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Obama's Foreign Policy

Dec 28, 2009: For Obama, Afghanistan ‘Adds Up to a Pretty Ominous Picture in 2010’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Obama's Foreign Policy , Opinion & Analysis
While Denis Staunton, foreign editor of The Irish Times, thinks “much disillusionment” with U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy “is born of unrealistic expectations,” Irish Times Foreign Affairs Correspondent Mary Fitzgerald thinks the U.S. military involvement in in Afghanistan and...

Dec 27, 2009: Obama's Foreign Policy Decisions Loom Large Outside U.S.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Obama's Foreign Policy , Opinion & Analysis
“To those examining [U.S. President Barack] Obama's performance from outside the United States, it is understandably the foreign policy-related decisions which loom largest in his first-year record,” according to an editorial in the December 26, 2009, Sydney Morning Herald of...

Dec 2, 2009: Obama’s Fears About the Cost of the Afghan War
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Obama's Foreign Policy
The Los Angeles Times’ Doyle McManus, writing in a December 2, 2009, analysis of President Barack Obama’s December 1, 2009, address to the world about the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, makes this revelation: Over lunch in the White House library...

Nov 11, 2009: Is Rahm Emanuel ‘Trying to Isolate Israel From America’?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Obama's Foreign Policy , U.S. Middle East Policy
Steve Clemon’s informative and influential blog The Washington Note has a November 6, 2009, post by Nahum Barnea, a correspondent for Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth, that I highly recommend. It’s headlined “Does Netanyahu Believe Rahm Emanuel is Trying to Isolate Israel...

Nov 7, 2009: Is President Obama Responsible for Abbas’ Political Decisions?
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The Nation’s Robert Dreyfus contends in a November 6, 2009 column in The Dreyfus Report that “The announcement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he will not run for reelection is the exclamation point on the utter collapse of the...

Mar 29, 2009: President Obama: I Think Afghan War is ‘America’s War’
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U.S. President Barack Obama expounded on his Afghan war strategy, which was announced March 27, 2009, in a March 29, 2009, appearance on the American television program Face the Nation, hosted by CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer. See...

Mar 28, 2009: Mr. Obama’s War
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I like the way C.M. Sennott of GlobalPost framed President Barack Obama’s newly minted Afghanistan strategy, which was announced March 26, 26, 2009. Writes Mr. Sennott in “Obama’s War”: Afghanistan just became Obama’s war. He owns it now. The same...