Former President Barack Obama‘s former adviser, David Axelrod, tried to jab at President Donald Trump‘s foreign policy yesterday but ended up throwing his old boss under the bus.
“Amazing that in a matter of days we’ve gone from ‘this is not our operation’ to ‘we own the skies over Iran,’” Axelrod posted on Tuesday. “With these proclamations, we also now ‘own’ what WAS an Israeli assault. We’re thoroughly in it now. What is the strategy here?”
It’s no surprise that Obama’s advisers believe you can see good foreign policy coming a mile away. Obama eroded U.S. deterrence by telegraphing one big move after another, from the preannounced “phased withdrawal” from Iraq to publicly drawing a “red line” on Syria‘s chemical weapons use (which of course, it
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