Richard Cohen, a columnist for the Washington Post, suggests in his latest op-ed that the present day President Obama would have lost WWII to Germany.
Writing that Obama seems “petulant” and “out of ideas” in his response to world events, Cohen said Monday that “if the Obama of today and not Winston Churchill had led Britain in World War II, the Old Vic theater would now be doing ‘Hamlet’ in German.”
Obama has been widely criticized by Republicans and others for coming across as “tone deaf” in his reaction to the recent terrorist attack by the Islamic State terrorist group in Paris, in which 130 were killed and many more were injured.
During a press conference in Turkey days after the attack, Obama indicated he would make little if any changes to the administration’s anti-terrorism policies abroad.
“If folks want to pop off and have opinions about what they think they would do, present a specific plan,” Obama said of his critics. “If they think that somehow their advisers are better than the chairman of my Joint Chiefs of Staff and the folks who are actually on the ground, I want to meet them. And we can have that debate.”
Cohen wrote that Obama “is out of words because he is out of ideas. Consequently, he ought to listen to others. They’re not the ones who are popping off. He is.”
Cohen has previously hit Obama for having a foreign policy that “seemed to come out of nowhere.”
