TEMPLATE ANALYSIS

It is usual to refer to the leader of the most powerful country in the world as a lame duck as he approaches the last two years of his elected presidential term. That of course implies that he is simply form filling and entertaining heads of state. President Obama’s moves in the last two weeks are showing that this doesn’t have to be the case.
The much opposed CIA torture report which brought into the open what most people have claimed and suspected – namely that intelligence service broke all rules and gained nothing as a result, even the much heralded information leading to the assassination of Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with Rendition, Torture and Interrogation methods.
And last week came the highly unexpected announcement that there would be a change in the long-standing and very stupid dispute with Cuba, a small defenceless Caribbean island…