GET OUT OF OBAMA'S WAY

As the news reports of Ghadafi’s death and the news that the President was bringing our soldiers home, from Iraq, came in, I found myself amazed by yet another accomplishment in the President’s foreign policy. President Obama has a string of foreign policy successes to brandish. President Obama not only killed Osama Bin Laden, but he has also killed a series of Al-Qaeda chiefs, including Anwar Al-Awlaki. He has captured more terrorists than the Bush administration ever dreamed of catching, and he has also managed to restore the reputation of America abroad. We are a more respected nation today and simultaneously (at-least among terrorists) a more feared nation. We have captured or killed anyone with American blood on their hands.

Under President Obama we have witnessed the fall of the Egyptian dictatorship, and the rise of the Arab spring. The President arranged a brilliant piece of espionage, in which he crippled the Iranian nuclear program, at-least temporarily. The President has also demonstrated an uncommon discipline in messaging and strategy. By not intervening in the beginning of the Iranian protests (against the cacophonous demands of GOP members), he allowed the protestors to continue to be seen as an entirely indigenous movement. I have dubbed this Obama’s Feng-Shui diplomacy. He seems to understand when he should intervene; when we should be aggressive and when we should allow events to flow like water, and evolve organically. His tactic in Iran produced significant fissures between the iranian government and its young, progressive, and hip population.

When I pondered his foreign policy successes, it dawned on me that foreign policy is the singular aspect of our government in which the President gets the first and last say in national policy. Foreign policy does not require him to compromise with anyone in the opposing party and we have had the opportunity to see Obama’s acumen for strategy. In light of this reality, I wondered what our domestic policy would be like, if President Obama was unimpeded by the GOP in economic affairs. How successful would an unobstructed Obama be in reviving our nation’s economy if he were not forced to compromise with the Republicans? The President currently has a jobs initiative that the Republicans are refusing to pass. It is estimated that we could create well over a million jobs if the package is passed, and yet, the GOP stands firmly, blocking its passage. The President’s brilliance in Foreign policy, an arena he had no prior experience in, makes it clear that the only thing holding back our Presidential prodigy and perhaps the only thing holding back the economy, is the Republican Party. Perhaps, for the sake of the nation, they simply need to Get Out Of President Obama’s way!