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TwilightGardener

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2. I've said it before and I'll say it again--once he stopped listening to neocons and
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 02:46 PM
Aug 2014

liberal interventionists so much, and giving more weight to his own instincts, he's been doing much better foreign-policy-wise (no more Libya's, let's hope). Not coincidentally, the Washington Post and every neocon nutcase in the media and in politics have been declaring him weak and a failure once he stopped listening to them, suddenly blaming him for everything that's going on in the world in the 18 months since people like Petraeus, Gates, and Clinton left the administration. This is not an accident. This is by design--they have to paint his foreign policy now as a failure. The neocons and interventionists have to whip up support for a neocon-oriented foreign policy Presidency after Obama.

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