The White House wants you to know there’s much more to Obama’s foreign policy than meets the eye. Sure, it might seem that the president has lost the thread, and that America’s interests are suffering in the Persian Gulf, the eastern Mediterranean, Europe, and Africa, just to name a few. But there’s a secret world—details of which are regularly leaked to the media—where the reality is supposedly different. Here the Obama administration is—according to the Obama administration—conducting a robust foreign policy, racking up victory after victory and confounding our foes on a regular basis. You just don’t know about it because Obama wants it that way, nice and quiet. Subtlety, after all, is the signature of smart power.
You might think, for example, that Obama has rolled over on Iran, and that he will allow the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guards Corps to get the bomb. But in the secret world, the president has engineered a clandestine cyber campaign against Iran’s nuclear facilities that will continue to frustrate the regime’s plans. In the secret world, the administration has intelligence operatives on the ground in Syria coordinating with rebel forces and regional allies to bring down Bashar al-Assad. Russian president Vladimir Putin may seem to display open contempt for Obama—but in the secret world, the Russian reset will soon pay rich dividends.
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