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Obama legacy

  • SOURCE: Commentary
    1-19-17

    Where It All Went Wrong

    by Max Boot

    Wary of repeating what he perceived to be Bush’s mistake of over-interventionism, Obama instead veered toward extreme non-interventionism, with the exception of Libya and Afghanistan, where he imposed such severe limitations on American action that it made success impossible to achieve.

  • SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
    1-18-17

    How Will Obama Be Graded By History?

    While the public’s rankings may be fickle, it turns out that presidential approval ratings do a reasonably good job of suggesting where presidents rank in the longer term.

  • SOURCE: The Chicago Tribune
    12-29-16

    Obama never understood how history works

    by David Greenberg

    Obama's Syria legacy won't be the only factor shaping how posterity regards his foreign policy. The uneven efforts to wind down the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the still-controversial Iran nuclear deal, the opening to Cuba, the weakening of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, the struggles to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians - these add up to a mixed and complicated recor.

  • SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
    12-20-16

    Obama's failed foreign policy

    by Gil Troy

    ''The outgoing US president has spawned a callow, cowardly series of leadership miscarriages that bullied friends and empowered enemies.''

  • SOURCE: NPR
    12-14-16

    Partisan Divide Colors Obama's Place In History

    As President Obama prepares to leave office, 45 percent of Americans think he'll be remembered as an outstanding or above-average president, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.