So much for Barack Obama’s “Reset” foreign policy doctrine.<\/p>\n
Presumably, the potential payoff from Obama’s constant prostrate manner, his willingness to meet dictators like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “without preconditions,”<\/a> his repeated apologetics<\/a> and public disparagement of allies like Israel<\/a> would at least be improved perceptions of America abroad.\u00a0 Four years after introducing that doctrine, however, we’re still awaiting the payoff.\u00a0 Russia and China continue to obstruct U.S. policy, Israel is more endangered each day and the Iranians dislike us as much as ever.\u00a0 According to a new Gallup survey<\/a>, only 8% of Iranian respondents approve “of the job performance of the leadership of the United States,” while 67% disapprove.<\/p>\n This should prompt recalibration within the White House, because its foreign policy weakness is not showing results.\u00a0 Meanwhile, time is running out to halt Iran’s nuclear ambition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So much for Barack Obama’s “Reset” foreign policy doctrine. Presumably, the potential payoff from Obama’s constant prostrate manner, his willingness to meet dictators like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “without preconditions,” his repeated apologetics and public disparagement of allies like Israel would at least be improved perceptions of America abroad.\u00a0 Four years after introducing that doctrine, however, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,24,3379,1387],"class_list":["post-13181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-iran","tag-obama","tag-reset","tag-without-preconditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13184,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions\/13184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}