Vali Nasr, a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with
Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan,
records his profound disillusion at how a "Berlin Wall" of
domestic-focused advisers was erected to protect Mr Obama.
"The president had a truly disturbing habit of funnelling major foreign
policy decisions through a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White
House advisers whose turf was strictly politics," Mr Nasr writes in The
Dispensable Nation: America Foreign policy in Retreat.
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