The trip – the first foreign visit of his second term – carries important implications for US foreign policy. Rather than providing the breakthrough for which many had hoped, it demonstrated that Obama – unlike other second-term US presidents, who have staked their legacies on foreign policy – is interested primarily in securing a domestic legacy.
马德里—早已被人预料到的奥巴马以色列之行已尘埃落定，我们可以分析一下这次访问的重要意义。这次访问——奥巴马第二个任期的首次出访——对美国外交政策有着重要含义。它并没有如很多人希望的那样形成突破，而是表明了奥巴马——与其他总统在第二个任期内打上自己鲜明外交政策烙印不同——的主要意图是为自己打上内政烙印。