Emma M. Ashford
Security, Americas
We may well miss him when he’s gone.
Poor President Obama. The forty-fourth president may have left office with high approval ratings, but his foreign-policy choices are still being disparaged by commentators from all sides of the political spectrum. Indeed, it’s hard to find a positive article reflecting on his foreign-policy legacy.
But despite some poor decisions and policy missteps made during his administration, we shouldn’t exaggerate the extent of Obama’s foreign-policy failures. Things could have been a lot worse.
Hawkish criticisms of Obama’s approach to foreign policy are certainly nothing new. Indeed, the largely incorrect assertion that Obama …read more
Source: The National Interest
