What Is the Obama Doctrine and How Does It Relate to Our Founders' Vision?

What Is the Obama Doctrine and How Does It Relate to Our Founders' Vision?:

Now a year and a half into the Obama administration, the Obama Doctrine of diplomatic and military strategy is becoming clear. President Obama’s speech at West Point last month outlined the main elements of the Obama Doctrine: greater reliance on international institutions; substituting soft power for hard power; and a more subdued and less self-reliant America. To further delineate their views, Vice President Biden told the European Parliament in Brussels that the European Union has a legitimate claim to the title of “capital of the free world,” a claim that reveals his true feelings towards the socialist union of states. This doctrine was not the vision of our Founders."