President Obama's 'New Way Forward'

Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer: Obama confronts past wars with new way forward

(CNN)President Barack Obama, who entered office vowing to end wars but who has now presided over U.S. military conflicts in a number of countries, arrives in Asia this week to confront aspects of America's wartime past.

In a trip meant to further advance his Asia pivot, Obama is opting to embrace the historic symbolism of stops in Vietnam and Hiroshima, Japan — sites filled with complex moral lessons for an involuntary war president.

Born 16 years after the Hiroshima atomic blast -- and himself only three years old when the Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed Congress, advancing the war in Vietnam -- Obama came of age outside the direct consequences of those decisions, unlike his most recent predecessors. In both Vietnam and Japan, the President is working to move past the scars of war to develop deeper economic, diplomatic, and even military ties.

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WNU Editor: A gushing piece on President Obama's foreign (and war) policies. Let us just say that I  do not share Kevin Liptak's optimistic view .... instead ....what I am seeing are more wars, an embolden China that is challenging every U.S. ally in Asia, a tense relationship with traditional U.S. allies in the Middle East, the rise of radical Islam in Africa, and the the emergence of a new "Cold War" in Europe.