President Obama started putting his mark on U.S. foreign policy from his very first hours in office. He quickly and deliberately presented a more conciliatory, multilateral approach to world affairs, analysts say. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
This piece is fairly innocuous, but does contain one "moan" canard toward the end, the sort of thing I've come to associate with NPR of late. They throw out this conservative talking point about Obama being "perceived as weak," in a quote by Josef Joffe. They mention that Joffe is a senior fellow at Stanford and pub-editor of Die Zeit, a German weekly, but fail to mention his Hoover Institution ties, the same group that gave rise to the likes of Ed Meece and Condi. (Nor do they mention Joffe's recent Bilderberg attendence...for you conspiracy folks). I don't think Joffe added anything constructive to the piece, and if NPR truly felt compelled to put this sort of statement in the article, they should have been more forthright as to the pedigree of its originator.
If we're talking about Obama changing world perceptions of the U.S., I would have liked to see more information of what those perceptions are, why and how they've changed, and what the current evolution might mean to our future regarding world affairs.