Is President Barack Obama s administration stumbling toward the abyss?

The Obama administration should have tried and should still try an alternative approach.

It is to be hoped that the Obama administration will adopt the opposite course.

A year ago, the Obama administration made major efforts to reach out to China.

That is the debate that the Obama administration is leading in the US today.

The Obama administration has been right not to appear too spooked by all of this.

The Obama administration considers both Iran and North Korea to be outside this category.

Some advisors within the Obama administration reaffirmed the intelligence conclusions, while other top advisers in the Obama administration say they no longer believe the key finding of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate.

Yet the Obama administration continues to deny that China is at the center of its strategy.

That is what the Obama administration is attempting to do right now.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to pursue its plans for European missile defense.

The Obama administration s fiscal stimulus has also significantly helped the economy.

The response, mounted by the Bush administration and taken over by the Obama administration, was all of the above.

The Obama administration committed itself to global leadership through civilian rather than military power.

In describing the New START Treaty, Obama administration officials stress the magnitude of the reductions.

Instead, Obama s administration is guided by a relativist political realism that assumes respect for cultural and religious distinctions.

Indeed, all Western governments, with the exception of the Obama administration, are committed to retrenchment and Obama cannot get a new stimulus package through Congress.

This is the approach still preferred by the Obama administration, despite its poor performance.

In principle, they do at least when asked. But, in practice, it is much less certain that they are ready to choose how to reduce it.

The Obama administration s approach to Turkey has been constructive.

Americans attitudes toward climate change have been transformed under the Obama administration.

President Barack Obama s administration and the US Federal Reserve gave priority to healing the private sector.

But President Barack Obama s administration has yet to decide which format it thinks best.

Unfortunately, neither the Obama administration nor the Fed seems willing to face these realities.

The Obama administration is promising to pick up losses to persuade hedge funds and other private investors to buy out banks bad assets.

In addition, Obama s administration has been conducting talks with the Philippines to increase and enhance naval cooperation.

(Remarkably, the Obama administration claims that veterans right to appeal to the courts should be restricted!)

As the Obama administration formulates policy towards Egypt and Yemen, it faces a dilemma.

China US talks on defense cooperation had earlier stalled because of such arms negotiations. They have since been restarted, an olive branch sent to the Obama administration by China s government.

PALO ALTO Barack Obama s administration suffered a string of fiscal setbacks this summer.

Barack Obama s administration would anoint the Fed, whose history has been to recognize crises late.

In its proposed reforms of the regulatory system, the Obama administration plans to give the Fed more of these powers.

Indeed, Hamas leaders recently acknowledged sending messages to the Obama administration calling for dialogue.

Indeed, the Obama administration s National Security Strategy mentions public private partnerships more than 30 times.

By holding out, Republicans wish to force President Barack Obama s administration into massive spending cuts.

The Obama administration, struggling to fulfill its own promises of change, should be more understanding of its Japanese counterpart.

This, more than anything else, explains the growing disconnect between Arab public opinion and the Obama administration.

But no such caution restrains US senators like South Carolina s Lindsey Graham, who says that the evil (of) a nuclear Iran will affect the US far more than (any) conflict. Following the hopeful early months of the Obama administration, this stop Iran policy has become America s focus.

In fact, many of the Kremlin s demands may well be beyond the Obama administration s capacity to deliver.

The new Obama administration and the Congress are still working out the structure of the fiscal stimulus for the US.

Given this analysis, however, Obama s Afghanistan oriented policy is doomed to failure.

To put it simply, President Barack Obama s administration has inherited the neoconservative philosophy of regime change in the Middle East.

The Obama administration therefore turned to fiscal policy tax cuts and a range of spending programs.

Indeed, the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing all they can to pump up US spending.

In an almost unbelievable volte face, for reasons that remain somewhat mysterious, Obama s administration itself shot down this approach.