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n in that pre- industrial, tribal society. Obama's policy toward Iran, despite an encouraging initial effort to establish a meaningful dialogue with Tehran, has resumed the same counterproductive, confrontational path of his predecessors. Tensions with Pakistan have risen sharply, as have tensions in

The first president to inherit a shooting war in 40 years, Obama actually inherited two: He has been a wartime president from the get-go, and, like Woodrow Wilson, is the only other sitting American president with a war and a Nobel Peace Prize, however unearned. One reason the Republicans now have such a hard

Iran would, from the opening days of an Iraq governed by NI., be confronted by a coun=ry on its border led by Sunnis bent on the destruction of the Tehran gover=ment. An all-out religious war—this time between nations—might well be=considered inevitable by the Shiites in Iran. In other words, Ira= ha

ermined, as has American moral leadership. The associat=on of the United States with the cause of human rights and democracy, going back at least to Woodrow Wilson, has =een weakened by its unwillingness to act in the Syrian case. America's sof= power is linked to its reputation for idealism and the defense of

in Iran in any case. But his strategy — striking a diplomatic bargain to stop the nuclear program — also narrows his options in Syria. A deal with Tehran will require the support of Russia, which happens to be hosting the next round of negotiations. Russia, in turn, is opposed to forcing Assad, a lon

n, who first popularized the notion that the President "is the direct representative of the American people," and it was later institutionalized by Woodrow Wilson, who explicitly wanted the American government to be like the more responsive parliamentary system of the United Kingdom. Like Jackson, he argued