Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Policy
Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack
Obama has a split personality when it comes to foreign policy. So do
most U.S. presidents, of course, and the ideas that inspire this one
have a long history at the core of the American political tradition. In
the past, such ideas have served the country well. But the conflicting
impulses influencing how this young leader thinks about the world
threaten to tear his presidency apart -- and, in the worst scenario, turn
him into a new Jimmy Carter.
Obama's long deliberation over the war in
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