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A late education is better than no education at all, even for a president of the United States. The man who is a mighty legend in his own mind is even showing a little humility. Barack Obama, who usually finds someone else — usually George W. — to blame for every little thing that goes awry, finally admitted this week in Israel that even a synthetic messiah can make mistakes.
A former State Department adviser calls President Obama a "dithering" chief executive with control issues that jeopardize America's foreign affairs policy, in a new book that makes the case the current administration has damaged U.S. interests in the Middle East.
A former senior adviser in the Obama administration says that "ravenous" political faction-fighting between aides to the president and those around then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Obama's presidential-primary rival in 2008, hobbled U.S. policymaking in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Iran's foreign minister on Sunday welcomed the willingness of the United States to hold direct talks with Tehran in the standoff over its nuclear program but didn't commit to accepting the offer — insisting that Washington must show "fair and real" intentions to resolve the issue and complaining about "threatening rhetoric."
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Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years are increasing worries in Washington that the disaster will undermine the South Asian nation's political stability and jeopardize U.S. gains across the border in Afghanistan.
On Afghanistan, for example, he says Obama policymakers were determined not to make long-reaching strategic decisions but to satisfy shifting public opinion.
He was busybodying the national security apparatus by asking for more answers to the same set of questions, each time posed differently,” writes Mr. Nasr of the months-long review.
Insider's book: Obama is 'dithering,' vindictive and controlling president →
