This is a MAJOR mistake on his part.
Excerpt:
"America has never gone away, Senator. In fact, we have engaged in serious diplomacy where diplomacy has application, including with North Korea. What we have not done is to call summit meetings between heads of state without having any foundation for progress on our national priorities as well as whatever the dictator du jour has in mind.
Obama wants to use John Kennedy and even Ronald Reagan as his examples, but neither of these Presidents rushed to meet with the nation's enemies. Reagan disliked summit meetings entirely, and only engaged in them when the Soviets needed something bad enough that they would acquiesce to American demands to get it. Kennedy seems like an even sillier example; he tried to have Fidel Castro assassinated, and never attempted to get a tete-a-tete with the island dictator."
Obama needs to get a lot smarter than this regarding foreign policy if he expects to be taken seriously in this area, especially if he expects to be able to overtake Hillary's lead for the Dem presidential nomination.
Where are the people advising him?
Asleep?
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