http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/397720\/obama-does-have-strategy-victor-davis-hanson<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sigh. \u00a0Two more years.<\/p>\n
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Iran, Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, China, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Libya, Iraq, Cuba . . .<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Victor Davis Hanson, one of the brightest and most astute of current political commentators \u2014 perhaps it\u2019s his Stanford Ph.D. in classics, giving him\u00a0quite unusual historical depth \u2014 proposes an explanation for America\u2019s dangerously rudderless foreign policy: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/397720\/obama-does-have-strategy-victor-davis-hanson \u00a0 Sigh. \u00a0Two more years. \u00a0 Iran, Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, China, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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