“I would argue that the lesson of Obama’s tenure to date is not so much, “The policy isn’t working” as, “It’s even harder than you thought.”
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“If the Middle East is a physics problem, Obama fully recognized the inertia of the object, but exaggerated the force his lever could produce. Like Bush, Obama believed that there was something in himself — a very different something, to be sure — that would break the stalemates of years past,…”
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