Obama rejected his predecessor George W. Bush’s policy of isolating “rogue states,” recognizing that America’s only hope for influencing isolated countries’ behavior was to engage directly with them in a bilateral context. And, as a bilateral strategy, engagement has proved to be astonishingly successful, having led to historic openings, first to Myanmar and now to Cuba, while driving progress toward an enduring nuclear agreement with Iran.
奥巴马拒绝了他的前任小布什的孤立“流氓国家”的政策，承认美国影响被孤立国家行为的唯一希望是直接参与到与它们的双边环境中。此外，作为双边战略的参与取得了令人惊讶的成功，带来了历史性的开放，首先是缅甸，现在是古巴，同时也推进了与伊朗的长期核协议。