Geopolitical "change"?

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http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090824_obamas_foreign_policy_end_beginning/?utm_source=Snapshot&utm_campaign=none&utm_medium=email

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090209_munich_continuity_between_bush_and_obama_foreign_policies

Especially in foreign policy, the more things "change", the more things stay the same.

As we have mentioned before, the single most remarkable thing about Obama’s foreign policy is how consistent it is with the policies of former President George W. Bush. Still, it is worth pausing to note how little Obama has deviated from the Bush foreign policy.

First, instead of ordering an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, he adopted the Bush administration’s policy of a staged withdrawal keyed to political stabilization and the development of Iraqi security forces. While he tweaked the timeline on the withdrawal, the basic strategy remained intact. Indeed, he retained Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, to oversee the withdrawal. Second, he increased the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Read the whole article. It's chock full of Bush policies that Obama has continued.