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The Obama Foreign Policy
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Important Cabinet Members
Vice President Joe Biden
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
(2009 – 2013)
New Travel Records
Miles Traveled (95,733) and Countries Visited (112)
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
(2006 – 2011)
• From President Bush’s Cabinet
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Current Cabinet Secretaries
John Kerry
State Secretary
Chuck Hagel
Defense Secretary
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Obama: The Peace President
Earning His Nobel Peace Prize
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Guantanamo Prison, Cuba (2002)
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Symbol of American Hypocrisy
Detainees held without a trial
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Executive Order #13492 (1/22/09)
Guantanamo Prison will close within 1 year
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Gitmo Still Opened for Business
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Cairo, Egypt Speech
June 4, 2009
Called for a “new
beginning” in
relations between
the Islamic world
and the United
States and
promoting Middle
East peace.”
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Nuclear Disarmament
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New START Treaty
April 8, 2010
• Would cut nuclear arsenals by a 1/3
• US Senate Approval –December 22, 2010
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Iranian Nuclear Disarmament November 24, 2013
• 6 month deal
• Iran: slow development and allow more monitoring
• US: ease sanctions
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Obama: The War President
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Promised to End Iraq War
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US Will Withdraw from Iraq (2/27/09)
US forces will follow the SOFA and withdraw by 2011
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US Withdrawal from Iraq
December 18, 2011
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American Cost (11/2012)
American Deaths:
4,488 American Monetary
Cost:
$804 billion
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Total Overall Cost of Iraq War
(Pentagon)
$2 Trillion
$2,000,000,000,000
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Obama and Afghanistan
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Troop Surge (February 2009)
17,000 Increase (98,000 Total)
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Purpose: Increase Security (Iraq)
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General David Petraeus
Top US Counterinsurgency General
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Where’s Bin Laden?
• Trail went “cold” in 2005
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Abbottabad, Pakistan
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Bin Laden Compound (2005)
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Cabinet Meeting
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Operation Neptune Spear
May 1, 2011
“Geronimo: E-K.I.A.”
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US troops: withdrawal by end of 2016
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American Cost (05/23/2014)
American deaths:
2,322
American Monetary Cost:
$719 billion
Sources:
iCasualties.org and CostofWar.com
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Afghanistan: The Longest US War
(2001 - ????)
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Problem: Somali Pirates (2009)
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Who Are These Somali Pirates?
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Hijacking of the US Maersk Alabama
April 8 – 12, 2009
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Problem: Lifeboat and Prisoner
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April 12: Snipers to the Rescue
• About 40 yards away
• Moving target
• At night
• Simultaneous Hit
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Rescue of Captain Phillips
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The Arab Spring (2010 - ????)
Next Problem to Spring Up
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Where did the Arab Spring start?
Tunisia Mohamed Bouazizi
December 17, 2010
Self-Immolation
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Arab Spring in Libya
Muammar al-Gaddafi
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Gaddafi’s Army attacked Libyan people
Would the world and the US respond?
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Operation Unified Protector
March 24 – October 31, 2011
NATO military enforced UN resolution
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Muammar Gaddafi Killed near Sirte
October 20, 2011
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Muammar Gaddafi Killed
October 20, 2011
NATO air strike near Sirte
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Attack on Benghazi Embassy, Libya
September 11, 2012
• 4 Americans were killed
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Syrian Civil War
• over 160,000 deaths (since March 2011) ABC 5/19/14
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Results of the Arab Spring
Egyptian
Hosni Mubarak
(Feb 2011)
Tunisian
Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali
(Jan 2011)
Libyan
Muammar Gaddafi
(Oct 2011)
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What will be the US role in the
Arab Spring?
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Obama: “Pivot” toward Asia (2011)
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What’s Next