Obama was a foreign policy failure

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Thevery beginning of Barack Obama's presidency filled with both hope and trepidation: I admired Obama's eloquence and visible intelligence, and I shared some of his foreign-policy instincts, but I also expressed misgivings about his overly ambitious foreign-policy agenda.

Now, in his final week in office, it's only natural to take a look back and offer…