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Mystery in the desert

February 19, 2009 - 2:32 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2009-02-19 18:40:57

If the Republicans were smart they’d groom John Bolton for a Presidential run….old Joe Biden bet that the anointed one would be challenged by a world crisis (the big 0 used that word 29 times in a speech yesterday)….but this ain’t the criis. When the world economy starts to recover and the Dems feel all smuggly and safe in 2010 is probably when one of our enemies will take advantage of the “we want to hear from you” posture of our new “soft” foreign policy and challenge the big 0 with an “in your face” foreign policy crisis.I suspect it will happen a lot closer to our shores than any one wants to imagine. The reaction by this administration will be tempered and we’ll hear… “we are in consultation with our foreign allies” and then…no immediate retaliation from the big 0 which will makes us look very weak. Our European allies, who rely on us for their protection, will get real scared…take it from there…for sure we need more satellite surveillance and analysis like the report yesterday from MIT as to where OBL is holed up.But unless we act on it like the Israel’s do, then we should just spend the money on bailing out sub prime slime mortgage holders.