Obama’s 100 days report card
For the past few days, FP‘s been calling and emailing some of our favorite foreign policy thinkers to get their grades on U.S. President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. We have all the responses here, but here’s a cheat-sheet of the marks: A Walter Russell Mead Lawrence Korb Ricardo Avila Parag Khanna Laura ...
For the past few days, FP's been calling and emailing some of our favorite foreign policy thinkers to get their grades on U.S. President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. We have all the responses here, but here's a cheat-sheet of the marks:
A
Walter Russell Mead
For the past few days, FP‘s been calling and emailing some of our favorite foreign policy thinkers to get their grades on U.S. President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. We have all the responses here, but here’s a cheat-sheet of the marks:
A
Walter Russell Mead
Lawrence Korb
Ricardo Avila
Parag Khanna
Laura Secor
A-
Charles Kupchan
Paul Pillar
Karim Sadjadpour
Jose Manuel Calvo
Marc Lynch
B+
Robert Kagan
Meghan O’Sullivan
Gianni Riotta
Cristina Manzano
Fawaz A. Gerges
Dmitri Trenin
Michael O’Hanlon
Ivan Krastev
David Rieff
Stephen Walt
B
Antonio Carlucci
John Mueller
B-
Philip Levy
Suzanne Maloney
William Inboden
Peter Feaver
C+
Dov Zakheim
Christian Brose
Michael Singh
Robert Reich
C
Ted Galen Carpenter
Danielle Pletka
C-
Kori Schake
D
Elliott Abrams
Pass
Dan Twining
Incomplete or None Given
Andrew Bacevich
David J. Kramer
David Rothkopf
Kenneth Roth
Philip Zelikow
We’re getting more trickling in, and we’ll be posting them on the blog, along with some of our favorite insightful foreign policy critiques.
What grade would you give Obama so far?
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