James Carden, a contributing writer for The Nation and former advisor on Russia at the US State Department, discusses how the Washington DC foreign policy consensus, locked down by neoconservatives and Wilsonian liberal interventionists, stopped Obama from following through on his campaign pledges to end the Iraq War, broker peace in Israel-Palestine, and improve relations with Russia.
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