Kurdish peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants on the front line in Khazer August 8, 2014. US warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq's Kurdish capital on Friday after President Obama said Washington must act to prevent 'genocide.' Azad Lashkari/Reuters
Obama Intervenes In Iraq: Lessons Learned From Benghazi And Rwanda -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
Benghazi and Rwanda, two crises where military intervention was not used, likely figured in the backdrop of Obama's decision on what to do about a looming genocide and an imminent threat to US personnel in Iraq.
Washington — No one has ever accused President Obama of being overanxious to use military force.
But as Mr. Obama considered and ultimately authorized US military action Thursday to address the mounting humanitarian and security threats posed by Islamist militants in northern Iraq, two earlier crises where military intervention was not used likely figured in the backdrop of White House discussions on what to do about a looming genocide and an imminent threat to US personnel in Iraq.
One was the attack on US diplomatic compounds in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, and the other was the Rwanda genocide in 1994.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 8, 2014
Airstrikes, Sure; but What About a Strategy in Iraq? -- New York Times
Why Can't ISIS Be Stopped? -- Nancy Youssef, McClatchy
As US bombs militants in Kurdistan, Maliki clings to power in Baghdad -- Jane Araaf, CSM
Who are the religious and ethnic groups under threat from ISIS? -- Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Hamas could have chosen peace. Instead, it made Gaza suffer. -- Dennis Ross, Washington Post
Hamas emerges weakened from Gaza war -- Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh, AP
Graphic content: How media differ on use of Gaza images -- BBC
Without shift in Afghan strategy, Taliban only winners -- Scott Smith, Special to CNN
Turkey election: The price of Erdogan's popularity -- Mark Lowen BBC
Presidential Election Set to Seal Erdogan's Supremacy -- Hasnain Kazim and Maximilian Popp, Spiegel Online
Military threat key to push FDLR rebels in Congo to disarm: U.N. -- Michelle Nichols, Business Insider/Reuters
The Vladimir Putin School of Leadership -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
The Global Economy’s Groundhog Day -- Ashoka Mody, Project Syndicate
Hashtag diplomacy won't save lives -- Gary Bauer, USA Today
1 comment:
When GWB was president, he said something to the effect "I am the decider."
Then we have Mr Clinton. He goes around weeping all the time that the world that America should have done something about the Rwandan genocide.
America was the lone superpower at the time. It had resources to spare. CHECK
America had the airlift capacity to send troops. CHECK
America had the troops available. CHECK
In 1994 America had the 1st black President (per Tony Morrison). CHECK
What am I missing?
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