Obama Foreign Policy Success or Failure

I could subtitle this post "Drezner vs. Walt".  Drezner the avowed liberal (on both accounts of how we IR people use the terms, Drezner is both a domestic political liberal and liberal theory advocate in IR) and Walt (who is less deliberate in identifying his domestic political leaning but is an advocate of realism in IR) have both recently posted on Foreign Policy (foreignpolicy.com) regarding the success or failure of Obama's foreign policy.  Drezner and Walt both agree that domestic constraints have limited what Obama is free to do in the foreign policy arena, but they disagree on the good or bad of the outcomes.  You can read Drezner's post here (it is the one dated Oct. 21).  You can read Walt's post here.

Personally, I lean toward Walt on this one.  I am a weak realist in IR, prefer to look at things constructively, and definitely do not agree with much of Obama's foreign policy decisions (for that matter, I did not agree with much of Bush's foreign policy either) and I am quite sure the combination of Bush's spending and Obama's desire to make the country a socialist haven are both quite egregious domestic plans.  Some days being a libertarian is a great joy.