Obama's Map of the World Has Russia, and Not Much Else

In a lengthy post discussing the situation in Egypt, Ed Morrissey points out something about Obama's world view that may explain why he phoned in the Iran democracy uprising and had a different plan every hour for Egypt:

His map of the world, it seems, begins and ends in Russia. Obama’s only real enthusiasm in foreign policy has come from nuclear talks with Russia, starting with the embarrassing “reset button” in 2009 and concluding with START. It’s not to say that nuclear disarmament and verification aren’t important issues, but they are hardly the threat to American national security that they were when Obama went to college. Nothing else outside of this forum seems to interest Obama at all.

It’s not that Obama has no “map” of the Middle East. It’s that foreign policy isn’t on his map, which is why the phrase “smart power” has morphed into irony.

Obama has never progressed beyond the world view he had going into college. He's still trying to promote a nuclear freeze which was all the rage back then. He still sees Russia as the threat it once was before the Iron Curtain came down and the Soviet Union dissolved.  Therefore, the most pressing world issue is a nuclear arms agreement.

No wonder he can't figure out what to do about the world situation - in his mind the world hasn't changed in 30 years.