ANALYSIS
Why Barack Obama’s disengagement abroad may not be such a bad thing: Neil Macdonald


I am among the few who watched from a few metres away as Barack Obama stood onstage that hot November evening, aflame with the promise of a new, inclusive America, accepting the presidency.

And as the new Burning President stood before pure weeping adulation in Chicago that night, celebrations erupted across America. Things were going to change.

Then, of course, they didn’t. Like Burning Man, Obama’s swollen optimism ran into corporate and political power, and had to adapt.

Surrendering U.S. pre-eminence

That’s not to say the president has done such a bad job.

He pushed through a stimulus package which, combined with George W. Bush’s massive, socialist, Wall Street bailout, probably saved the economy.

Obama delivered Obamacare, ending the savage reality of Americans dying because they couldn’t afford medical treatment.

And he wound down the Bush administration’s disastrous foreign military adventures.




http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/why-barack-obama-s-disengagement-abroad-may-not-be-such-a-bad-thing-neil-macdonald-1.2754369?cmp=rss