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Obama’s Legacy

No president has ever been such a disaster for the Middle East

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

Mark Steyn, in After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, branded Barack Obama a ‘symptom rather than a problem’. Steyn compared Obama to HG Wells’s ‘insular myopic Eloi’ in The Time Machine; a decadent, overindulged caste, clueless about how the wider world of ‘dark, feral and subterranean’ Morlocks – or reality – works.

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