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Obama's Foreign-Policy Failures Go Far Beyond Iraq
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An assessment of the Obama adminstration's foreign policy for 2008-2016
11/15/2009
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Wall Street Journal 06/05/2013
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/2013
‘America Must Always Lead,’ Obama Tells West Point Graduates
New York Times 05/28/2014
Obama Defends U.S. Policy Based Less on Military Might
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
Notable & Quotable: Obama at West Point
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
Rebutting Critics, Obama Seeks Higher Bar for Military Action
New York Times 05/28/2014
U.S. president Obama's May 2014 speech at West Point on foreign policy and issues it raises about U.S. choices
05/28/2014
Was the president putting a gloss on foreign policy that has at times appeared to be vacillating and indecisive. Are labels such as isolationism, interventionism, multilateralism, misleading and a play on words for a foreign policy that was shy to face up to issues and threats, and sometimes ignored the best advice within his own party.
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Obama Defends U.S. Policy Based Less on Military Might
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
Notable & Quotable: Obama at West Point
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
Rebutting Critics, Obama Seeks Higher Bar for Military Action
New York Times 05/28/2014
President Obama Misses a Chance on Foreign Affairs
New York Times 05/28/2014
U.S. Sway in Asia Is Imperiled as China Challenges Alliances
New York Times 05/30/2014
New York Times 05/31/2014
Richard Haas on the chaotic management of foreign affairs by U.S. president Obama
04/30/2014
Grouped Articles
A Foreign Policy Flirting With Chaos
Wall Street Journal 04/30/2014
‘America Must Always Lead,’ Obama Tells West Point Graduates
New York Times 05/28/2014
U.S. Sway in Asia Is Imperiled as China Challenges Alliances
New York Times 05/30/2014
New York Times 05/31/2014
Obama's Foreign-Policy Failures Go Far Beyond Iraq
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2014
On the Iran Nuclear Deal: Yes, but . . .
Wall Street Journal 08/29/2015
How the Obama administration's policies in Syria, Iraq and towards Iran, have increased sectarian and religious conflict, and have pushed back democracy and economic development in the Middle East
06/10/2014
By allowing reckless intervention by Putin's Russia in Syria, and by its policies in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, the Obama administration has starved the hopes of an entire region heavily oriented towards a young demographic for participatory democracy and economic development, leaving it to descend into religious conflict, and then into sectarian conflict.
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Sunni Militants Drive Iraqi Army Out of Mosul
New York Times 06/10/2014
Mosul Falls to ISIS, Endangering Iraq’s Democracy
New York Times 06/11/2014
U.S. Scrambles to Help Iraq Fight Off Militants as Baghdad Is Threatened
New York Times 06/12/2014
Veterans Watch as Gains Their Friends Died for Are Erased by Insurgents
New York Times 06/13/2014
Obama Finds He Can’t Put Iraq War Behind Him
New York Times 06/13/2014
Iraqi Shiite Cleric Issues Call to Arms
New York Times 06/13/2014
Retired British diplomat Charles Crawford on on how U.S. policy on chemical weapons in Syria of president Obama has failed
09/11/2013
Crawford writes in the British daily, The Telegraph, on Sept. 10, 2013, on how sadly things have gone wrong. He calls it the worst day in western diplomatic history.
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Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria
New York Times 09/11/2013
Elite Syrian Unit Scatters Chemical Arms Stockpile
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Obama Is Lost in the Mideast Bazaar
Wall Street Journal 09/12/2013
Inside White House, a Head-Spinning Reversal on Chemical Weapons
Wall Street Journal 09/16/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/16/2013
The Obama administration slow response to the situation in Syria
08/23/2011
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Israel Says Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
New York Times 04/23/2013
New York Times 04/22/2013
What if the U.S. doesn’t intervene in Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
Why did Mr. Obama overrule his advisers on Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
New York Times 05/05/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2011
The use of chemical weapons by the Assad government in Syria and the failure of the U.S. Obama administration's response in Syria
08/23/2011
The western world looks on as chemical weapons are used repeatedly by Syria's Assad government, according to some reports. The lack of leadership from the U.S., France, Britain and Germany. The failure of the Russian government under Putin to separate global geopolitics from the aspirations of the people of Syria for freedom and democracy and the use of artillery and bombing of civilian population.
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Israel Says Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
New York Times 04/23/2013
New York Times 04/22/2013
Obamaâs Vow on Chemical Weapons Puts Him in Tough Spot
New York Times 05/04/2013
Pentagon Plans for the Worst in Syria
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2013
What if the U.S. doesn’t intervene in Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
Why did Mr. Obama overrule his advisers on Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
The Obama administration's decision to ask Congress for $500 million in June 2014 to aid moderate forces in Syria including the Free Syria Army
06/27/2014
The decision follows gains by the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) extremist Sunni militants over large areas in Sunni parts of Iraq. Sunnis alienated by the Maliki government's policies favoring Shiites have supported Sunni militants. The move comes late in the conflict after the Sunnis are left to fend for themselves in Syria and Iraq, and continues a policy of no active engagement of U.S. airpower in the region- increases aid that is already being sent, and serves the purpose of checking the gains of the ISIS, making no significant change to the situation in the region of a refugee crisis and expanded conflict. The move may be intended also to show a balance of support to Sunni and Shia, as the Obama administration is supporting the Maliki government against ISIS. The same support of moderates with a "no fly zone" could have kept U.S. combat forces out of the region and achieved what was achieved in Libya of freeing the region of the Assad regime, not emboldening Russia's Putin, stood up for America's support for democracy and freedom and condemnation of the use of chemical weapons, been consistent with American public opinion's desire for no large interventions overseas, continued focus on the domestic economy, and not compromised severely the hard won gains of America's military and servicemen in the last decade. So weak has been the Republican response and so partisan the politics, that few Democrats voices have been heard to questions the policies, so that a muddled policy based on the president's inclinations has been allowed to look sensible. It has made the U.S. look weak in Europe and Asia, as Russia and China have been emboldened in each region. Democrats have only to look to Truman in 1947-1950 when Berlin, Greece, South Korea, were not left to fall into chaos with millions of refugees and Russian Communist influence, to see the difference with the current policies, without a knee jerk reaction to the Bush era.
