A stunning profile of Ben Rhodes, the asshole who is the president’s foreign policy guru – Foreign Policy

A stunning profile of Ben Rhodes, the asshole who is the president’s foreign policy guru – Foreign Policy: The profile of one Ben Rhodes running in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is not unsympathetic, which makes it all the more devastating.

Perhaps the key sentence is this: “His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations — like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in international relations, rather than creative writing — is still startling.”

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