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September 21, 2012

Collapse of the Cairo Doctrine

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

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In the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Obama’s foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations of the Bush years, a profound rapprochement with the Islamic world.

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TAGGED: Egypt, Arab Spring, Barack Obama

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