A President's Report Card: Obama's First Year As President an Interview with Noam Chomsky (Interview‪)‬

You have remarked that you see little substantive difference between the Bush administration's and the Obama administration's foreign policies. How are Obama's policies similar to, or different from, the Bush administration policies? Well, to be precise, I think there are significant differences between the first and the second Bush terms. And I think Obama's policies are fairly continuous with Bush's second term. In the first Bush term, the administration simply went off the spectrum. US foreign policy has a very narrow spectrum, but the Bush administration departed from it. In fact, they were quite harshly criticized right within the mainstream for doing extreme harm to major US interests. During the first term, the image of the United States in the world sank to probably the lowest point in history. Everything they touched turned into disaster, from the point of view of the interests that they represent.