The Middle East

Interesting article on how Obama continues GW Bush's middle east policies, but with a defter (and hence, more effective) touch.

In some ways, President Obama’s Middle Eastern foreign policy does for President Bush’s democratization policy what President Eisenhower did for President Truman’s containment doctrine. In both cases, a necessary and useful foreign policy had become deeply unpopular; Eisenhower implemented containment but made the country feel better about it — partly by rhetorical shifts, partly by tweaking the execution. Obama is trying to do the same thing with Bush’s transformation agenda.

Right now, Obama's strength has got to be his foreign policy. He is calmly overseeing historical changes in the Middle East and he got OBL.