Joel R. Charny, vice president for policy with Refugees International, weighs in, and while we don't endorse or share his views, we think it's interesting, so we're sharing it for information's sake!
The President has changed the tenor of the U.S. approach to the world, and this has humanitarian ramifications. Obama, joined by Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Defense Gates, has been stressing in multiple public settings the importance of development assistance, humanitarian aid, and diplomacy, in addition to military action, as tools for U.S. engagement and problem solving....Read more on the Alertnet website.
The change in message and tone, however, amounts to meaningless rhetoric without the resources to back it up.