Within a week, Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, also handed in her resignation. According to the Pentagon officials who spoke with Reuters anonymously, Obama invited an “intense, prolonged” and “unnecessary” internal debate over how to respond to this provocation, and only reluctantly agreed in October to dispatch one destroyer to sail within 12 nautical miles of one of Beijing’s new island bases.“The Pentagon and U.S. military officials had been ready for months to carry out patrols, but ran into ‘repeated stalling’ from the White House and State Department, said one U.S. defense official, who requested anonymity,” Reuters reported.As the fruits of Barack Obama’s feckless approach to foreign affairs ripen, and the conflicts that he sought to resolve only deteriorate, the president’s advisors are increasingly training their fire on him. … Any other American president who, while prosecuting an unpopular war, saw a series of critical national security advisors resign would probably generate some rather unfavorable coverage.
The portion of the bill that authorizes the Council is presente As both these advisors head for the exits, they and others are seeking exculpation for the increasing tensions and accelerating failures in their respective theaters of operations. In its remaining days in power, the Obama administration suddenly punished Vladimir Putin’s Russia for allegedly interfering in the U.S. presidential election. by Noah Rothman. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Barack Obama remains a fortunate president, insofar as the press is still invested in his success. “I do think that we need to, unfortunately, do a better job of really understanding what Russia and the Kremlin’s interests are,” she said. She served as the senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs from 2009 to 2017. When training and material finally began pouring into the country, it was too late to reverse the facts on the ground.Farkas’ assessment of what the future holds for Europe was a bleak one.
Rice criticized Obama's Republican opponent in the campaign, John McCain, calling his policies "reckless" and dismissing the Arizona senator's trip to Iraq as "strolling around the market in a flak jacket." Among those included chairing the In 1991, as deputy chief of staff to Mayor Richard Daley, Jarrett interviewed Michelle Robinson for an opening in the mayor's office, after which she immediately offered Robinson the job.Since leaving the White House, Jarrett has volunteered as a senior advisor to the To one reporter's emailed question about her divorce, she replied, "Married in 1983, separated in 1987, and divorced in 1988. If the Obama era is going to be remembered as the period when the seeds of chaos and conflict were sown, surely more creatures of Washington are going to emerge to make sure that they do not take the blame for sowing them. The Council of Economic Advisers was established by Congress in the Employment Act of 1946. On November 5, 2008, Rice was named to the advisory board of the Obama–Biden Transition Project. Her parents are of African-American and European descent. A president who has so perfected the art of throwing others under the bus is about to get the same treatment.Explore the scintillating September 2020 issue of Commentary. It claimed that Russian or Russian-hired hackers tapped into the records of the Democratic National Committee as well as the correspondence of John Podesta, a Clinton advisor. “They have, thus far, prioritized their security interests over their economic interests.”The picture being painted by Obama’s soon-to-be-former advisors is one of a president paralyzed with indecision. On the television series Jarrett got her start in Chicago politics in 1987 working for Jarrett continued to work in the mayor's office in the 1990s. Given the ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East into which the West is increasingly committing resources, these resignations are alarming.In general, the flight of Obama’s war advisors from his administration went unnoticed by all but the keenest of observers. What’s more, they are shifting blame toward the White House.“We need more high-level attention being paid to the countries that feel directly threatened by Russia,” Farkas said that she unsuccessfully pushed the administration to approve “lethal, defensive assistance to Ukraine, primarily anti-tank weapons.” But lethal aid never came for Ukrainian resistance fighters. In the final year of this administration, that trend is only likely to intensify. As Obama prepared for his June 2009 trip to Cairo, Hussain Please enter your username or email address. President-elect Barack Obama today unveiled the economic advisers he has tapped to help the US recover from a debilitating credit crisis and foreclosure epidemic. Before that, she served as a co-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project.