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‘Reign of Terror’ with Spencer Ackerman

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Obama Loves Subtlety With Bureaucratic Rigorousness

Soy: Obama was a pretty profound anti war candidate. He gave a speech that you discuss early in his presidency where he said that perpetual war would prove self defeating and alter our country in troubling ways. You respond to that by saying, a great tragedy of the obama presidency is that this insight not guide his actions. Why did Obamas not follow through on what i believe were a kind of deeply held commitments? Soy: In parts of the book, you question that o bama isn't the omnibus anti war figure that i think people both hoped he was or feared he was.

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