{"id":652897,"date":"2017-01-22T04:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/01\/22\/obamas-mixed-human-rights-legacy\/"},"modified":"2017-01-22T04:37:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:37:25","slug":"obamas-mixed-human-rights-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/01\/22\/obamas-mixed-human-rights-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s mixed human rights legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former US President Barack Obama has left a \u201cshaky\u201d human rights legacy of indecisive policies,<\/strong> Kenneth Roth argues for Foreign Policy<\/a>. The Obama administration, he suggests, was not firm enough in its actions (or reactions) to create a lasting impact, leaving many in fear that the Donald Trump administration could easily reverse any progress Obama may have achieved, particularly in the human rights domain. \u201cObama never really warmed to human rights as a genuine priority and so leaves office with many opportunities lost,\u201d Roth writes. Roth surveys Obama\u2019s achievements and shortcomings a number of issues and says, on Middle East policy specifically, Obama rarely lived up to the lofty promise of his <\/strong>2009 Cairo University speech<\/strong><\/a>, where he spoke eloquently of the need to build democracies in the region. He cites Obama\u2019s failure to make any meaningful push on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, continued use of drone strikes, maintaining Guantanamo Bay and not backing up his \u201cred line\u201d in Syria as examples of this shaky record. Him overseeing the largest surveillance state in US history was also seen as diverging from his human rights commitment. \u201cThe truth is, a careful review of Obama\u2019s major human rights decisions shows a mixed record\u2026 he has often treated human rights as a secondary interest \u2014 nice to support when the cost was not too high, but nothing like a top priority he championed,\u201d the article reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former US President Barack Obama has left a \u201cshaky\u201d human rights legacy of indecisive policies, Kenneth Roth argues for Foreign Policy. The Obama administration, he suggests, was not firm enough in its actions (or reactions) to create a lasting impact, leaving many in fear that the Donald Trump administration could easily reverse any progress Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9003],"tags":[72,2397],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-652897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worth-reading","tag-enterpriseam","tag-worth-reading","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f71c8be6-9c49-4d7f-8599-106e1efc3db1","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[652873],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nObama\u2019s mixed human rights legacy - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/01\/22\/obamas-mixed-human-rights-legacy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama\u2019s mixed human rights legacy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former US President Barack Obama has left a \u201cshaky\u201d human rights legacy of indecisive policies, Kenneth Roth argues for Foreign Policy. 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