"Iran is not our Friend"

by Michael Sean Winters

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January 28, 2014

As I mentioned this morning, I do not hold out much hope that President Obama will use his speech tonight to re-dedicate our foreign policy to the promotion of human rights. This essay by Leon Wieseltier at The New Republic is the finest indictment of Obama's foreign policy I have seen.

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