How Obama Lost the Mideast to Putin

STRATEGIC SNAFU

Vision, strategy, and courage might have prevented the disaster we see today in Syria. But those elements were nowhere to be found.

Published Feb. 23 2016 12:01AM EST

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LONDON — The Middle East is in flames. Just as Iraq was President George W. Bush’s catastrophic legacy, Syria will be Obama’s. Bush’s sins of commission wrought no less chaos than Obama’s sins of omission.

Maajid Nawaz

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How Obama Lost the Mideast to Putin

Vision, strategy, and courage might have prevented the disaster we see today in Syria. But those elements were nowhere to be found.

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Maajid Nawaz

How Obama Lost the Mideast to Putin

Vision, strategy, and courage might have prevented the disaster we see today in Syria. But those elements were nowhere to be found.

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Maajid Nawaz