But maybe the next president can succeed where I did not.
The first post-American president has succeeded in one thing only.
But no one who has followed past efforts to solve the problem can be confident that this President will succeed.
A President cannot succeed without a healthy and understanding relationship with Congress.
The President himself has admitted the military mission cannot succeed unless the civilian population is helped back onto its feet.
If that is his aim, I don't think the French president will succeed.
The Republicans had a political agenda of not wanting the President to succeed.
If the president succeeds in making them permanent, as he has vowed to do, it will mean lasting relief for the blue states.
That the president succeeded is a tribute both to the risks he took and to his single-minded focus on election night victory.
Whether the President will succeed in enforcing some of the rules, especially those regulating advertising, is unclear.