President Obama, aside from the Af/Pak surge, has a strangely decent, pragmatic and limited so-called foreign-policy doctrine.
President Obama’s Strangely Pragmatic Doctrine
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Despite her poor record as national security advisor and secretary of state, Republicans are still all in for her.
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