March 4, 2013

Obama's 2nd Term Foreign Policy Nightmare

Ralph Peters, New York Post

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Like Garbo, President Obama wants to be left alone.

The world annoys him. His personal interests and political agenda are domestic in focus: “An economy that works for everybody” (without everybody working for the economy, of course) is his dream. But foreign-policy crises will be his second-term nightmare.

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