Professor Inboden and Shadow Govt team offer “fourth quarter” foreign policy advice

Inboden states, “Hence to start the fourth quarter, I echo Kori Schake in suggesting that the Obama administration would do well to first spend a timeout to repair damaged relations with America’s allies, our teammates. On the international scoreboard the United States has fallen way behind, but (to stretch the football metaphor almost to the breaking point) we have just had the good fortune of getting back several offensive and defensive starters from injured reserve thanks to our domestic energy boom and the concomitant plunge in global hydrocarbon prices. All of a sudden, the United States has a much stronger lineup, and opponents like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela have all lost their best players with oil down at $55 a barrel. Here’s hoping the White House can use this to get back to the fundamentals of blocking and tackling, and put some points on the board.”

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