Obama, then, has stocked up on advisers with what might be termed a 'metrosexual' foreign policy: an instinctive aversion to muscular use of American power, a forward foreign policy and the unilateral use of force.

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Similarly, the Saudis have rejected the use of oil exports to America as a lever to force policy changes.

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Europeans hope that he will prove less ready than George W. Bush to use America's vast military force as an instrument of foreign policy.

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