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From ForeignPolicy.com:

Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack Obama has a split personality when it comes to foreign policy. So do most U.S. presidents, of course, and the ideas that inspire this one have a long history at the core of the American political tradition. In the past, such ideas have served the country well. But the conflicting impulses influencing how this young leader thinks about the world threaten to tear his presidency apart — and, in the worst scenario, turn him into a new Jimmy Carter.

Obama’s long deliberation over the war in Afghanistan is a case study in presidential schizophrenia: After 94 days of internal discussion and debate, he ended up splitting the difference — rushing in more troops as his generals wanted, while calling for their departure to begin in July 2011 as his liberal base demanded. It was a sober compromise that suggests a man struggling to reconcile his worldview with the weight of inherited problems. Like many of his predecessors, Obama is not only buffeted by strong political headwinds, but also pulled in opposing directions by two of the major schools of thought that have guided American foreign-policy debates since colonial times.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Frank_Ad_Hominem1019/ Frank_Ad_Hominem1019

    smh if the UN would establish the international army like it was supposed to we would not have such a burden. (wishful thinking i guess)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    shoutout to Obama’s big homie…….ZBIGNIEW BREZINSKI !!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    WOW!!!! if they start making the connection between Carter and Obama believable to the average independent voter, he might be a lame duck by year 3!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/k_stretch/ k_stretch

    That’s just ridiculous, but some politicians( Mostly Republicans) would like people to believe this nonsense, so as to bring alot of doubt or even destroy his presidency. All of these crazy lies and stories are being brought forth by people who stand to lose alot of money and power if President Obama changes previous policies that empower the status quo in this country. These people are not being held responsible for the lies and stories that they tell daily. Working class and rich people in this country of all races and male or female better wake up and pay attention to what lies ahead for us and the USA if they succeed in making people turn against President Obama. We will see hard times that only our great, great grandparents have seen and none of us are ready for that!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Don’t fool yourself K_Stretch. If People were really concerned with Obama changing policies affecting the status quo, he would have never been elected, or would be dead already. Only a few Pres. really tried to disrupt the REAL status quo, and all of them paid for it with their life. Obama is an agent for status quo, this is why the Pharmaceutical or healthcare providers made any real noise about “healthcare reform” They were going to make billions, and didn’t have to change much, in the way they did business. Asking companies to not turn people with pre conditions, is like asking All state to sell you a policy AFTER your car was stolen. Its pure lunacy. I’m not a supporter of Reps or Dems, but how do you expect any clear thinking person to vote for something so silly?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jizza1331/ Jizza1331

    Wow He’s been in office for only a year and he’s getting comparisons to Jimmy Carter, I think thats completly unfair. Even Jesus was given some time to work miracles and Obama last time I checked is not Jesus. Mr Obama is the President of the United States, do you know how much stress and pressure that comes with this job, This is not like being a head coach in the NBA, he does not have a 80 plus game season to try this thing out, any wrong deceision he makes can have an adverse affect on the rest of the free world (lets not forget just yet what the previous prez has done).

    So it took him 94 days to come to a deceision on afghanistan, mind you he has countless number of other major issues on his plate that he has to deal with(healthcare, the economy, those damn republican haters,unemployment), who are we to ask whats taking him so long to make up his mind, its like telling a surgeon to hurry up and operate on critical life altering operation. And the last time I checked Obama was not exactly handed the keys to a brand spanking new car, instead he inherited a broken down oldsmobile and is expecting to have it up and running on day one……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    @soular & A

    Exactly, the same policies and the same behind close door puppet masters.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Black_Queen09/ Black_Queen09

    OKAY ONCE AGAIN HERE WE GO WITH THAT REAL BULL SHYT… MY QUESTION TO THE BLACK KINGS AND QUEENS… WHY IS IT THAT WE AS BLACK KINGS AND QUEENS ALWAYS HAVE TO BE COMPARED TO SOMEONE WHITE??? IT’S D*MN CLEAR TO ME THAT IS WHAT’S WRONG WITH AMERICAN ALREADY… LETS FACE IT THE WHITE MAN IS TOTALLY A COMPLETE F**K UP… AND NOW THEY WANT US TO TAKE PART IN THAT STUPID D*MN DUMB SHYT SO THEY CAN JUSTIFY THEMSELVES IN THE PUBLIC EYE…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsRachel10/ MsRachel10

    Small minded people fear the President,he knows that they didnt make him and dont have a clue as to how to break him.I hope that he keep up the good work. The President has my support and most of America’s is pulling for him,Thanks for trying man.[smile} You could be somewhere sipping with your beautiful wife instead of being up in that house with them THUGS.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IvanRoss/ IvanRoss

    @ Frank_Ad_Hominem1019 for 1-29-2010 5:05 pmsmh if the UN would establish the international army like it was supposed to we would not have such a burden. (wishful thinking i guess)

    WOO WEE thats scary..

    We have had attempts at world armies… NATZI’s come to my mind.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bj24681357/ bj24681357

    Obama is a lame duck president now, while his polices may be good for a small organization they are not good for this country and remember he is a Muslim, he doesn’t give a damn about Americans.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cwm299/ cwm299

    Hey he has had important things to do: campaign for losing Democrats, do an ad for a TV show, try to get the Olympics, host hundreds of dinner parties, Man has been busy.

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