Barack Obama took office as president with confidence that he could dramatically improve America’s relationships with nations around the world. Eight years later, his foreign policy successes have been significant and his failures apparent. Not surprisingly, he has found campaigning and governing are two very different activities.
He inherited a tough set of difficult, even unprecedented, international challenges, including an unraveling in the Middle East, Russian aggression, the rise of China and North Korea’s nuclear advances, among others. To expect any president to resolve all of these challenges is asking a lot, probably too much.
Obama’s critics claim he has been …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
