Obama has inserted himself in the midst of a conflict even more difficult than the one between Republicans and Democrats, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ++ Despite Obama’s shift from an optimistic to a pessimistic outlook for the region, there has been progress made in the last year. ++ Violence in both territories has decreased, there have been no suicide attacks against Israel, and there
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President Obama’s “deferential diplomacy” cannot surmount fundamental transatlantic differences, as exemplified by the failure of a wider fiscal stimulus. ++ Demographic patterns dictate policy responses to the economic crisis. ++ The aging European countries, faced with a sooner “fiscal meltdown,” guard against debt increase due to the stimulus packages. ++ However, it is the “G2 of China
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