"But the President has paid dearly..."

[CJCRANE]

4. Many of the foreign policy gains from his first term

have been reversed and many of his unfulfilled promises seemingly put beyond reach.

Maybe that was the plan from the beginning.

However, I think it's more likely that the neocons were simply biding their time, rebuilding their strength and writing new scripts during that time, watching and waiting, ready to make their come back onto the world stage.

And now they're back, everything's going to sh*t again.