奥巴马担任总统该期间，高级官员被边缘化，外交政策主要由缺乏经验的总统和比他更加缺乏经验的年轻白宫助手们制定。
During Barack Obama’s presidency, senior officials were marginalized, and foreign policy was generally determined by an inexperienced president and his even less experienced young White House acolytes.