FRONT PAGE: "Obama Declares U.S. Will Pursue Thaw With Cuba: At Hemispheric Meeting; Sees 'New Direction'--Clinton Welcomes Castro Remarks," by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Alexei Barrionuevo, New York Times, 18 April 2009.NEWS ANALYSIS: "Clinton Impresses Foreign Audiences By Saying U.S. Policies Have Failed: Signs that a break from Bush doctrines may have an immediate effect," by Mark Landler, New York Times, 18 April 2009.
From a guy who wrote a 12-step recovery plan for America's foreign policy following Bush, not much to complain about here.
What I like best? America has returned to being unpredictable, meaning we're out of the business of letting others determine our foreign policy through their actions. Bush had that feeling in his first term, but his second was disastrously reactive: we were Pavlov's dog.
Now we're back to normal.
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