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\nBarack Obama Official Whitehouse Photograph<\/p>\n
\nBarack Obama Official Whitehouse Photograph<\/p>\n
COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n <\/em>Barack Obama claimed that the USA is “as well-positioned today as we have been in quite some time economically”:<\/p>\n December 30, 2014<\/p>\n “But, at the end of 2014, I could look back and say we are as well-positioned today as we have been in quite some time economically, that American leadership is more needed around the world than ever before and that is liberating in the sense that a lot of the work that we\u2019ve done is now beginning to bear fruit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd, it gives me an opportunity then to start focusing on some of the other hard challenges that I didn\u2019t always have the time or capacity to get to earlier in my presidency,\u201d Obama added.<\/p>\n ‘Long-term projects’<\/strong><\/p>\n He said he now wants to focus on \u201clong-term projects\u201d such as making sure all Americans benefit from an improving economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On the international front, \u201ceven as we\u2019re managing ISIL [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant] and trying to roll them back and ultimately defeat them, even as we\u2019ve been executing the draw-down in Afghanistan in a responsible way, the moves like the Cuba diplomatic initiative are ones that I want to make sure I continue to pursue partly because, frankly, it\u2019s easier for a president to do at the end of his term than a president coming in,\u201d Obama said. …<\/p>\n Obama also said, following costly conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, he wants to focus U.S. resources at home rebuilding schools, roads, basic science and research.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/president-obama-focused-on-long-term-projects-in-final-two-years\/2578672.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Thus far, the emergence of the Islamic State is partially a result of USA policies under the Obama Administration related to Iraq and Syria.\u00a0 The Taliban announced yesterday that it believes the ‘draw-down’ by the Obama Administration from Afghanistan is proof that the Taliban defeated the USA there (see Taliban claim victory over USA in Afghanistan<\/a>).<\/p>\n As far as economic strength goes, the day Barack Obama took office, the total US Federal Debt was as follows according to the US Treasury<\/a>:<\/p>\n\nPresident Barack Obama says, as he enters the final two years of his presidency and with the economy stronger at any time since taking office in 2009, he is able to focus on what he calls “long-term projects” in domestic and foreign affairs. …<\/div>\n\n\n\n