President Barack Obama speaks to a crowd of Marines, sailors and family members on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Aug. 7, 2013. President Obama visited the base to thank the troops for their commitment to the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Michael Cifuentes
Michael Crowley, Politico: World War O
Obama took office vowing to end America’s wars. Now we’re in at least five, and U.S. officials are unsure what to do about it.
President Barack Obama’s expression of remorse on Thursday for the death of two hostages in a U.S. drone strike underscored one of the great frustrations of his presidency: His dream of extricating the U.S. from messy foreign conflicts remains just that.
Obama pledged in his 2013 inaugural address that “a decade of war is now ending,” but the numbers suggest otherwise. The U.S. takes regular lethal action in at least five countries. U.S. troops are deployed in three conflict zones. And America is directly involved in a pair of Arab civil wars.
Some administration officials fear that things will get worse before they get better, particularly in Ukraine and Iraq. But they are divided on how best to proceed, people familiar with the Obama team’s internal debates say — with top officials like Secretary of State John Kerry urging measures like arming Ukrainian government forces with Javelin anti-tank missiles, which can ostensibly be called defensive.
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4 comments:
war mongerers
When you study mathematics you learn how to count.
I count 2 wars and many theaters.
If you want to give up on a theater, you wan tot easily cede ground to the enemy.
Which implies, you are not in it to win it.
When tribes fought, everyone fought. You might hang back at the rear of the wedge. the strongest most aggressive,or best outfitted warriors were at the tip, but everyone fought.
Well maybe not everyone. Some of the bog bodies in Europe have been thought be sacrifices to the gods. Some of the sacrifices were though to be of criminals. Might some of them have been draft dodgers and not run of the ill criminals?
Must be nice hiding behind someone else's shield.
I'm surprised Politico mentioned Robert Kagan.
"We’re sort of seeing the world order cracking around the edges. The only thing Obama can hope is that it doesn’t completely collapse while he’s still president.” -Robert Kagan
"sort of seeing" clear as mud
"ope is that it doesn’t completely collapse while he’s still" in charge.
If Obama thinks like Kagan speaks, well a person knows what to think about that.
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