Actually, I think 'Thick As A Brick' is more appropriate

Captain Ed thinks Michael Barone's column sounds like he's using Jethro Tull's "Living in The Past" as Obama's foreign policy theme song.

Barone:

"His choice of priorities for the future is another thing. The climax of his European trip was his speech in Prague on April 5 (don’t look for it on the White House Web site; the latest speech text there is dated Feb. 27) on “the future of nuclear weapons in the 21st century” in which he called for “a world without nuclear weapons.” A noble goal, and one shared, incidentally, by Ronald Reagan. And how did he propose to start? By negotiating a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, getting the Senate to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty, and stopping U.S. production of fissile material.

That’s all Cold War stuff. Disarmament talks with the Soviets were a central feature of American foreign policy from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, a time when a U.S.-U.S.S.R. nuclear war would have produced enormous destruction. But the prospect of a U.S.-Russian nuclear war today is pretty much nil. It’s worthwhile to continue the Nunn-Lugar program of corralling Russia’s loose nukes — one of the few issues Obama worked on as a senator — but making disarmament talks with Russia a first priority is a policy out of the distant past. …

And what was Obama’s major policy announcement before embarking on his trip to Latin America? Lifting restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba. In 1961, the year Obama was born, Cuba was a central preoccupation of American foreign policy. Today Cuba (population 11 million) is not a major problem.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration violates the North American Free Trade Association treaty by banning trucks from Mexico (population 109 million), refuses to ratify the free-trade agreement with Colombia (population 44 million), and, despite our need for alternative fuels, makes no move to rescind the 54-cent tariff on sugar ethanol from Brazil (population 191 million)."