A year after his election, it appears that U.S. President Barack Obama has exhausted almost all the momentum that accompanied his arrival to the White House.
Was the award, in a way, an approval of Obama’s great move to remove and ease the stereotypical image of American enmity toward the Arab and Islamic worlds? Perhaps the answer is partially yes.
[Obama's officials] want to turn those baggy democratic pants into an elastic democracy they can stretch in all directions depending on their policy at the time, rather than on the terms of the current Iraqi constitution.