HillBuzz: There is no doubt that U.S. influence is waning under Obama. Maybe that’s exactly what he wants.

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Obama Snubbed Again    Posted on December 3, 2012 by Robert James // Foreign Policy, International, The Left, White House Policy     

It got very little play in the press, but President Obama was recently snubbed again on the world stage when 15 Asian nations formed a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership without the United States. Obama had traveled to Phnom Penh in an effort to “sell a US-based Trans-Pacific Partnership excluding China.” He failed.

Add this to a growing list of major failures by Barack Obama on the International Stage. He failed to bring the Olympics to Chicago. He failed to produce progress on the Israel-Palestine front (it’s actually getting worse). He’s failed to create any sort of consensus on what to do about Syria. He has failed to inhibit Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon.

There is no doubt that U.S. influence is waning under Obama. Maybe that’s exactly what he wants.

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