the victory . a different viewpoint .

Every victory should be viewed from other viewpoints .  Obama's too.

The assumption that Obama is relatively better than Romney is of course very hard to sell to Iranians, Afghans, Palestinians, or Pakistanis, who are in one way or another suffering the consequences of his deadly decisions.  

 Why would a US President be so servile to an Israeli Prime Minister? 

True that as a garrison colonial settlement, Israel is the largest and most expansive aircraft carrier of the US in the region - but shouldn't the US Commander-in-Chief be in control of that carrier rather than the other way around? What sort of self-respect would an American citizen have of his citizenship in this country that a tiny colonial settlement half way around the globe can turn its congress into a toy shop full of Jack-In-The-Boxes?

The political triumph and the moral defeat of Obama are at once the conclusion of a chapter and the commencement of a liberating horizon on world politics. The fate of American politics, as we have seen it performed, is now forever sealed between a George W Bush and a Barack Hussein Obama - a clinically deranged warmonger and a soft spoken imperialist with a secret "Kill List", a squadron of deadly drones, and a legalese argument to criminalise dissent, all to enable him to do as he wishes.  

Inside Story Americas - How effective are  US drone strikes?

After the elated expectations and the nosedive disappointment of Obama's presidency, in the first term, now to be repeated in the second, it is now more than ever clear that this country has nothing to offer the rest of the world - now that from one corner to another it is rising for democratic rights - and it would be utterly catastrophic if the US political party system were to export its brand of "democracy" to the newly liberated Arab states or anywhere else in the world. 

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/11/201211785348348393.html