Obama...Failure of a Utopian VisionReader comment on: Why Dot-Com Works Better Than Dot-Gov Submitted by David E. Kettlewell (United States), Oct 16, 2014 13:21 I do not question the integrity of our President, or his desire to serve. But I, and I believe many Americans as well, do feel that his vision of world politics has been a utopian (idealistic) one, and this vision has been a failure. In a effort to present a less militarized presence to the Middle East, our head of covert operations in the Middle East, Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi , was left without adequate security protection for close to half a year, (his repeated requests for increased protection ignored for months) until he was incinerated and all his expertise on Middle Eastern affairs with him, as others of conscience in the service had to disobey orders to intervene and save those remaining alive. This was a strategic error of the first magnitude; one simply cannot leave foreign agents serving America's interests in harm's way. It was time we departed from the Middle East: it was presumed Iraq could make it on their own, after all it is their country. But it didn't work out that way, and the map of the Middle East is being redrawn in blood as we speak. Whether Iraq will even survive as a nation is now uncertain. We live in a more civilized century where Russia can be trusted to do what the Western nations and NATO members feel right and just…through amicable consensus. But it didn't work out that way. Russia wants the Crimea and Ukraine back, and it's difficult to see how this assimilation of both can now be stopped. Let the enemy know where we're going to hit them; what we are and aren't going to do…before we do it? Good PR, not so good military strategy. There is a pattern to all the above: the President brought a utopian vision to the White House, and in that vision, Americans were perceived as the new colonial power, whose excesses needed to be curtailed. Less is more. This utopian vision was based on firm ideals, and I'd go further and say they were American ideals of fairness and respect for others' views and ways, and right to self-determination. All the above are clear indications to thinking persons that the utopian and idealistic approach to world affairs is now, and will continue to be, an abject failure. No, we do not live in a Utopian world, and it may make sense at this juncture of history to recognize that essential fact. Note: Comments are moderated by the editor and are subject to editing. Other reader comments on this item
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