Nerd Analysis : A Professor Abroad Ponders Obama's Foreign Policy

Here is an interesting piece that I would have missed if not for the excellent Pseudo-Polymath.  Here's a blurb:

... the United States avoided the worst possible self-inflicted wound of default, but the extraordinarily divisive debate and the manifest failure of President Obama to lead in a responsible way likely did long-lasting damage to his and the country's global stature.

And people are noticing.  Well, that's just great. Ugh.  Oh, here's more from Professor Feaver who, by the way, has the best name I've heard in a long time.  It sounds as though it should belong to a comic book superhero or supervillain!  You do need this blurb, though, from Feaver's vantage point in Singapore:

... the unilateralism that seemed to worry people the most was the United States unilaterally ceding global responsibilities and initiative -- in this part of the world, especially to China. No one I talked to wants the United States to start a Cold War with China, but nor does anyone want the United States simply to abandon the region to Chinese influence.

You don't say!  (Dear World, Miss me yet?  Love and kisses, Big Evil Imperialist America That You Love to Bash)