"Can Obama's record on foreign policy back up his ""hawkish"" reputation? ""Of course, it is not the president's sagacity that is in judgment. It is his honesty, his honesty to himself, surely, but also his honesty to us. Ajami published in the last issue of TNR an essay about a novel first published in Beirut four years ago, titled In Praise of Hatred and written by Khaled Khalifa. It is about today's bloodletting, yesterday's sectarian political program, eternal loathing. And, to be sure, Syria's ace-in-the-hole, its proximity to Israel, that it was the confrontation state. These insights laid out in a novel were not secrets. They were common knowledge. But Obama somehow believed that he could talk these truths out of their secure place in the world."" -Martin Peretz, ""Obama's 'Hawkish' Foreign Policy? If Only It Were So."" Photo courtesy of Business Insider"
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