But over the next three years, as the Arab Spring gave up its early promise, and brutality and dysfunction overwhelmed the Middle East, the president grew disillusioned.
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The unraveling of the Arab Spring darkened the president’s view of what the U.S. could achieve in the Middle East, and made him realize how much the chaos there was distracting from other priorities.
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But what sealed Obama’s fatalistic view was the failure of his administration’s intervention in Libya, in 2011.
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The unraveling of the Arab Spring darkened the president’s view of what the U.S. could achieve in the Middle East, and made him realize how much the chaos there was distracting from other priorities.
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But what sealed Obama’s fatalistic view was the failure of his administration’s intervention in Libya, in 2011.
