ARROGANCE – AT 8:41 A.M. ET:  In an interview with the Administration-friendly Today Show, President Obama showed the remarkable arrogance that has become almost a trademark.  He will not admit that anything is wrong.  From The Hill:

President Obama defended his campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in an interview airing Monday, saying the U.S. was “doing exactly what we should be doing” to fight the terror network.

Obama said critics of his strategy would have the U.S. redeploy tens of thousands of U.S. troops, but that ultimately such an effort would prove ineffective without local support. Presently, the U.S. and coalition partners’ military efforts against ISIS have been largely limited to airstrikes in support of Iraqi and Kurdish security forces, as well as Syrian rebel groups.

“It is entirely possible for us to deploy 200 or 300,000 U.S. troops,” Obama said in the interview with NBC’s “Today” show. “If we don’t have inside of Iraq or inside of Syria or inside of Afghanistan both he capacity and will of people to fight for themselves, then any gains that are made eventually dissipate. So this takes longer, but it’s the right way to do things.”

He added that “those who want us to shoot first and aim later” were typically the ones to “get this country into really bad situations,” and that his administration was doing everything it could short of that.

“Anything that we could be doing, we are doing,” he said.

COMMENT:  The very idea that we have exhausted all possibilities is the height of arrogance.  So is the terminology, like "those who want us to shoot first and aim later..."  The Obamans continue to think that they're smarter than everyone else, despite an abysmal foreign-policy record and the fact that, under Obama, the Mideast has burst into flames.

One reason for Obama's narrowness is that he comes from a political class that will not use terms like "victory" or "win."  These are "imperialist" terms. 

But the bottom line is that, internationally, no one takes Obama very seriously any longer.  No one really trusts him.  The world loves a winner and hates a loser.  We are today seen as a nation in retrenchment, in withdrawal.  Notice how many friends that has made.

February 2,  2015