Posted on 11/11/2016 7:59:08 AM PST by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy rests in part on a foundation of unilateral actions that his successor Donald Trump could reverse with the stroke of a pen.
Due to take office on Jan. 20, Trump, the winner in Tuesday's election, campaigned at times to dismantle Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and to reimpose sanctions Obama eased on Cuba. Trump also disagreed with foreign policy decisions that included the way Obama has deployed troops abroad to combat Islamist militant groups.
In his most notable foreign policy achievements, Obama, a Democrat, used executive authorities that offered a convenient legal path around a Republican-controlled Congress committed to blocking his agenda.
The U.S. Constitution gives a president broad executive powers to enact foreign policy. Both Republican and Democratic presidents have sought to exercise those powers by issuing executive orders, presidential memoranda and what are called findings.
"He (Obama) relied on executive authority to build a foreign policy legacy," said Thomas Wright, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution.
"That is all vulnerable to countervailing executive authority by a Trump administration," Wright said.
Obama had hoped to pass his legacy on to Democrat Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state, but she lost the presidential election to Trump, a Republican businessman who has never held public office or served in the military.
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Obama’s legacy of failure.
Obama’s “foreign policy” was designed to hurt America’s allies and strengthen her enemies, so......
Stroke of the pen, law of the land - kinda kewl.
What can he legally do about that Iran deal?
Just get rid of them....ALL of them. Every single last one.
Erase? He will REPAIR foreign policy.
He had better.
The Donald Trump victory on Election Day is the only Obama legacy that will remain after Trump’s first 100 days.
I love this. I have been thinking “WE WON” when I see these Libs tell us this and that...
Oh, and when GOPE does it too.
Investigate and jail Obutthole. Same with the Clintoons. Reverse everything Oscumsucker did.
Drain the swamp.
Trump, a Republican businessman who has never held public office or served in the military.
Or Clinton, a democrat politician who has never built
a business or served in the military...
“Pens and phones” don’t make for a lasting legacy.
The problem is that foreign policy failures can take generations to fix. We are still paying for Carter’s Iran policy.
I’ve waiting 8 years to shove Obama’s “I won!” statement up his ass!
“Like with a cloth?”
Screw that POS O-hole’s “legacy”... we have a country to save, and everything that represents that so-called “legacy” has been detrimental to the nation and its citizens.
Hey you Yahol.....HE will determine it.........did you Yahoo ever question who would determine the Constitutionality of Obambi’s overzealous EOs?
No, you Yahoo didn’t
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