What has Obama done exactly? He has repudiated torture, pledged to shut down the Guantanamo detention facility, committed his administration to taking climate change seriously, put Middle East peace negotiations back on the agenda, criticized Israeli settlement policy, won a United Nations Security Council resolution pledging to rid the world of nuclear weapons, offered to engage Iran and North Korea in negotiations, and started reviewing U.S. strategy in the Afghanistan war.
Obama has rebranded America. Robin Niblett, director of Chatham House, a London-based think tank on world affairs, told The Washington Post, "Look, here, finally a U.S. leader who also represents our same values."
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