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Washington, D.C.—The moment many foreign policy observers consider one of the worst of Barack Obama’s presidency—not bombing Syria in the summer of 2013 after Bashar al-Assad had breached the “red line” on chemical weapons—the president sees as one of his best.

But I betcha Goldberg did not interview any Europeans, or the refugees flooding their countries from the fallout war in Syria before he awarded the president his personal gold star of approval...

Through many hours of in-depth and unusually candid interviews, The Atlantic offers an exclusive and historic account of President Obama’s worldview, in which the president offers extensive explanations of his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.

The Atlantic’s April cover story, “The Obama Doctrine,” is up now at TheAtlantic.com and will be on sale newsstands next week.

National Correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed President Obama in the White House, aboard Air Force One, and in Malaysia, and spoke to many of his current and former top national-security and foreign-policy advisors for this cover story.

Across 19 pages—the longest article The Atlantic has published in more than a decade—Goldberg details Obama’s deliberations on the most important international moments of recent history: from not enforcing the “red line” in Syria—which Obama calls “as tough a decision as I’ve made and I believe ultimately it was the right decision to make”—to the nuclear deal with Iran, to the threat of ISIS, to the “shit show” of Libya*, to Russia and Ukraine.

I know Jeffrey Goldberg, and the Atlantic, think that this fawning story about the Obama Doctrine is positive.  But for independent thinkers, it just shows why we cannot afford to put another candidate like this in the White House for a long, long time.

The cover is part of a multimedia report at TheAtlantic.com, including videos, interactives, and additional commentary and analysis by a panel of foreign-policy experts that will roll out across the next week.

One video provides a narrative account of Obama’s “red line” decisions on Syria; in a second, Goldberg and Bennet dive deeper into the piece and Goldberg’s reporting.

Bennet and Goldberg will talk about “The Obama Doctrine” at Sixth & I on March 30 in Washington, D.C. Event tickets are on sale now. Media credentials are available.

I hope the media continues to self promote their cross-media platforms with this angle:  that President Obama is doing a good job as World President, has surrounded himself with capable people who are turning in positive results, and the rest of us voters are just too dumb to acknowledge it.

Quietly, we gain strength, even as the country continues to lose...

Yes, there will be answer...  Let it be.

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*On the unfixability of the Middle East:

Goldberg reports that the mess of Libya proved to Obama that the Middle East was best avoided. “There is no way we should commit to governing the Middle East and North Africa,” he recently told a former colleague from the Senate. “That would be a basic, fundamental mistake.”

“Right now, I don't think anybody can be feeling good about the situation in the Middle East. You have countries that are failing to provide prosperity and opportunity for their people. You've got a violent, extremist ideology, or ideologies, that are turbocharged through social media. You've got countries that have very few civic traditions, so that as autocratic regimes start fraying, the only organizing principles are sectarian.”—President Obama

“ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States. Climate change is a potential existential threat to the entire world if we don’t do something about it.”—President Obama

Oy!  If he was a smart lame duck, he'd stop quacking and just head south to take in the ballgames already...

Look at the South Side of Chicago, and the results today of his community organizing work there.  Under Rahm, Obama is afraid to speak out, it seems.  Those children being drawn into alleys to take a bullet in the head?  You wonder why he doesn't understand that his son would look an awful lot like those little boys...

Where are his priorities, flying around the world rallying against our collective carbon footprints? 

Does he really think history will judge him as kindly as today's Washington media, when he's clearly not taking responsibility and trying to blame others for his presidency?

On Europe’s responsibility for the “shit show” of Libya:

Obama blames Great Britain and France, in part, for losing Libya (which he refers to privately as the “shit show”). “When I go back and I ask myself what went wrong, there’s room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya’s proximity, being invested in the follow-up.”—President Obama

Make it a great weekend, and happy St. Patrick's Day!
We'll be offline for some time here, getting tasks accomplished now that the weather has turned and we're planning for the seasons to come...

See you come Spring!