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April 16, 2012

Obama's 'Give Me Space' Foreign Policy

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

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Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy in this election year might be best summed up by William F. Buckley’s famous promise: to “stand athwart history, yelling stop.” Wherever war rages, crisis looms, or a truculent strongman glowers, the message from the White House has been the same: “Give me space.”

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