I think you can say Obama's policies in the region were expected or maybe determined by the past or that the form of the State he entered worked better at changing him than he did at changing it on the front in question. Prudent is a hard sell. Waffling, or compromising to the point of a well meaning betrayal of his Cairo speech would be better here. He took control of a hammer. He found nails. By nails I mean dead middle eastern civilians. A fair few stamped Made in America. Tough job no doubt but....
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