The Atlantic magazine published a long story about the US President Barack Obama and his view of foreign policy under the title “The Obama Doctrine.” As a result, Arab newspapers said that Obama was attacking Saudi Arabia and hated Arabs.
Obama’s views show that he lives in a bubble where he prefers to read fiction rather than books on politics or history. He probably also reads reports presented to him and thus demonstrates that the president is able to ignore and override institutions in America.
What the magazine published is not against a particular individual because Obama criticized everyone except Iran and Russia, of course. He criticized the Europeans, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and described British Prime Minister David Cameron as “absent minded.”
He criticized Netanyahu, the Turkish president and Gulf states and is of the opinion that they seek to use America’s “muscles” to serve their interests and demand a free ride! The article also stated that Obama told a foreign guest that he had heard a member of Congress criticizing him and told the foreign guest that he should have confronted the member over those criticisms. Obama also interrupted the Israeli prime minister whilst he was explaining the circumstances of the region by asking him whether he believes that the first African-American president and the son of a mother who provided for him financially did not know the region!
All of this indicates that we are dealing with a man who lives in a bubble, is full of arrogance and idealism. He dreamed of seeing Wael Ghoneim as the president of Egypt and according to The Atlantic, thinks that Daesh does not constitute an internal threat to America but that climate change does.
It is also said that he called for the departure of Bashar Assad because he believed that Assad would leave at the same speed as the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The article also shows that Obama criticized the former and current Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry respectively. It also indicates that he was irritated by his ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power as well as the US National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and that he was worried that the reports submitted to him were misleading and would lead to foreign interventions that he did not want to undertake. What is worse is that his close team describes the street on which the most important research center in Washington is located as the Arab- occupied area.
The article in question shows that the president is a dreamer and is frustrated. He rushed into attacking everyone before he left and here is his administration trying to limit the damage caused by his undiplomatic views.
