Fate did not deal Obama an easy hand. Taking office in January 2009, the new president faced a country mired in two wars (one from which it struggled to exit, and one it seemed unable to win); an ongoing terrorist threat, ominously accompanied by a standstill in all efforts to reduce nuclear proliferation; a low point in US-Russian relations; and, more generally, a worldview of the US as a go-it-alone actor with whom it was hard to make a deal.
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