War-Weariness
By CHARLES M. BLOW, NYT
America may have lost its stomach for military intervention.
The Obama administration has made its case that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, used chemical weapons against his own people and that a “limited” military response is in order to demonstrate that international norms will — and must — be enforced.
President Obama said during a news conference on Friday, “It’s important for us to recognize that when over a thousand people are killed, including hundreds of innocent children, through the use of a weapon that 98 or 99 percent of humanity says should not be used even in war, and there is no action, then we’re sending a signal.”
The president is attempting to assure the American people that any action in Syria will not involve American boots on the ground and will not be a sinkhole like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that is a hard case to make.
The problem is that America seems war weary.
(More here.)
America may have lost its stomach for military intervention.
The Obama administration has made its case that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, used chemical weapons against his own people and that a “limited” military response is in order to demonstrate that international norms will — and must — be enforced.
President Obama said during a news conference on Friday, “It’s important for us to recognize that when over a thousand people are killed, including hundreds of innocent children, through the use of a weapon that 98 or 99 percent of humanity says should not be used even in war, and there is no action, then we’re sending a signal.”
The president is attempting to assure the American people that any action in Syria will not involve American boots on the ground and will not be a sinkhole like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that is a hard case to make.
The problem is that America seems war weary.
(More here.)
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