The Atlantic magazine’s article on “The Obama Doctrine” has caused ripples all over the world, because of the frankness with which the US president discussed his foreign policy with Jeffrey Goldberg, the article’s author. In the UK, most of the headlines have concerned President Obama’s criticism of David Cameron, over Libya. But, in fact, the article is full of fascinating stuff on all sorts of subjects. Here are some of my selected highlights:1. The article will not make comforting reading for Saudi Arabia. As Goldberg notes, Obama is “clearly irritated that foreign policy orthodoxy compels him to treat Saudi Arabia as an ally”. White House officials apparently are in the habit of reminding visitors how many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic)雜志的一篇有關“奧巴馬主義”(The Obama Doctrine)的文章在全世界激起了波瀾，原因是這位美國總統與該文作者杰弗里?戈德堡(Jeffrey Goldberg)討論其外交政策時直言不諱。在英國，大多數頭條關注的都是奧巴馬總統就利比亞問題對英國首相戴維?卡梅倫(David Cameron)的批評。但是，事實上這篇文章充滿了有關各種問題的有趣內容。以下是我挑選出來的一些亮點：