Says the Associated Press's Steven Hurst concerning Obama's determination to "reset" U.S. relations with the world:
Obama's stark efforts to change the U.S. image abroad are reminiscent of the stunning realignments sought by former Soviet leader Michael Gorbachev. During his short—by Soviet standards—tenure, he scrambled incessantly to shed the ideological entanglements that were leading the communist empire toward ruin.
Before hailing Obama as the new Gorbachev, it is worth remembering that Gorby was a stunning failure as Soviet leaders go: he presided over the implosion of the very empire he sought to save without establishing a viable governing alternative. Do most Russians today celebrate the end of their nation as they knew it before 1991? It is an open question.
Lets hope that Obama's rush to shed the "ideological entanglements" that have characterized our own country's relations with the civilized world for many decades doesn't lead to such a fateful conclusion.
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