President Obama’s Foreign Policy

by

Vassilios Damiras

President Barack Obama’s foreign policy can be analyzed in two parts:

first, his goals and decision-making mechanism and, second, his policies and
implementation. His foreign policy-making team, which centered on the
White House, is headed by the president, who relies on Vice President Joe
Biden and his National Security Adviser General James Jones. His National
Security Council is over 200 person in stuff is almost four times large that
NSC staffs of Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush
and almost ten times as large a President John F. Kennedy. In addition,
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton play an
important role on president’s foreign policy decision. Moreover, Rahm
Emmanuel his chief of stuff and David Axelord his senior adviser are part of
the foreign policy decision-making machine. Finally, the President relies on
various special foreign policy envoys such as, Richard Holbrooke regarding
on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of course, President Obama himself is the main
source of strategic direction. The new U.S. strategic direction indicates a
very vague and idealistic approach to U.S. national security interests.

President Obama indicated that is the first post-American president

that he equalizes the American exceptionalism with the other countries
across the globe such as Cuba and Zimbabwe. His image standing above his
country and above the world vividly indicates the post-American way of
thinking. Under that banner has fluctuated in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Specifically, in Iraq has introduced a timetable for American withdrawal and
in Afghanistan agreed to send only 30,000 troops instead of 40,000 that it
was recommended by the U.S. Army. He hastily wants to close Gitmo. He
vacillates how to fight the war against terror even after the Fort Hood and
the Christmas incidents. Lately, he discovers that we are at war with a brutal
enemy.

Moreover, the Obama administration has extended a hand to North

Korea, only to see that the totalitarian regime to conduct another nuclear
test, launch more ballistic missiles, and kidnap two American reporters.
Evidently, the leader Kim Jong ll did not get the memo for the “reset button.”
Without any reservations North Korea continues her nuclear program.

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 Regarding Iran, President Obama is so determine to engage in talks
that overlooks how the brutal regime handles the country’s democratic
movement. Iran has being transform from a theological autocracy into a
theological military dictatorship. In addition, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps controls both Iran’s nuclear weapons program and its support and
funding of various Islamic terrorist groups throughout the globe. As the total
failure of negotiations with Iran appears more obvious by the minute, the
Obama administration’s main strategy is to rely on sanctions. However,
sanctions cannot work or usually take time to work due to weak international
response from other countries. There are two scenarios two stop Iranian
regime in its nuclear escapade. The first is regime change or preemptive
military attack to the nuclear sites.

It is imperative to have a president, who believes on American

exceptionalism, because this American exceptionalism defeated Germany
twice in 1918 and in 1945, defeated Japan in 1945, created NATO, stabilize
Europe and the globe, defeated communism, librated Iraq from the brutal
regime of Saddam Hussein, freed Afghanistan form the Taliban, continues to
fight Al-Qaeda, and defends liberty and freedom across the world. Finally,
the president needs to understand that the best place to defend our national
interest is overseas not in the streets of America. Without a clear foreign
policy, the various American national interests across the world are in
danger.