Waffle House Summer

The Guardian: 

Barack Obama: the voice of expediency

 

[...] None of this is easy – as the White House and Mr Obama constantly remind us whenever they are questioned about their interminable non-decision decisions – but let’s be clear that Mr Obama’s brand of ultra-pragmatism in foreign affairs comes with a fundamental long-term cost.

For much of today, the State Department briefing sounded like those I used to attend at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the spokesperson stuck defiantly to the script, affecting not to see, or simply to ignore, what everyone else in the room could see: namely the truth.
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