New president uses 'Obama-ism' in US foreign policy

WASHINGTON: In just 100 days, Obama has broken the American foreign policy mold.

He's turned the focus of the anti-terror war away from Iraq and toward Afghanistan, lifted decades-old restrictions on Cuban-Americans' visiting and sending money to their homeland, moved to reverse a slide in relations with Russia and reached out to tell Muslims worldwide that the US is not their enemy. He's declared repeatedly he knows the United States isn't immune to mistakes.

At a news conference in Trinidad and Tobago, he jokingly referred to his foreign policy as "Obama-ism" but in a more serious vein, he said that problems cannot be solved by just one country.