Why Is The International Community Frowning On President Obama And His Foreign Policy Initiatives?

Presidential Candidate Obama in Berlin, July 24, 2008 (Photo from Wikimedia)

Barack Obama: Stumbling Towards Isolationism -- The Telegraph

One of the ironies of Barack Obama’s presidency is that he is increasingly distant from the world he promised to embrace, writes Toby Harnden in Washington

Europeans cheered Barack Obama every step of the way to the White House.

They swooned when the candidate took his stump skills to Berlin, where he spoke of "the burdens of global citizenship" and promised to "remake the world".

He had lived in Indonesia as a boy, travelled to Pakistan and Africa in his youth and came from a family that looked, as he liked to quip, "like the United Nations". Then, in his first year in office, he made 10 trips abroad to 21 countries, making him the most travelled of all United States presidents in their first 12 months.

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My Comment: Expectations were manufactured by the Obama team during the election and his pre-election world tour to such a high level that there was no way that Candidate Obama was going to be able to accommodate the many different factional and regional groups in the world when he assumed the Presidency.

As a result he now has the worse of all possible worlds .... disappointment among supporters .... scorn and disrespect from opponents.