Just before his second election win, President Barack Obama was caught by a surreptitiously live microphone whispering confidences in the ears of the then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The gist of the whisper, later broadcast by eavesdroppers in the US media, was an Obama promise to be “more flexible” in his second term in office.
We may never know what the president exactly meant by that vague phrase. However, several opportunist powers and rogue states took it to mean that Obama saw his mission as one of “restraining” the United States rather than using its immense resources to impose an American …read more
Source: ASHARQ AL-AWSAT
