There are two world crises happening concurrently. One of them involves a Russian invasion of a nearby country; in the other, our traditional allies in the Middle East have responded with force to a new and dangerous military and ideological threat. The US reaction to the first crisis is to do, essentially, nothing; our outright opposition to the actions of our allies, including Israel, in the second crisis has damaged important and longstanding strategic relationships.
Is this Barack Obama on Ukraine and Syria in 2014? Or is it that well-known Republican wimp, Dwight Eisenhower, on Hungary and Suez in 1956?
More thoughts on Eisenhower to follow.