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Clinton and senior women helped convince Obama to intervene in Libya

Jorge Benitez | March 19, 2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, September 22, 2009.

From Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers, the New York Times:  In a Paris hotel room on Monday night, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East.

The Global War on Terror Now Just A Global War on Terror

Bernard Finel | August 07, 2009
John Brennan Photo

John Brennan, President Obama’s senior advisor on terrorism, gave a speech yesterday that was supposed to signal something of a new approach to the challenge. But in proclaiming that al Qaeda "remains the most serious terrorist threat we face as a nation" and "the most immediate and extreme threat to global security the possibility that terrorists will obtain and use a nuclear weapon," he reflected a consensus that predates 9/11. 

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