Word: administrationitis
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Iraq: By negotiating a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government shortly before leaving office, Bush made Obama's job a lot easier - because that agreement sets a cast-iron deadline for withdrawing all U.S. troops. Obama may press for an earlier drawdown to free up resources for...
Iran: Candidate Obama promised to engage with Iran, pointing out that the Bush Administration's policies of setting ultimatums backed by limited sanctions had failed to slow Iran's nuclear program. The Bush team did, of course, reach out discreetly to Tehran during its final year - though Obama made a...
Israel and the Palestinians: On his first day in office, Obama announced that he would prioritize an "aggressive" push for a two-state peace between Israel and the Palestinians. To jump-start talks, Obama demanded that Israel halt all settlement construction on territory conquered in 1967 and pressed Arab states...
Russia: The Obama Administration promised to hit the reset button in relations with Moscow, hoping that by addressing Russian concerns on the stationing of U.S. missile defense assets in Eastern Europe it could coax Russia on board with U.S. efforts to pressure Iran. But while the Administration berates the Russians...
North Korea: Bush initially tried to reverse the Clinton Administration's policy of multilateral talks offering North Korea incentives for refraining from building nuclear weapons. The North couldn't be trusted to keep its word, Bush said, and he wasn't necessarily wrong. But he soon discovered that he had...