and enemies alike than what we're seeing now, this policy of almost determined weakness on the part of President Obama. Now, look. That decision you mentioned with the missile defense in Europe is militarily defensible. But it looked to all the world, and must have looked in the Kremlin, as if this was a capitulation. And these kinds of things add up over time."
And it's going to take more than charisma and popularity to gain strides in U.S. foreign policy, Hume added.
"And the president may think that because they think he's -- his -- the people love him, and he's a big rock star and a nice guy, and he's all respectful and bows to the -- bows from the waist to all of them, and that's all going to end up producing some result," Hume said. "It hasn't produced any, and I predict it will not produce any."
And it fits - I have yet to see a single policy or action, domestic or foreign, that has yet to actually show strength: massive borrowing will cause our financial demise, dithering on Afghanistan causes our military to lose heart, the rising unemployment due to his Stimulus is giving rise to a redeux of the "Carter Malaise", revealing our intelligence secrets causes our most at risk agents to go "I'm not sticking my neck out". Couple that with "Dissing" our long term allies and we'll soon see that we will be on our own (the exact policy that The Won accused Bush of doing) as no one will work with us.
Determined Weakness - what better way to make the US no better than any other nation in the world?
