While there have been many critiques of the recent State of the Union, and many have rightly focused on the bald faced lie of George Oilman's announced (and quickly repudiated) energy policy. However, just as important is his foreign policy fantasy. As Andrew Bacevich wrote in the Los Angeles Times in a piece titled What Isolationism?
In his speech, the president presented a fiction to avoid a debate on a tough policy question.
Bacevich, a professor, veteran (West Point grad), and recovering conservative, has a brilliant critique of the president's foreign policy, follow me down to read all about it.