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Instead of fighting to defeat Al Qaeda, he was working to defeat Bush's policies.
Al Qaeda was not viewed as a cunning opponent following a larger plan, but a blow-back, an unintended consequence of the bad foreign policy and unthinking imperialism of his predecessors. Like most critics of American foreign policy, Obama found it difficult to take Al Qaeda seriously on its own terms. Instead he viewed Al Qaeda as extremists who could only be defeated by isolating them with a more understanding foreign policy that would address Muslim grievances and empower political Islam.
By Epictetus
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