Obama Thinks His Syria Strategy is Right -- And Folks Just Don’t Get It by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post

… Throughout the nine-day trip, which had begun less than 24 hours after the terrorist attacks in Paris, he had listened to critics at home and abroad charge that he had no coherent game plan. Some had even suggested that France, with tough talk and a series of retaliatory air strikes, was now leading the anti-terrorism fight.

The message they had received on the road was “jarring,” said a senior administration official who was on the flight. The problem wasn’t the strategy, they agreed. That “was clear to all of us, sitting in the Sit[uation] Room, in briefings every day. We all know what we are doing.”

What they needed was to do a better job of explaining it. Obama ordered what the official called an “uptick in our communications tempo.”…

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