Perhaps Obama's foreign policy isn't the disaster that weakened America as his rightwing critics have it:
Quote:Mr Chollet argues that Mr Obama is misunderstood because he likes to play what the author calls the “long game”. The book portrays the president as trying to be Warren Buffett in a foreign-policy debate dominated by day traders. He has an unwavering view of what is in America’s long-term interests and refuses to be forced by impatient demands for action to intervene in ways that may be temporarily satisfying but have little prospect of success at acceptable cost. To this end, Mr Chollet argues that Mr Obama has formulated what amounts to a long-game checklist, a series of principles that should be applied to managing American power and making strategic choices.Playing it long | The Economist
For Mr Chollet this mix of cautious pragmatism and cool realism finds an echo in the approach of two Republican predecessors, Dwight Eisenhower and the first George Bush, whose reputations have grown considerably since their departure from office. Mr Chollet reckons that this president’s foreign policy will look pretty good too once hindsight kicks in.