TUNKU VARADARAJAN: How Obama Is Weakening America. Jimmy Carter is invoked. “So one wonders—as Putin embraces Chavez and Karzai plays host to Ahmadinejad; as Russia asserts the right to repudiate any nuclear-arms reduction treaty and China gives us the bird on the yuan; as the alliance with India languishes and the one with Britain experiences unprecedented atrophy; as Israel expresses acrid disagreement with us and Japan seeks to rip pages out of its postwar rulebook—what all the pragmatism has really, truly accomplished… …other than give our delighted adversaries a free pass and our friends a very rude wakeup call.”