Obama’s dilemma and International Will

Recently his [Obama’s] words have lost a little of their ability to glamour the listener.
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Mr Obama is one of the few politicians who display their internal workings, and that has its charm.

But it is not only the Prince of Denmark’s soliloquies that are a reflection of indecision, that blunt actual action. Battling it out inside the president’s soul there are at least three instincts.