NYT: Rebutting Critics, Obama Seeks Higher Bar for Military Action

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1. Obama finally has cast off most of the neocon dead-enders in his administration.

Bob Gates, gone. Hillary Clinton, gone. Leon Panetta, gone. David Petraeus, gone. So the critics are losing their shit because they believe the only way to conduct American foreign policy is to threaten military action everywhere, whether vital to our interests or not, and overthrow regimes who are too weak to fight back.