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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Is Realism's Home on the Right?

John Allen Gay 

The National Interests - October 1, 2014

“Barely a month ago, there wasn’t even a plan” for dealing with the Islamic State, reports the Washington Post. President Obama had said in August that his administration didn’t “have a strategy yet.” With bombs now blasting the bearded beheaders’ bunkers, that strategy is still nowhere to be found—the Post catalogues an impressively diverse collection of tactics, yet no overarching theme. Micah Zenko has noted that the White House doesn’t even seem to agree with itself about what it is trying to do in Syria.  We’re being reminded, in other words, that Barack Obama is not a foreign-policy realist.

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