Likewise, President Barack Obama thought democratization would better serve American interests and Middle Eastern stability, as his June 4, 2009 Cairo speech demonstrated. ..…

For eight years the Obama administration sought détente with Iran. American officials allowed the regime to ravage Syria and even cried in front of top Iranian diplomats in hopes of reaching a breakthrough. ..…

(Super PACs spent another $350 million to help Romney and $100 million to back Obama.) . A New American Tradition? . Rising income inequality, wage stagnation, and slowing social mobility hurt ordinary Americans economically, even as they confer massive social and political advantages on the..…

He thinks it means the belief, born with American Revolution, that United States has special destiny to spread its republican, values abroad.. Attacking Obama's to American exceptionalism became convenient way for hawks to denigrate the attachment to the country and to ridicule..…

Bush, Barack Obama, and now Donald Trump. . . . John Bolton is trying to cover up US war crimes in Afghanistan and the Middle East, American writer James Petras says. . Obama announced in 2013 that he was pulling out all US troops from the Arab country. ..…

With this broader definition of strategy in mind, we can move forward to assess recent American strategies in Syria. . . ... In fact, prior to this statement, the President himself had regularly and routinely ruled out a combat role for American soldiers on the ground in Syria. ..…