Michael Bsrone‘s latest column assesses the president’s willingness to make tough decisions.
I draw the conclusion that Netanyahu will very soon order an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities. Meanwhile, Obama is kicking the can down the road, announcing Tuesday that the United States will participate in further negotiations with Iran.
It cannot be known with certainty that these negotiations will fail, as earlier negotiations have. Obama is correct in saying that we are in the process of imposing much tougher sanctions that are doing real damage to Iran’s economy.
But he doesn’t mention that those sanctions were produced by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats in Congress over the opposition of the administration — a coalition that was alarmed by Obama’s policy of, well, kicking the can down the road. …
… When Obama was running for president, many right-thinking and even some right-leaning folks hailed him as a forger of bipartisan consensus temperamentally inclined to respect and even adopt some of the ideas of the opposition party.
In office, he’s been something like the opposite of that.
