For all the praise for Obama’s “cool rationality,” there isn’t a less-informed or grounded basis for foreign policy than “if only.”
SHADI HAMID: Obama and the Limits of ‘Fact-Based’ Foreign Policy. “How America’s best and brightest once again steered the country to failure.” There’s a lot wrong with this article, but a couple gems, too. The problem, well before negotiations even started, was …