Obama's Foreign Policy: 0 - 4 So Far

Steven Walt writes that Obama is likely to be zero for four on big foreign policy goals going into 2012, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Israel:

Obama didn't get us into Iraq, and he's doing the right thing to get usout more-or-less on the schedule that the Bush adminstration negotiatedback in 2008. But it's now clear that the much-vaunted "surge" was astrategic failure, and Iraq could easily spin back out of control onceU.S. forces are gone. Even in the best case, Iraq can only be judged adefeat...