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January 22, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-concrete-goals-at-home-wishful-thinking-abroad/2013/01/21/4c8d3898-6408-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html

Obama's Wishful Thinking Abroad

(Washington Post) Editorial - In his second inaugural address, President Obama suggested a barrelful of wishful thinking when he pronounced: "A decade of war is now ending." That would come as news to the Afghan soldiers still dying at Taliban hands; to the families of more than 60,000 people killed in Syria in the past two years; to French soldiers who have taken on, in Mali, al-Qaeda affiliates who are as much enemies of the U.S. as of France; to the families of American hostages just slain in a terrorist attack in Algeria. America's adversaries are not in retreat; they will be watching Mr. Obama in his second term to see if the same can be said of the United States.

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