Midknight Review -- new and revised: Obama's "pivot" to Asia, deserting the Middle East and putting the existential future of Taiwan in grave danger. Leading from behind simply means, that many of our ally's will be left behind (and I do mean "Left").

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In an excellent article published in the NY Times, the reader is exposed to the Chinese opposition in the face of a weak, Obama/Asian doctrine. We are reminded of the downward spiral that is the U.S./China circumstance as we read the highlighted excepts, below.

Ask yourselves this: in light of the fact that the US can no longer fight a two-front war, does anyone believe that Obama would fight to preserve the liberty of Taiwan? You can find the tiny island/state on the map. Make note of the fact that China has redrawn its "maritime claims" to include Taiwan. Obama has deserted Israel, walked away from Syria, ignored cries for help during the Green Revolution in Iran, tried to establish a Muslim Theocracy in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood, intended to run guns from Libya into Syria before the Benghazi massacre blew the lid off that bit of genius.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will visit Beijing on Wednesday and Thursday for the sixth annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue. And while Washington has been focused more on Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and Russia, some say the U.S.-China relationship is facing its stiffest test since President Richard M. Nixon traveled to Mao Zedong’s China in 1972. “U.S.-China relations are worse than they have been since the normalization of relations, and East Asia today is less stable than at any time since the end of the Cold War,” said Robert Ross, a political science professor

at Boston College and associate of Harvard’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Either way, foreign policy experts agree that the relationship deserves much more attention than it is getting. Kerry is widely seen as more interested in the Middle East, while national security adviser Susan E. Rice has yet to visit Beijing, leaving China policy without a sufficiently senior voice in Washington. Meanwhile, Obama’s refusal to visit China for a return version of last year’s Sunnylands summit in California with Xi has also “personally irritated” his Chinese counterpart, Johnson said — although he is scheduled to visit Beijing for an Asia-Pacific summit in November.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Obama's "pivot" to Asia, deserting the Middle East and putting the existential future of Taiwan in grave danger. Leading from behind simply means, that many of our ally's will be left behind (and I do mean "Left").

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