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Obama’s Uncertain Path Amid Syria Bloodshed
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/world/middleeast/obamas-uncertain-path-amid-syria-bloodshed.html?_r=0

A close examination of how the Obama administration finds itself at this point — based on interviews with dozens of current and former members of the administration, foreign diplomats and Congressional officials — starts with a deeply ambivalent president who has presided over a far more contentious debate among his advisers than previously known. Those advisers reflected Mr. Obama’s own conflicting impulses on how to respond to the forces unleashed by the Arab Spring: whether to side with (...)

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Mr. Obama expressed thanks for everyone’s comments and said he wanted to think about it. One former White House official at the meeting said it was clear from Mr. Obama’s body language that he was not convinced. “They could have tweaked this thing till kingdom come, it wouldn’t have made any difference,” the official said. “He just didn’t think it was a good idea, period.”