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From Elliott Abrams
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.'
Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.
There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.
While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
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