Obama grows weary of the global stage| Olivia Hampton
Rather than risk a one-term presidency with more failures than victories, he has put foreign goals aside to focus on the domestic
Weeks and months of non-stop mudslinging over healthcare have taken their toll on President Obama and placed his foreign policy agenda on the back burner.
An anxious world is asking what has become of all Obama’s promises to solve the thorniest and most entrenched problems, from the Middle East conflict to closing the internationally reviled Guantánamo prison camp and halting Iran’s nuclear defiance. As the flood of words dissipates with little concrete change to show, hope has faded, leaving disillusionment in its place.
Nowhere is this more true than in the…
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