Barack Obama ran for president in part on the proposition that it was time to end the United States’ wars abroad and find ways to resolve conflicts without force. Thursday’s interim nuclear deal with Iran was the biggest achievement so far of this “open-hand” diplomacy and may have helped secure a foreign policy legacy that, for now, is mixed at best.
Apart from Afghanistan, there is no foreign policy issue he had spent more time on than Iran in his six years in office, a senior administration official said. A comprehensive agreement with Iran, if one is reached, could boost Obama’s …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
