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    Obama at war and peace in the Middle East and Asia

    by Massimo Calabresi May 28, 2016 3 minutes
    Obama visits the Jade Emperor Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City on May 24, during a weeklong trip to Asia

    WHEN THE TALIBAN’S LEADER, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, crossed the border from Iran into Pakistan on May 21 in a beat-up white Toyota sedan, President Barack Obama was busy in Washington preparing for a weeklong trip to Vietnam and Japan. But the President had planned ahead. Days earlier he had preapproved a strike against Mansour, and by the time the Pentagon informed Obama the hit was imminent, he didn’t need to do anything: a drone strike incinerated Mansour, his companion and the Toyota. Hours later Obama was on Air Force One, wheels up for Hanoi.

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