Obama Failing to Confront Tough Questions with Iran, Afghanistan

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TweetObama Failing to Confront Tough Questions with Iran, Afghanistan





WASHINGTON - After his efforts at diplomacy on the international stage last week, President Barack Obama faces some particularly daunting foreign policy decisions about the Afghan war, a nuclear Iran and an elusive Middle East peace.

The world's problems only add to the issues plaguing Obama at home: nearly 10 percent unemployment and a fractious Congress squabbling over his plans to overhaul healthcare and curb the gas emissions that are warming the planet.

Having made his debut at the United Nations and hosted the Group of 20 financial summit in Pittsburgh, Obama has returned to Washington to a three-month make-or-break period before lawmakers start campaigning for 2010 elections.

"He's been setting the stage for progress on a lot of issues where the progress is going to be very difficult," said George Perkovich, a nuclear policy expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

None of these problems was solved last week.

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Tweetdid anyone see the segment on 60 minutes last night with the american general in charge of afghanistan? He said he has talked to obama once since obama took office.what a fu cking joke. iraq and afghanistan are places nobody wants to be reminded of. Out of sight and out of mind.