“Sometimes words are mistakes; they’re just poorly put. But sometimes they’re a manifestation of one’s deep belief in the world and that’s what you really get with President Obama.”

◼ 'Fundamentally misguided view of world' - Peter Baker/New York Times

When President Obama addresses the nation on Wednesday to explain his plan to defeat Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria, it is a fair bet he will not call them the “JV team....”

In making his speech, Mr. Obama faces the challenge of reconciling those views with the new mission he is presenting to the American public to recommit the armed forces of the United States to the region he tried to leave. Rather than a junior varsity nuisance, he will try to convince Americans that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria represents a clear threat to national security in a state that is hardly stable. And he will seek to win patience for more war from a public that wishes it really was receding.

To Mr. Obama’s critics, the disparity between the president’s previous statements and today’s reality reflects not simply poorly chosen words but a fundamentally misguided view of the world. Rather than clearly see the persistent dangers as the United States approaches the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, they said, Mr. Obama perpetually imagines a world as he wishes it were....

◼ Even New Yorker Editor Laments Obama's 'Anthology of Botched Pronouncements' on Foreign Policy - Newsbusters

One of Barack Obama's staunchest supporters -- David Remnick, a former Washington Post reporter who's been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998 -- stated in an article on Monday that the president has become “weak,” and then, when he tries to disprove that claim, he “can seem just tired.”

“After six years in office, Obama broadcasts his world-weariness with wan gestures and pauses, with loose moments in the White House press room,” Remnick noted. “As the Middle East disintegrates and a vengeful cynic in the Kremlin invades his neighbor, Obama has offered no full and clarifying foreign-policy vision.”