The Obama Doctrine: Middle East out, Asia in (Richard Javad Heydarian, Al Jazeera)

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference," the 20th-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once famously wrote. Arguably, this very much sums up the United States President Barack Obama's foreign policy doctrine and his valuation of American priorities in various regions.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/03/obama-doctrine-middle-east-asia-160322101315077.html