How Bush and Obama’s foreign policies are the same?

I forgot to mention this a few days ago, but I thought this was a particularly interesting analysis of general US foreign interest strategy.

Obama and the U.S. Strategy of Buying Time

He makes an interesting argument that the policies are not really all that different and are specifically American, they are just at different phases of the same set of steps/choices that we always go through – although Obama may be trying to backtrack to a previous step in some instances.