Obama: Success or Failure?

[RazorMC]

Why Obama Failed in the Middle East

From the Arab Spring, to Syria, to Iran, to the peace process, President Barack Obama's actions have yet to live up to his high-flying rhetoric.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 2, 2013

It is the cruelest of ironies that President Barack Obama's legacy in the Middle East -- a signature issue for many U.S. presidents -- now lies in the hands of two of his most intractable adversaries: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. It also probably doesn't make him sleep any easier that the third major player is a man with whom he has a famously dysfunctional relationship: Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The comparisons to the end of the Cold War are perhaps a bit unfair. The president was indeed on the right side of history in the early acts of the Arab Spring: He recognized the inevitability of the end of America's authoritarian friends in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen -- and to his credit, he was proactive in helping get rid of Libyan autocrat Muammar al-Qaddafi.
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Had the Arab Spring moved in the right direction, Obama would have been hailed as a strategic genius for his smart, low-cost management from the sidelines. Sadly, it has moved the other way -- toward instability, violence, and dashed hopes. As a result, what people saw -- certainly those in the Middle East, where it's easy to blame somebody else for your troubles -- is a president who became strangely disconnected and who at best just seemed to have other things to do. At worst, he seemed to have simply stopped caring.

Interesting article about Obama's mideast policies. I personally feel that he was sworn in at possibly the most dangerous moments in the region: possible nuclearization of Iran, Israel's concerned and the GCC felt only a ripple of the Arab Spring.

These were difficult issues to deal with in the first place, but his popular drawdown from Iraq and Afghanistan will probably overshadow his mideast miseries.


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[muse]

Mr. Obama in general is a success at just two things, being the first Black American to have become President and second to have broken the back of the medicine/lnsurance lobby- other than that, it's difficult to see him as a success, policy wise

 

[fatman17]

success if you are a Dem - failure if you are a Rep - in a nutshell.
he hasnt done anything 'out-of-the-box' like getting Israel to give up the occupied territories / stop the construction of settlements so that peace can return to the holy lands - the irony is that he got the Nobel Peace Prize for what? - being an afro-american prez!!!!!

 

[RazorMC]

The Peace Prize is just a total dud. Obama was awarded that for making wonderful speeches about his new foreign policies, which later turned out be Bush's policies on steroids.

As for mideast policies, he hasn't done anything major but like I said, he can cover all that up with Af-Pak and OBL-raid. Plus, I'm not sure what percentage of Americans really care about the mideast as long as the oil flows and Israel is safe?

 

[ExtraOdinary]

reminds me of that obama ep. of southpark back in '08, people thought he'd be the cure of all their problems.

 

[bala]

hasnt done anything 'out-of-the-box' like getting Israel to give up the occupied territories / stop the construction of QUOTE]


Err what he is doing is helping and promoting the zionists silently to continue their trait.

I dont know what you people expected of him, but regardless who the president is they will always be the puppet and continue to do what is written - help the zionists, start wars, get CIA spies to kill people in Asia and Middle East.

He puts you to sleep when he speaks, he is boring, he is sleazy like he is not bothered "err good afternoon america, eerm i dont know what to say now so erm, yeah today our unemployment has fell by 0.2% erm this is good erm" oh just stfu.

 

[RazorMC]

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Err what he is doing is helping and promoting the zionists silently to continue their trait.

I dont know what you people expected of him, but regardless who the president is they will always be the puppet and continue to do what is written - help the zionists, start wars, get CIA spies to kill people in Asia and Middle East.

He puts you to sleep when he speaks, he is boring, he is sleazy like he is not bothered "err good afternoon america, eerm i dont know what to say now so erm, yeah today our unemployment has fell by 0.2% erm this is good erm" oh just stfu.

All depends on how strong your lobbying is and how much money you can put into it.

 

[Ming]

Committing genocide all over the world....that's a prerequisite for a successful American president.

 

[Thorough Pro]

What is the writers criteria of measuring success? Does he even know Obama's objectives in ME?

 

[RangerPK]

Obama successfully homosexualized American military. I won't be suprised if American soldiers would be carrying dildos instead of guns, and using Arab oil as lub.