The president’s rhetoric last week was calculated to reassure and soothe. The promises he made in 2008, when he campaigned as a critic of wartime overreach, were revived, reasserted, amplified. He would push anew to close Gitmo ... phase out indefinite detention ... put limits on drone strikes ... safeguard a free press ... even wind down the war on terror. But of course the year is no longer 2008, and Obama has been “the decider” for more than four years now.
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