Why Obama Gets No Credit for Success

President Obama “prevented an atrocity” in Libya, but no one’s giving him credit. Why? “Because he prevented an atrocity,” writes Michael Grunwald in Time . It’s called the “counterfactual problem:” “It’s hard to get credit for avoiding a disaster when it’s impossible to prove the disaster would have happened without you….

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Why Obama Gets No Credit for Success

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