The Obama administration needs to do a far better job in its second term when it comes to defining the issues and setting the scope of a reenergized US diplomatic effort in the region. In Obama’s first term, mediators were dispatched to the region within days of his inauguration.
在定义这些问题并决定美国的中东政策重振大计的框架方面，奥巴马政府在第二个任期内需要做出更棒的工作。在第一个任期中，奥巴马宣誓就职后几天就向中东地区派遣了特使。也许这一回奥巴马需要作出更大的努力，以发展连贯性政策为重。