Quoted: Daniel Benjamin on Attacks and U.S. Foreign Policy

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“The president understood quite clearly when he came into office, and had it confirmed for him as events developed, that military action in the Middle East had limited returns. And I don’t think those lessons have changed,” says Daniel Benjamin, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, in a Wall Street Journal article about how the Paris attacks might affect President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.