Obama's foreign policy legacy assessed

Record ID: 80061

  • Title: Obama's foreign policy legacy assessed
  • Date: 4th November 2016
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 15, 2016) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) MICHAEL O'HANLON, A SENIOR FELLOW IN FOREIGN POLICY AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION THINK TANK, SAYING: "It's true that when Barack Obama withdrew from Iraq at the request of the Iraqi political system but perhaps with less American effort to talk them out of that then we should have made, it gave rise to opportunities for ISIS. But we didn't create ISIS. We didn't create the metastasis of al-Qaeda either."
  • Embargoed: 19th November 2016 17:18
  • Keywords: Obama legacy Middle East Islamic State ISIS ISIL Syria Libya Iraq Iran Israel Palestinian Cuba China climate change
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  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00C571PD8N
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