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The authors discuss the foreign policies of the U.S. president Barack Obama as of January 2014, criticizing his leadership and arguing that policies involving a military withdrawal from Iraq, a nuclear development program in Iran, and chemical weapons in Syria may not succeed.

In this article the authors discuss uncertainty about U.S. president Barack Obama's foreign policies. Topics include a U.S. foreign policy speech given by Obama at a 2013 meeting of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, confusion among U.S. allies and enemies about U.S. intentions, doubts about U.S. leadership in the Middle East, and Obama's refusal to get involved in Middle East revolts in 2011, called the Arab Spring Uprisings.