List of Barack Obama articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Carter Nomination Sets Up Senate Critique of Obama Policies
Carter must deal with White House micromanagement and a messy Middle East strategy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Will Ash Carter Accomplish?
A word to the wise: pay attention to the new defense secretary.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Ash Carter Could Improve the Strategic Debate in Washington
He has a reputation for not suffering fools -- and that could be a very good thing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ash Carter vs. Barack Obama’s Yogi Berra Foreign Policy
Why an excellent choice for SecDef is likely to see his tenure, like his predecessors’, end in tears.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Going Medieval
Ash Carter once wanted to bomb North Korea, but a look at the former history student’s record suggests he’d be far more cautious about Iran and the Islamic State if he took the helm at the Pentagon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Memo to Obama: Handing Embassy Jobs to Big Donors Can Be Dangerous
From the former ambassador to Jamaica who called the island country's citizens "idiots" and "children" to the Singapore ambassador who didn't know there were two different Koreas, the spoils system has produced some doozies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Assad: Airstrikes Aren’t Helping Me; Hollande, You’re as Popular as ISIS.
In a new interview, Bashar al-Assad openly floats the idea of a military alliance with the United States against ISIS.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Not a (Totally) Poisoned Chalice
Some “presidential” suggestions for Ash Carter on taking the Pentagon’s top job.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After Missteps, White House Likely to Tap Ash Carter as Next Pentagon Chief
The administration fired Chuck Hagel without having a replacement lined up, but Obama seems to have found the man he wants to run the Pentagon next.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stuck in the Shadows at the Pentagon
Chuck Hagel was always being upstaged by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The next secretary of defense will have to change that equation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why America Is to Blame for Mexico’s Carnage and Corruption
The crisis over 43 massacred students shows how dysfunctional and corrupt Peña Nieto's government is. And yet Obama keeps patting him on the back.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Doormat Gets Shown the Door
Chuck Hagel wasn't a genius. But he got a bum rap for being exactly the secretary of defense that Obama wanted -- until he wasn't.
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