New Thinking on Foreign Policy

Ralph Peters has an awesome, awesome column in the NY Post today. It is adorned with the most unflattering of Madeline Albright ever -- be careful before you click. Peters debunks six "whoppers" about the war on terror "We're not safer. Al-Qaeda is stronger. Ya dda yad da." But I have to give quote of the day honors for #6: "As president, Barack Obama would bring positive change to our foreign policy - and John McCain's too old to get it. "

Hmm: Take a gander at Obama's senior foreign-policy advisers: Madeleine Albright (71), Warren Christopher (82), Anthony Lake (69), Lee Hamilton (77), Richard Clarke (57) . . .

If you added up their ages and fed the number into a time-machine, you'd land in Europe in the middle of the Black Death.

More important: These are the people whose watch saw the first attack on the World Trade Center, Mogadishu, Rwanda, the Srebrenica massacre, a pass for the Russians on Chechnya, the Khobar Towers bombing, the attacks on our embassies in Africa, the near-sinking of the USS Cole [...]

You couldn't assemble a team in Washington with more strategic failures to its credit.

Hat-tip: Instapundit

2008 Posted by jk at June 29, 2008 11:46 AM