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There’s been a lot of criticism of Obama’s Afghanistan drawdown plan, from those who say it’s not enough to those who complain he’s bringing too many soldiers back too fast.

I think this means that he got it just right.

For weeks he has been dogged by a comment from an aide, reported in The New Yorker, that he was “leading from behind.” With the administration’s slow response to the Arab Spring, and by stepping back from a lead role in the Libya bombings, it looked like caution was the hallmark of the Obama “doctrine.”

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