| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Taking the Measure of Obama’s Foreign Policy |
| Eliot A. Cohen
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| 发表日期 | 2010-01-11
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| 出版年 | 2010
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | If the first year of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy were a law firm in Charles Dickens’s London, it would have a name like Bumble, Stumble and Skid.
It began with apologies to the Muslim world that went nowhere, a doomed attempt to beat Israel into line, utopian pleas to abolish nuclear weapons, unreciprocated concessions to Russia, and a curt note to the British to take back the bust of Winston Churchill that had graced the Oval Office. It continued with principled offers of serious negotiation to an Iranian regime too busy torturing, raping and killing demonstrators, and building new underground nuclear facilities, to take them up. Subsequently Beijing smothered domestic coverage of a presidential visit but did give the world the spectacle of the American commander in chief getting a talking-to about fiscal responsibility from a Communist chieftain.
The lovely town of Copenhagen staged not one, but two humiliations: the first when the Olympic Committee delivered the bad news that the president’s effort to play hometown booster had failed utterly, before he even landed back in the U.S.; the second when the Chinese once again poked the U.S. in the eye by sending minor officials to meet with Mr. Obama, as they, the Indians and Brazilians tried to shoulder him out of cozy meetings aimed at sabotaging his environmental policy. Even smitten foreign admirers–in the case of the Nobel Prize, some addled Norwegian notables–managed to make him look bad.
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Eliot A. Cohen is a member of AEI’s Council of Academic Advisers.
Photo credit: White House/Pete Souza |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; Middle East
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| 标签 | foreign
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/taking-the-measure-of-obamas-foreign-policy/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/248464
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