President Barack Obama — who at West Point last Wednesday offered a recalibration of his foreign policy — has made no catastrophic missteps in his conduct of foreign policy over 1½ terms in office. (Yes, I know — Benghazi. Thank you.)
The Middle East peace process was mishandled, particularly during Obama's first term, but it's hard to blame Israeli-Palestinian dysfunction on any American president.
Syria may turn into a national-security calamity for the United States (it's already a moral calamity for the entire civilized world). But American troops are not dying, and Syrian chemical weapons aren't being used against American allies. American troops continue not to die in Iraq. American troops are exiting Afghanistan with, so far at least, limited consequence.
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