US precarious foreign policy in 2013: weakness and timidity

[PamelaJ]

Timidity and weakness have been the hallmarks of American foreign policy in 2013. Syria, Iran, Ukraine, China, Russia illustrate America’s indecisiveness and weakness that eventually will place Americans themselves at risk of annihilation. Why isn’t President Obama standing up for the U.S. and American values? If Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were making American foreign policy now, what would they be doing?

2013

- Intelligence leakage by Snowden
- Unpredictable developments over Syria
- Sanctions against Iran were lessened
- China unilaterally announced the creation of an air-defense zone in a region of the Pacific Ocean
- Euromaidan and Crimea
- Demonization of Putin
- Outcome of imposed sanctions against Russia is unpredictable
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Henry Kissinger: "Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities".
Does it mean that Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama will opt for a policy of reconciliation?

[Philly]

Welcome newcomer. Now prepare to be banned.

[Aaron]

Or, if you want to take a perspective that isn't straight out of Honey Booboo ... you would say that foreign policy is dictated by business, not ideology or national security, in which case all modern foreign policy dealings are soft, complicated, layered, and utterly beyond the comprehension of the OP.