President Obama’s bold announcement last week on Cuba has upended the conventional narrative that his administration, buffeted by foreign policy crises throughout 2014, had lost its ability to set the international agenda. Instead, he seems poised to make 2015 a year when he at last realizes his earliest supporters’ hopes for dramatic change, and makes irreversible the new direction for America’s role in the world whose promise had earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in his first months in office.
The twinned crises that dogged Obama’s foreign policy team this past year, and led to declining approval ratings for the …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
