Ed Krayewski on President Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy

With
just about two and a half years left of President Obama’s second
term, it’s legacy-building time at the White House. Last week the
president gave two foreign policy speeches, in Afghanistan on
Memorial Day to announce that the war in Afghanistan was ending by
the end of the year, and at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
where he announced 10,000 troops would be left behind. The
president told graduating cadets they could be the first class
since 9/11 not to serve in Afghanistan or Iraq. Or, as Ed Krayewski
writes, they may not be; such hedging and contradictions have been
hallmarks of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy.

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