There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama�s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none.

Nor does improvement hinge on Obama�s past career in Chicago politics or his U.S. Senate tenure � the former was problematic at best, the latter cursory.

Instead, our great expectations derive from four rosy, but heretofore unquestioned assumptions:

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