The "Consequentialist"

Ryan Lizza, one of my favorite political writers, has an expose in the New Yorker on Obama's foreign policy in light of the recent "Arab Awakening." It really draws out the friction between the realist and idealist factions in Obama's administration (and in Obama's own mind) and on Obama's somewhat strained and haphazard handling of Mubarek and Tunisia and Lybia.

Oh yeah - and this is the article where, the much decried on the right, "leading from behind" comes from.