In a world where Russian tanks rumble into eastern Ukraine with impunity; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria thugs run amok in Syria and Iraq; Iran continues to build a bomb while our president secretly sends unrequited love notes to the country’s Holocaust-denying supreme leader; and China rolls us on a meaningless anti-climate change treaty while building nuclear ballistic missiles at record pace; the worst news to hit America’s standing in the world was the announcement in the Hill newspaper last week that Susan Rice is staying on as national security advisor.
Since taking the post in July 2013, Rice has presided over a record decline of American power and prestige, even by Obama-era standards. For President Obama to hand her a pink slip would send a strong message to friends and foes that America is taking its foreign policy seriously again.
