Obama’s Foreign Policy Successes

[babylonsister]

Here's a concise list for anyone who wants one, and the gop response...

http://thinkprogress.org/report/obama-foreign-policy-successes/

Obama’s Foreign Policy Successes

By ThinkProgress on Nov 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm


KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, RAMPED UP CAMPAIGN AGAINST AL QAEDA



Obama’s policy: Soon after taking office, President Obama ordered then-CIA director Leon Panetta to “redouble” efforts to track down al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Just six months after 9/11, President Bush said of bin Laden, “I really just don’t spend much time on” bin Laden. In 2005, Bush shut down the CIA’s unit dedicated to tracking him because resources were needed to fight the war in Iraq. Nearly three years later, Obama ordered a Navy SEAL raid into bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing the al-Qaeda leader and obtaining troves of valuable intelligence on the terror network. Then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called President Obama’s decision to get bin Laden “one of the most courageous calls I’ve ever seen a president make.”

GOP’s response: The GOP refused to credit the Obama administration with planning and executing the raid and baselessly claimed the Bush administration’s torture program led to the killing of Bin Laden.

Outcome: Bin Laden’s death brought an end to a nearly decade long manhunt. No civilians or U.S. military personnel were killed. Indeed, as CAP’s Brian Katulis and Peter Juul note, “the Al Qaeda network over the past three years suffered its greatest losses since the United States and its allies evicted the terrorist organization from Afghanistan in 2001.”


MOBILIZED INT’L COALITION TO PROTECT LIBYAN PRO-DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATORS



Obama’s policy: The Obama administration, led by Susan Rice at the United Nations, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at NATO, pulled together an international coalition to approve and successfully execute a no-fly zone over Libya to protect anti-Qaddafi rebels.

GOP’s response: Republicans parroted Qaddafi’s propaganda claiming that Al Qaeda was behind the rebel uprising. With Qaddafi’s death, Republicans again refused to credit Obama, mocked the White House for “leading from behind” and criticized the administration’s strategy for failing to use more U.S. air-power or putting American “boots on the ground.”

Outcome: In just seven months and spending only $1 billion, coalition forces helped the rebels successfully overthrow the Qaddafi regime on october 20, 2011.


ORDERED THE COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. FORCES FROM IRAQ BY END OF THE YEAR

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http://thinkprogress.org/report/obama-foreign-policy-successes/

[jaxx]

1. Excellent report.......lots of successes!

K&R

[Number23]

2. K&R

[gateley]

3. He's the one I WANT to take that 3am call! Good job(s), Mr. President! nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. K & R

:kick:

[DCBob]

5. President Obama has taken the Foreign Policy cred away from the Republicans..

Notice very few mentions of foreign policy issue attacks on the President from the GOPer candidates. It quite a change from the past.

[Vattel]

6. More war in Afgahnistan, yay!!!!!

Unconstitutional war in Libya. Yay!!!!

Another nail in the coffin of the War Powers Act. Yay!!!!

Killing scores of innocent people as collateral damage. Yay!!!!

Why, he's almost as tough as a Republican. Yay!!!!

Assassination of an American citizen without due process. Yay!!!!

Highest defense budgets since WWII. Yay!!!!

(sarcasm)