The three best tests of how conservative the new administration will be are Iran, Russia and the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock
Obama's new foreign policy trio hardly live up to his promise of change. His team is more conservative by reputation than many Democrats wanted and is full of familiar faces.
In picking Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, in keeping Robert Gates as secretary of defense, and in supporting them with General James Jones as national security adviser, Mr Obama has picked a line-up of big names whose known positions appear much closer to those of the Bush administration than many Obama followers hoped.
Those who wanted an overt and dramatic rejection of Bush policy are furious.
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