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In Syria, An Invitation for Disappointment

By Troy Senik
Thursday, August 29 2013

Nearly half a decade after he won the presidency, we can now look back on Barack Obama’s rise to power with perspective that wasn’t available at the time, when his status as a dashboard saint of American politics made it difficult to subject the soon-to-be chief executive to any critical scrutiny. As I’ve written in the past, successful presidential candidates often exploit contrasts with their predecessor’s shortcomings. One of the methods by which Obama did this was portraying his decision-making process as the very antithesis of the confident, go-with-your-gut style…

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