President George W. Bush had been criticized in America and abroad for his foreign policies, including his decisions to invade Iraq and Afghanistan during his eight years in office. After the 2008 election, many international editorials and commentators expressed hope that the new administration would provide a break from the previous administration's foreign policy choices. Peter Hartcher wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald that "Barack Obama did not materialise from a vacuum. He is America's response to the dramatic failures of George Bush. It was Bush who created the craving for change. Obama has now met that need." French historian and conservative Alexandre Adler, writing for Le Figaro, said Obama's victory was a "miracle" but "We shouldn’t treat Bush as a pariah." Marek Magierowski, writing for Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, said Obama's leadership will still be hegemony, just of another kind: "The problem is that this same America has lost its credibility in recent years. People from Lisbon to Karachi stopped believing in its good intentions and George W. Bush, unfortunately, has a lot to do with that. But Barack Obama now has such a huge capital of trust that he should quickly be able to rebuild its credibility." An editorial in the Mexico City daily La Jornada said Obama's election was historic and that "it would be unfair to ignore the strong and positive political and human differences between the victor in yesterday’s election and the man who, for the last eight years, has taken the power of the United States into its worst moral and economic abyss." The Toronto Star quipped that Americans craved change after Bush's "imperial" presidency.
[edit] See also [edit] References [edit] External Links【免费咨询报名电话：010-6801 7975】
咨询报名MSN:xueliedu@hotmail.com
试一试网上报名
咨询报名QQ：
| 1505847972 | 1256358232 | 1363884583 | 1902839745 | 800072298 | 754854002 |
| 中专升大专 | 中专升本科 | 高升专 | 高升本 | 专升本 | 自考 |
报名咨询在线MSN：
