Obama’s foreign policy agenda has been no less audacious than his domestic undertakings. After eight years of American unilateralism that left behind a broken transatlantic alliance, resuscitated the specter of a cold war with Russia, and saw the Middle East decline into a doomsday politics, Obama’s injection of new thinking to endemic problems is extremely welcome.
奥巴马在外交政策上的魄力与其国内政策相比毫不逊色。在美国八年单边主义留下了一段破碎的跨大西洋联盟关系、召回了与俄罗斯之间的冷战幽灵并使中东陷入末日政局之后，奥巴马对地区性问题注入的新思维受到了极大的欢迎。