The Washington Free Beacon's Lachlan Markay called President Obama's poorly received West Point foreign policy address an example of him "trying to please both sides" Wednesday on Fox Business, adding it was only trying to "not annoy people."
"The problem with the speech and with the troop drawdown that was announced this week was that the president is trying to please both sides and what ends up coming out is a completely garbled, nonsensical foreign policy," Markay said. "You don't have enough troops on the ground in Afghanistan for the next two years to make any notable difference, but you're not bringing them all home in a way that would satisfy people who simply want to bring the troops home. You're not really accomplishing any meaningful foreign policy objective. It all seems geared towards a political objective, which while isn't stridently ideological, is determined to just not annoy people."
Obama's meandering speech at the U.S. Military Academy was panned by both sides of the aisle.