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Obama Needs To Channel Nixon

January 30, 2010 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Barack Obama, International Affairs, Richard Nixon 

Steve Clemons, publisher of the Washington Note and Executive Vice President of the New America Foundation, argues that President Obama needs to follow a more disciplined foreign policy in the fashion of RN:

I think for a while, this strategy worked — as Obama did tilt toward a realist course in foreign policy. He recognized that like Nixon he had under his stewardship a constrained and limited presidency given the damage during the Bush years.

Only problem was that Obama’s realists don’t do realism so well — and many on his team are not sold on the discipline and importance of national priority-setting that a realist, or progressive realist, approach requires.



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One Response to “Obama Needs To Channel Nixon”

  1. DAVID PHILLIPS on January 30th, 2010 12:40 pm

    THE ACTUAL ‘PROBLEM’ IS – Obama is actually TRYING ‘to channel Nixon’ – but his actions and those of his languid Administration betray that reality!

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