The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House There would be more war, more conflict, and more suffering, until-someday-old men would make peace.” History had opened up a doorway in 2011 that, by the middle of 2013, had been slammed shut. Obama had reached that conclusion before I had. Meanwhile, innocent people were going to suffer, some of them were going to be killed, and there didn’t seem to be anything I could do about it. A Likud prime minister was going to mouth words about peace while building settlements that made peace impossible. The Saudis and Emiratis were going to stamp out political dissent in Egypt before it could come to their kingdoms. Factions were going to fight it out in the streets of Libya. Bashar al-Assad was going to fight to the death, backed by his Russian and Iranian sponsors. Reactionary forces-with deep reservoirs of political support in the United States-were intent on clinging to power. Extremist forces were exploiting the Arab Spring.
There was no Nelson Mandela who could lead a country to absolution for its sins and ours. “Obama was the most powerful man in the world, but that didn’t mean he could control the forces at play in the Middle East.
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