Is President Obama's Middle East Policy Based On 'Fantasy'?

Eli Lake, Bloomberg: Obama's Middle East Fantasy



Way back in the George W. Bush administration, his progressive critics used to call themselves members of the "reality based community." The phrase was first popularized by Ron Suskind in a lengthy criticism of Bush's so-called war on terror. Bush and his team were blinded by the moral certainties of ideology, whereas their critics understood the world as it is.



Reading through President Barack Obama's new 2015 National Security Strategy, I think it's time to resurrect the phrase, because this document bears very little relation to reality, at least in the Middle East.



WNU Editor: I believe that President Obama's policy towards the Middle East has always been the same ... stay away from their wars. Whether that is a strategy based on fantasy is open to debate .... but as Eli Lake in the above commentary very clearly comments on .... he believes that such a debate should start now.