Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
As politicians try to lay blame for losing Iraq on Bush\u2019s flawed Mid-East vision instead of Obama\u2019s flawed Mid-East vision,\u00a0Fernandez points out:<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cAs recent events in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Iraq show, the problem with Obama\u2019s conception is it doesn\u2019t work. \u00a0It is so bad that it makes GWB look good by comparison.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
One of the standard jokes four years ago was that “everything about Obama’s foreign policy that’s succeeding [continuing Bush’s hard line in Iraq and Afghanistan] is a continuation of the Bush policy”.<\/p>\n
Simplistic? \u00a0Maybe.<\/p>\n
Simplistic enough that Biden believed it:<\/p>\n