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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Obama -- Dealing with the World the Way it is

It’s Not Just About Obama (Thomas Friedman) from the New York Times    
Friedman gets a two-fer today.
"Is American foreign policy today the way it is because Obama is the way he is (cerebral, cautious, dispassionate) or is Obama the way Obama is on foreign policy because America is the way America is today (burned by two failed wars and weakened by a great recession) and because the world is the way the world is (increasingly full of failed states and enfeebled U.S. allies)?  The answer is some of both, but I’d put a lot more emphasis on the latter."

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