We continue our review of Pres. BO's speech, i.e. 50 minutes of generalities and very few specifics!
Let me quote The Economist: Barack Obama, in his address to Congress, asks for sacrifice but skips the details!
Who said that such an articulate man needs details anyway?
Pres BO had one huge omission last night: foreign policy! Iran and Russia!
In fact, he flew over foreign policy.
Didn't Pres Carter want to be a domestic president, too? Didn't he get consumed with foreign affairs?
Foreign policy is like your kid in college. You never know when they will show up asking for money and a bag of laundry.
Overall, has Pres BO forgotten about Al Qaeda? Do you think that they forgot about us?
"Nor did he mention - not even once - the source of America's still-potent enemy: radicalized militant Islamism.
But for a single reference to "al Qaeda," you might have thought America was threatened by bloodthirsty Quakers."
Afghanistan will be a major headache, too.
During the Bush years, the Democrats declared war on Afghanistan to show the US public that they were serious about terrorism, too.
"We took our eye off the ball" was the clincher line!
As President, BO is painfully learning that sending troops into Afghanistan is going to be a lot more complicated than he thought.
We need to hear more about Afghanistan. Why isn't Pres BO publicly calling on our allies to send troops, too?
Mexico is also a time bomb.
As of today, the US-Mexico border is one gigantic battle zone. Our border cities are impacted by the gunfights a few miles away.
Are we prepared for a wave of refugees from Mexico? What are we going to do about it?
Are we ready for a collapse of the Mexican government?
Last night, Pres BO skipped the details and gave us a nice pep talk.
We need details. At least, we need to know that Pres BO is on top of these potential problems in Mexico and Afghanistan.
