Astonishment and Contempt

Writing for National Review Online, Conrad Black summarizes U.S. foreign policy since Reagan, with particular emphasis on the last four presidential terms, and finds it disastrous.

As President Obama and his entourage and imperishable following persevere in their conviction that this president’s benign championship of non-intervention, arms control, and giving rogue states the benefit of the doubt is winning hearts and minds to a new conception of a kindly, detached America, it is clearer every week that this administration’s foreign policy is contemplated with astonishment and contempt by practically everyone else.

After four terms of almost unrelieved bipartisan official incompetence, America has dug itself into a deep hole, a process in which both the Bushes and the Clintons have done their part.

Umm ... yeah, that's a fair assessment.