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Barack Obama’s contradictory, confusing Afghanistan policy reflects a problem afflicting nearly all recent presidents: an appalling lack of foreign policy experience. Carter, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush were all governors with no prior responsibility for international relations. Barack Obama was a freshman Senator who had never taken an active role on military or diplomatic issues. Among the last six presidents, only George H.W. Bush had been deeply involved in foreign policy (as CIA director, UN Ambassador, and Ambassador to China) and this experience showed in his deft handling of the first Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet empire. Republicans should seek a 2012 nominee with meaningful credentials in the international arena, since this background would benefit both the country and the GOP in its challenge to the hapless Obama record in foreign affairs.

The closed-door meeting is designed to help brief Obama before he meets business and environmental leaders at the White House on Wednesday, the White House said.

Obama on Friday announced a change to his schedule and decided to visit the UN-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen at their critical final stage on December 18, rather than this week, just after the event opens.

When Democrats control Congress and the Presidency in 2009, suddenly the Founders see the role of Senate as rubber stamping legislation without debate or input from the minority party. 

With the ratings we have, NPR should be paying us to even be mentioned on our air.

Despite the fact that the entire conference is founded on the belief that human economic activity, especially flying and driving, is emitting levels of greenhouse gasses that will soon kill us all, plutocrats from around the world have marshaled over 1,200 limos and 140 private planes to travel to and around Copenhagen over the next two weeks. When they are not participating in the world’s oldest profession, conferees will be negotiating over a successor treaty to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which obligated most developed nations to reduce their greenhouse emissions by 5 percent below 1990 baseline levels by 2012.

So how did those Kyoto emissions reduction pledges turnout? According to U.N. data, between 2000 and 2006, the 27 European signatories actually increased their emissions by 0.1%. Canada even saw a 21.3% emissions rise. Meanwhile, the U.S., who was not bound by the treaty since the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 not to subject our economy to costly regulations that China and India were specifically exempted from, actually reduced our emissions by 3% over the same time period.
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