Jeffrey Goldberg conducted a wide-ranging, in-depth interview with PresidentObama last Thursday. Goldberg summarized the exchange and then printed the verbatim text of the interview.
When I read the text of the interview I said to myself, "Obama is delusional." Then I read Elliott Abrams' report on the interview in the Weekly Standard which he sub-titled "Obama's scary interview. " Elliott briefly dissected the interview and declared it shows a "chief executive who has learned next to nothing about the world in his five years in office." That really is scary. Check it out. Note well what seems to me Obama's thinly-concealed contempt for Israel. One day I think historians will use this interview to document Obama's foreign policy delusions.
Elliott Abrams offers sensble reflections on "How We Can Make Putin Pay, and Why We Must."
John Fund weighs in with additional thoughts as does Victor Davis Hanson and Jim Talent. Update: Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal writes "Anatomy of a Feckless Presidency."
Update: News report says Netanyahu pushed back against Obama's diplomacy
Update #2 - Charles Krauthammer's T ake: Obama is Living in a Fantasy World
President Obama simply doesn’t understand international relations, and that’s why Russian president Vladamir Putin had the gumption to invade Ukraine, Charles Krauthammer explained on Special Report tonight. “To invade Crimea is a huge step and he would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that he’s living in a fantasy world,” Krauthammer said.
Obama began his presidency declaring that no nation can or should dominate another. On Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia committed a “19th century action in a 21st century world.” “They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat, and they are shocked that the Russians are actually interested in territory” Krauthammer said.