U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang at the International Convention Center in Hanoi

Obama's naive idealism has caused havoc as America makes the same mistakes over and over again

How do you distinguish a foreign policy "idealist" from a "realist," an optimist from a pessimist? Ask one question: Do you believe in the arrow of history? Or to put it another way, do you think history is cyclical or directional? Are we condemned to do the same damn thing over and over, generation after generation -- or is there hope for some enduring progress in the world order?

For realists, generally conservative, history is an endless cycle of clashing power politics. The same patterns repeat. Only the names and places change. The best we can do in our own time is to defend ourselves, managing instability and avoiding catastrophe. But expect nothing permanent, no essential alteration in the course of human affairs.

The idealists believe otherwise. They believe that the international system can eventually evolve out of its Hobbesian state of nature into something more humane and hopeful. What is usually overlooked is that this hopefulness for achieving a higher plane of global comity comes in two flavors -- one liberal, one conservative.

The liberal variety (as practiced, for example, by the Bill Clinton administration) believes that the creation of a dense web of treaties, agreements, transnational institutions and international organizations (like the U.N., NGOs, the World Trade Organization) can give substance to a cohesive community of nations that would, in time, ensure order and stability.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/27/obamas-naive-idealism-has-caused-havoc-as-america-makes-the-same/

More likely a very calculated manner to fundamentally change the United States!
He's said it often enough,that his aim to to fundamentally change the United States of America!
Nothing naive,and nothing idealistic about it!

He hates the USofA,and the Constitution,and so does Moochelle!
How much more evidence do you Guys need?

Barrack Hussain Obama

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/what-obama-and-i-learned-at-columbia-how-to-destroy-america-from-within/

http://darwinsracists.com/book/?p=68/

http://canadafreepress.com/article/obama-taught-destroy-middle-class/
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Michelle Obama

http://www.educationalwriting.net/resource_center/Thesis/Topics/College-thesis.htm/

http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=1182/

Krauthammer is unfortunately another of the self-deluded commentators who ignore the facts, and instead indulge in making the very same mistakes that he pretends here that Obama makes, only with an anti-Obama lilt.

Krauthammer is an adherent to the entirely mythical Republican propaganda that there was and still is an Obama international "apology tour."

It is a complete lie.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/17/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obama-began/

Since this latest critique of Obama's efforts to improve Japanese and Vietnamese relations (as a hedge against the increasing threat of Chinese dominance in the Pacific), is based entirely on that self-delusion, it lacks viable substance.

Contrary to what he goes to great pains to twist facts to fit, there IS no such thing as an overall self-delusion approach to international relations, which can avoid all mistakes, and make the world a safer place.

Krauthammer lauds the idea that "spreading democracy" is the right way to go, despite repeated instances, especially in the Middle East, resulted in a turn to extremism and antagonism towards the United States.

I hope China's ally, Vietnam,
was at least courteous enough to greet Obonzo,
with a hearty "Do ma nyu!".

Obama is the sorriest Specimen of POTUS I've seen in a long time,and I've seen a few!

yep,Krauthammer is the Bane of the Left!