Barack Is to George What Ike Was to Harry

That is, when considering foreign policy on the big threats, Islamism now, communism then.  The policy of the former president, while hotly criticized in the campaign, is basically retained by his successor. So Troy Senik of Ricochet says was Bush’s own prescient view, which has become Walter Russell Mead’s also.

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