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A friend as troubled as I am at President Obama's mounting misadventures in foreign and security policy said, "I hope he knows what he's doing."� I hope he doesn't.

I hope he doesn't because I prefer the alternative explanation: that he has spent nearly a year getting it wrong out of inexperience, naivety, the distraction of an aggressive domestic agenda and an inflated sense that he can charm our adversaries into submission. If this is how we are to understand the President's Plan A"”ill-conceived approaches toward the Middle East, the Americas, our European allies, nuclear proliferation and strategy, Iran, Russia and human rights"”there is some hope that eventually reality will intrude and he will move to a very different Plan B.

After all, even Jimmy...