What Obama's Victory Means For US Foreign Policy

From The Guardian:

The president-elect faces stiff challenges in reshaping America's relationship with the rest of the world.

As election day approached, both presidential candidates were given a CIA briefing, sketching out the shape of the world the winner would inherit. At the end of an exhausting and sometimes terrifying list of global threats, Barack Obama took a deep breath, according to someone familiar with his session, and said: "Good grief, why do I want this job?"

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