David P. Goldman, Asia Times, September 16, 2013
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Excerpt:After 12 years of writing on foreign policy in this space, I have nothing more to say. The Obama administration has handed the strategic initiative to countries whose policy-making proceeds behind a wall of opacity. Robert Frost's words come to mind:
As for the evil tidingsOr - as in Robin Williams' old nightclub impression of then president Jimmy Carter addressing the nation on the eve of World War III: "That's all, good night, you're on your own."
Belshazzar's overthrow
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What he soon enough will know?
David P. Goldman is Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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