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Barack Obama's Guide to World Leaders |
2016-03-30 |
by Jeffrey Goldberg [The Atlantic] During the course of reporting on the Obama administration's foreign and defense policies over the past several years, I've gained a certain level of insight into its frustrations, proclivities, and predispositions in the international arena. Yet Jeffrey, you still carry him fondly in your heart-of-hearts President Obama himself is famously transactional when it comes to relations with other leaders; in my new article on his foreign policy, I make note of his strong belief that countries tend to act in what their leaders perceive to be their core interests, and I've come to see that Obama doesn't place enormous value in the notion that well-developed personal relationships between leaders could ever trump the cold-eyed pursuit of those interests. Yeah, the only relationship he values is with himself, like any true narcissist Nevertheless, he has intense relationships with many world leaders--and he has become, in his last years as president, a mentor to a handful of important new ones. Lord, help us In speaking over the years with senior officials in his administration and other close observers of the president's conduct of foreign relations, I've gathered impressions of how they parse the president's view of his counterparts in other countries. Sometimes, in interviews with me, the president has rendered his own judgments. Drawing on these conversations, I've attempted to place some of these leaders on a continuum reflecting the state of their relations with Obama--from actually warm to ice-cold." RTWT. Interesting take on how our 'Passive-Aggressive' leader thinks |
Posted by:Mullah Richard |
#4 Surrender, surrender, apologize, surrender. That covers it? |
Posted by: Shash Cromoger8186 2016-03-30 18:13 |
#3 Come to think of it, I do have a favorite - Putin doesn't understand his own best interest. Classic. |
Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-30 14:12 |
#2 There are several phrases that made me giggle (after a fashion). I can't pick out which one is best. SO I agree - RTWT. |
Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-30 14:10 |
#1 |
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-03-30 11:06 |