"Everyone Wants Respect, But Hardly Anyone Is Willing to Pay for It"
In an article titled “Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage,” Der Spiegel sums up President Obama’s Asian trip as a complete failure:
Barack Obama looked tired on Thursday, as he stood in the Blue House in Seoul, the official residence of the South Korean president. He also seemed irritable and even [...]
Obama Awarded a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do
Andrew Malcolm wrote this up yesterday, news from the last stop of Obama’s Asia trip:
Even President Obama himself during his just-concluded trip to Asia admitted that he was surprised to receive the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year without actually producing any peace.
In fact, the rookie American president ordered his own troop surge, boosting U.S. [...]
Obama says he got more grey hair during first year as president - Newstrack India
London, November 19 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has new concerns to address in addition to the stock of national and international problems - greying hair. The 48-year-old leader confessed in a one of several interviews before heading for Seoul …
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Peter Van Buren’s depressing story
Peter Van Buren is a Foreign Service officer who has served for over twenty years as a consular officer overseas, mostly in Asian postings. He is at present serving in what he refers to as an out-of-area assignment for the State Department in Virginia. He has sent us this account of his story:
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