President Obama on Wednesday in Washington. Mr. Obama says he is aware of the “political price” he pays for being deliberate. Credit Pool photo by Saul Loeb
Paths to War, Then and Now, Haunt Obama -- Peter Baker, New York Times
WASHINGTON — Just hours before announcing an escalated campaign against Islamic extremists last week, President Obama privately reflected on another time when a president weighed military action in the Middle East — the frenzied weeks leading up to the American invasion of Iraq a decade ago.
“I was not here in the run-up to Iraq in 2003,” he told a group of visitors who met with him in the White House before his televised speech to the nation, according to several people who were in the meeting. “It would have been fascinating to see the momentum and how it builds.”
In his own way, Mr. Obama said, he had seen something similar, a virtual fever rising in Washington, pressuring him to send the armed forces after the Sunni radicals who had swept through Iraq and beheaded American journalists. He had told his staff, he said, not to evaluate their own policy based on external momentum. He would not rush to war. He would be deliberate.
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My Comment: Talk about being an apologist for the President .... this New York Times analysis goes overboard in every way. What can I say .... if you are supportive of the President's Middle East strategy ... you will applaud this New York Times post. If you are a critic .... be prepared to "throw-up". As to what is my take .... no applause and no "throwing-up" .... just rolling my eyes and remembering the days (early 1980s) when the New York Times was a semi-decent paper to read.
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