Advisers to the US president: Obama’s friend failed to kings and world leaders
Advisers to the US president: Obama’s friend failed to kings and world leaders
Follow-Iraq Press -11 March / March 2015
US President Barack Obama approached the end of his reign, achieving successes and failures in aspects of the other.
But one thing the President of the United States failed, miserably is the formation of a solid friendship with most of the kings and leaders, who met at the White House, he or visit them in their home countries.
Advisors to the President admitted in a report published by the newspaper “New York Times” that all efforts made by the President in order to create a warm relationship with the majority of kings or presidents ended in failure, is likely to come out of the White House without close friendships.
The reason for this failure to the personal nature of Obama himself “isolationism”, which deals with politicians on the way “business”, in specific and direct negotiations with respect to common issues with distance as possible from the personal side or emotional.
Obama differs from his predecessors of American presidents who have devoted a lot of time for personal relationships with the leaders, in order to mitigate the potential to occur at any time of political differences, or to maintain the tense relations of total collapse.
Obama is the exact opposite of his predecessor, President George W. Bush, who made a major effort to build a network of personal relationships with the leaders, and has been associated with friendships document continued even after the end of his term in 2008.
President Bill Clinton was also skilled at winning the hearts of meet them in order to invest personal relationship with them in a timely manner.
It is known that American presidents interest in creating a solid friendships is not new; President Ronald Reagan was associated with a profound friendship with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which resulted in the economic and political collaborations changed the face of the modern era.
As well as the close relationship that linked the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended close their cooperation to eliminate the Nazi threat in World War II. Friendship between the two leaders would not invest the time and effort to build together has not been established.
After the Pearl Harbor attacks on the US coast, Churchill spent several weeks in the White House in order to deepen the bonds of friendship with Roosevelt.
But spend days “personal” out of politics, accompanied by the leader or even show a sincere desire to configure and friendly relationship with him away from the language of “business” interests, not in Obama’s personal dictionary.
List of failed friendships
Obama spent two days with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in the sunny city of Los Angeles in order to melt the ice between the two countries, and the formation of the fact that friendship with the Chinese leader, but the result was disappointing and did not come to anything.
In earlier times, Obama approached the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and after signs of improvement in the relationship appeared, suddenly collapsed due to spy on US intelligence Germans phones that angered Merkel scandal since that time.
As Obama’s personal relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin was in very bad even before the Russian tanks crossing the Ukrainian border and occupies Crimea.
However, the US president was right in his dealings dry with some leaders. Erth not since the beginning of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, cut live TV interviews with him, which was carried out periodically by his predecessor, President Bush.
Dissatisfaction with the owners is suspected in the back of his intentions, and for the same reason deteriorated relationship with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Although Obama’s relationship with its allies, French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron is good, it is not warm in any way.
And saw the state of oscillation between good and bad, Obama’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but arrived to perigee Finally, after the last speech before the US Congress.
After that relationship evolved initially with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the relationship was soon dropped.
The only friendship that Obama succeeded in documenting it was with former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who did not abide long in the presidency.
It seems that the reason that friendship which strengthened quickly is that presidents belong to the basis for the legal profession before they go into the world of politics.
Because of this failure, Obama tasked make friends of his secretary of state, John Kerry, who devoted much of his time personally to get closer to the leaders and foreign ministers mission, at which time the boss relegated lonely and isolated at home Alabad.anthy (1)
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