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Obama's burden « Previous | |Next »
November 9, 2008

Barack Obama will have to repair the damage which his predecessor has perpetrated around the globe and within the US itself. It is a big ask. Expectations are high, too high. Close Guantanamo. Deconstruct the whole "war on terror". Get the US out of Iraq. Do something about Afghanistan. Oh, there's Israel and Palestine to sort out. Obama has been constructed as a modern Atlas, preparing to take the burdens of difficult global problems on his shoulders.

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It ain't going to happen. It cannot. Obama inherits a disastrous legacy of wars, financial crisis and poisoned alliances, an America still divided despite the signal achievement of his victory as a black man, and surrounded by an unstable and uncertain world.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 3:23 PM | | Comments (2)
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If Obama can undo just some of the damage Bush has done, by 2012 we'll be far ahead of where we would have been under any other president.