It has been a tough week for President Obama and his foreign policy team. As Mark Landler and Jodi Rudoren of the New York Times report:
President Obama encountered setbacks to two of his most cherished foreign-policy projects on Thursday, as he failed to achieve a trade deal that undergirds his strategic pivot to Asia and the Middle East peace process suffered a potentially irreparable breakdown.
The Times is, however, sympathetic. The president, it seems, must deal with “outside forces [that] unravel his best-laid plans, from resetting relations with Russia to managing the epochal political change in the Arab world.”
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