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The saddest piece of Barack Obama’s legacy - The Washington Post
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The Obama legacy in foreign policy
04/18/2016
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The saddest piece of Barack Obama’s legacy - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/2016
The failure to protect the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya
08/25/2011
A series of failures and misleading statements by the Obama administration on the burning of the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by terrorists, and the death of diplomats.
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Washington Post 05/09/2013
Diplomat Airs Benghazi Attack Details
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
Benghazi E-Mails Put White House on the Defensive
New York Times 05/10/2013
New York Times 05/13/2013
What we’ve learned in Libya - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/25/2011
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2013
The Obama administration's slow response to the democracy movement in Libya
03/01/2011
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Diplomat Airs Benghazi Attack Details
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
Wall Street Journal 06/05/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/01/2013
Rice Offers a More Modest Strategy for Mideast
New York Times 10/26/2013
Leaving U.S. Allies Adrift as Chaos Rises
Wall Street Journal 08/01/2014
The Too Little, Too Late Presidency
Wall Street Journal 02/18/2015
Christopher Stevens and Mehdi Zeyo- their role in the struggle for freedom and democracy in Libya and America's finest hour
02/28/2011
The role of Stevens in the struggle for freedom in Libya and the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and the role of Mehdi Zeyo in liberating Benghazi.
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Washington Post 05/09/2013
Diplomat Airs Benghazi Attack Details
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
New York Times 05/13/2013
New York Times 12/30/2013
An American Ambassador Who Plunged Into Arab Life
New York Times 09/15/2012
Hillary Clinton Defends Actions in Benghazi
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2015
The Obama presidency and the earlier decisions for Iraq and Syria as seen in September 2014 and May 2015
09/20/2014
In early 2014 op-ed pages of the NYT and WSJ are used by Hillary Clinton and General Jones, former Secretary of State and former National Security Advisor, calling into question Obama's failure to act decisively in Syria and Iraq. By September 2014 the policy appears to be unraveling. Hardly any reporters or critics mention that all the Syrian democracy forces needed was the "no fly zone" offered to Libya. Timely decisive use of American airpower early in the conflict would have enabled the success of the democracy forces in Syria. General Keene called for this in an op-ed on 5/22/2013 and the WSJ editorial on 8/29/2013 refuted claims that this would cost $1 billion. Actually Gen. Keane stated that all that was necessary was to destroy the 50 runways and the air defense system of the Assad regime, which the U.S. had capabilities for even with the Russian support to Assad. It also would have met the early misguided efforts of the Putin government to exert influence in regions against the will of the people in the name of Russian nationalism, which extended following Syria to Eastern Europe. It would have kept U.S. ground forces out and gradually stabilized the region with democratic governments in Syria and Libya- with U.S. economic support and guidance during a transition period. Truman was coming out of the Second World War when he faced and responded to the efforts to extend communist regimes in Greece and southern Europe within a few years of the global conflict. Truman and General Marshall accomplished in Europe what Obama failed to do in North Africa when a challenge as well as an opportunity presented itself. Truman also listened to exceptional leaders in his circle of advisors. The U.S. has strategic interests in the Middle East and concern for the welfare of the region and its people. This was neglected in preference for involvement in Afghanistan, where involvement is only for the purpose of keeping a failing state from becoming a haven for terrorism. A permanent settlement between India and Pakistan c
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Wall Street Journal 09/20/2014
New York Times 02/07/2015
U.S. to Give Some Syria Rebels Ability to Call Airstrikes
Wall Street Journal 02/18/2015
The Too Little, Too Late Presidency
Wall Street Journal 02/18/2015
Gen. Martin Dempsey Leaves a Legacy of Caution
Wall Street Journal 05/06/2015
First Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails Captures Concerns Over Libya
New York Times 05/21/2015
The consensus in the Obama administration to support Syria's democracy forces in summer 2011, and the U.S. president's failure to act
08/23/2011
Defense Secretary describes the plans supported by key members of the National Security team to support Syrian democracy forces in the summer of 2011- supported by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Clinton, General Dempsey of the Joint Chiefs, and CIA director Petraeus. The president failed to act because of approaching elections and the general hesitation to act that was displayed since the start of the democracy movement in Tunisia, and then through the movement's spread to Egypt, Libya, followed by Syria. The U.S. failed to grasp an opportunity for the Free World and create goodwill in the Arab world by standing up to its ideals of democracy and freedom.
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Israel Says Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
New York Times 04/23/2013
New York Times 04/22/2013
Pentagon Plans for the Worst in Syria
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2013
What if the U.S. doesn’t intervene in Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
Why did Mr. Obama overrule his advisers on Syria? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
New York Times 05/05/2013
Calls for President Obama to act decisively in Libya.
03/05/2011
The March 7, 2011 Wall Street Journal editorial calls for military action in Libya to prevent the Ghadafi regime from suppressing the democracy protests inside Libya. Other calls for action from Senators McConnell, McCain, and Kerry over the weekend March 5-6. The slow and hesitant response of the Obama administration.
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Wall Street Journal 09/01/2013
Leaving U.S. Allies Adrift as Chaos Rises
Wall Street Journal 08/01/2014
Turkish Inaction on ISIS Advance Dismays the U.S.
New York Times 10/07/2014
The saddest piece of Barack Obama’s legacy - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/2016
Wall Street Journal 03/06/2011
Wall Street Journal 03/09/2011
The WSJ on the withdrawal of the European governments from the Middle East and North Africa, the Obama administration's similar policies, and the refugee crisis in Europe
09/08/2015
What happens in North Africa, does not necessarily remain there, says this WSJ editorial, even if European governments and the Obama administration would prefer it to be that way. The withdrawal from the Middle East and North Africa under Hollande, Merkel and Obama, says the Journal, has led to the situation where the entire region is unravelling and being torn apart, leading to millions of refugees in first Turkey and Jordan, and now in Europe. True it says there are risks in intervening, but points to the Iraq where normalcy of life was returning to Baghdad by the end of the Bush administration, and the unraveling beginning only with Hollande (the departure of Sarkozy leaving Cameron alone), and the Obama administration's withdrawal from the Middle East (no action in Libya and Syria, and withdrawal in Iraq), Germany's traditional non-interventional role.
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Wall Street Journal 09/08/2015
How we got to the Syria mess - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/02/2015
More waffling on Syria - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/02/2015
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2015
Merkel Links Turkey’s E.U. Hopes to Stemming Flow of Refugees
New York Times 10/18/2015
British Jets Hit ISIS in Syria After Parliament Authorizes Airstrikes
New York Times 12/02/2015
Unprecedented and enormous refugee crisis from the events in North Africa and the Middle East
06/18/2015
The wars in Syria, Iraq and Libya are leading to an enormous surge in displaced people within their own countries unprecedented in the last 50 years.
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60 Million People Fleeing Chaotic Lands, U.N. Says
New York Times 06/18/2015
U.N. Quantifies the Suffering in an Iraq Divided and Under Attack
New York Times 01/19/2016
The saddest piece of Barack Obama’s legacy - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/2016
Opinion: 'Marshall Plan with Africa' creates enormous expectations | Germany | DW.COM | 18.01.2017
DW.COM 01/18/2017
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