(Paul Mirengoff) At the beginning of his first term, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton announced a foreign policy "pivot" to Asia. Unfortunately, events refused to pivot with Obama and Clinton. Like the oceans that declined to recede, the big events stubbornly remained were they were — in the Middle East, as every intelligent analyst expected they would. Civil war in Syria, the rise of ISIS, Iran's quest for nuclear weapons
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