The world continues to confound our clueless president

From Paul Mirengoff at Powerline Blog:

Many of President Obama’s foreign policy failures are the product of his badly misguided ideology. But some flow simply from his inability to understand how the world works. (The two defects are, of course, related).

Take the current crisis in Iraq. The country is disintegrating, Iraqi soldiers are deserting, some of those who aren’t have been executed barbarically, and Baghdad is under serious threat.

What does Obama do? He urges Prime Minister Maliki to make his government more inclusive of his political opponents and to loosen his grip on power.

To appreciate the foolishness of this response, consider how Obama behaves in response to the smallest political crisis here at home. His response is always first to rally the base.

How, then, can Obama suppose that Maliki, in response to an existential crisis, will alienate his base by ceding power to opponents?

Yet another case when the Dear Leader tells another, "do what I say, not what I do."