Sarah’s Reviews > The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World > Status Update

- “Consequentialist”: less interested in appearances than what actually works
- Long Game checklist: balance, sustainability, restraint, precision, patience, fallibility, skepticism, exceptionalism
- Obama “champion of American exceptionalism”
- take intelligence and scrub with an eye towards “what can be released publicly; constructs legal basis for action