… The GOP’s difficulty with exploiting public discontent with Obama’s handling of foreign policy is that the president’s unwillingness to be more assertive in Syria or Ukraine reflects the public’s mood—including Republicans. In Obama’s words, “Frankly, most of the foreign policy commentators that have questioned our policies would go headlong into a bunch of military adventures that the American people had no interest in participating in and would not advance our core security interests.”
The president’s got a point: Although the broad GOP critique of Obama’s foreign policy weakness may have rhetorical appeal, specific Republican criticisms are on shaky ground. Just 31 percent of the public, for example, believes that events in Russia and Ukraine are very important to the interests of the United States. CONT.
Andrew Kohut, Politico Magazine