How the Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security (Encounter Broadsides)

by Victor Davis Hanson

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In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama's vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent of global change -- one that questions our existing system of defense, values, alliances, interests, and commerce. In tactical terms, Obama believes that his 'hope-and-change' rhetoric and non-traditional background give him a moral authority abroad that will trump any inconsistency in U.S. foreign policy. But, as Hanson explains, at some future date, regional hegemons...Read more
  • ISBN10 1594034680
  • ISBN13 9781594034688
  • Publish Date 1 January 2010 (first published 17 December 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Encounter Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 48
  • Language English