Grouped Articles
Obama's Foreign-Policy Failures Go Far Beyond Iraq
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2014
Syria Is Breeding Western Terrorists, U.S. Warns
Wall Street Journal 07/09/2014
Washington Post 07/12/2014
U.S. Sees Risks in Assisting a Compromised Iraqi Force
New York Times 07/13/2014
U.S. Approves More Hellfire Missiles for Iraq
Wall Street Journal 07/30/2014
Leaving U.S. Allies Adrift as Chaos Rises
Wall Street Journal 08/01/2014
Friedman on the foreign policy of U.S. president Obama in 2014 and in 2016
05/31/2014
Grouped Articles
New York Times 05/31/2014
Obama's Foreign-Policy Failures Go Far Beyond Iraq
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2014
Leaving U.S. Allies Adrift as Chaos Rises
Wall Street Journal 08/01/2014
As Crises Pile Up, a President Sticks to His Deliberative Approach
New York Times 09/06/2014
New York Times 04/05/2015
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
Russia experts and advisors to the Obama administration on the change in attitudes to Russia in Europe and the U.S. in 2014
04/02/2009
The Obama administration plans to take a new approach to Russia to contain Russian interventionist policies in the remaining two years of the second term and limit the relationship to working together on nuclear disarmament and vital issues. A loss of faith in the Obama administration and of president Obama in president Putin after a plan to reset relations on a sounder basis in 2008. This may be one of the costs of Russian president Putin's foreign policy- the cost to the Russian economy in reduced trade, foreign investment, and capital outflows from Russia.
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In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin
New York Times 04/19/2014
Promises of ‘Fresh Start’ for U.S.-Russia Relations
New York Times 04/02/2009
Russia Bonds Still Confront a Deep Chill
Wall Street Journal 04/04/2009
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2014
Competing Visions for Russia’s Economic Future
New York Times 05/22/2014
‘America Must Always Lead,’ Obama Tells West Point Graduates
New York Times 05/28/2014
Bill Keller of the NYT's message to U.S. president Obama on Egypt and Syria
05/05/2013
Grouped Articles
New York Times 08/25/2013
U.S. Prepares for Solo Strike On Syria After Britain Balks
Wall Street Journal 08/30/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/29/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/01/2013
GOP Leader Rallies for Obama Plan
Wall Street Journal 09/04/2013
New York Times 09/08/2013
A detailed account of the events in September 2013 involving Obama, Kerry, Hagel, White House and Congressional officials as president Obama reversed policy on Syria
09/16/2013
Grouped Articles
Inside White House, a Head-Spinning Reversal on Chemical Weapons
Wall Street Journal 09/16/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/16/2013
Saudi Arabia gets forceful on foreign policy - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/25/2013
Rice Offers a More Modest Strategy for Mideast
New York Times 10/26/2013
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/2013
‘America Must Always Lead,’ Obama Tells West Point Graduates
New York Times 05/28/2014
The consensus in the Obama administration to support Syria's democracy forces in summer 2011, and the U.S. president's failure to act
08/23/2011
Defense Secretary describes the plans supported by key members of the National Security team to support Syrian democracy forces in the summer of 2011- supported by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Clinton, General Dempsey of the Joint Chiefs, and CIA director Petraeus. The president failed to act because of approaching elections and the general hesitation to act that was displayed since the start of the democracy movement in Tunisia, and then through the movement's spread to Egypt, Libya, followed by Syria. The U.S. failed to grasp an opportunity for the Free World and create goodwill in the Arab world by standing up to its ideals of democracy and freedom.
Grouped Articles
Israel Says Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
New York Times 04/23/2013
New York Times 04/22/2013
Pentagon Plans for the Worst in Syria
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2013
What if the U.S. doesn’t intervene in Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
Why did Mr. Obama overrule his advisers on Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
New York Times 05/05/2013
The Obama plan that calls for Congressional approval for action in Syria.
09/04/2013
Grouped Articles
GOP Leader Rallies for Obama Plan
Wall Street Journal 09/04/2013
9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask | WorldViews
Washington Post 09/07/2013
New York Times 09/08/2013
President Makes a Tough Pitch to Weary Nation
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2013
Planned as Call to Act, Obamaâs Speech Became a Plea for Time
New York Times 09/11/2013
Inside White House, a Head-Spinning Reversal on Chemical Weapons
Wall Street Journal 09/16/2013
The WSJ on the faltering and indecision of the Obama administration's position on Syria
06/14/2013
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/14/2013
Heavy Pressure Led to Decision by Obama on Syrian Arms
New York Times 06/14/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/01/2013
GOP Leader Rallies for Obama Plan
Wall Street Journal 09/04/2013
9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask | WorldViews
Washington Post 09/07/2013
New York Times 09/08/2013
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