Barack Obama speaking to House Speaker John Boehner from the Oval Office Saturday as Joe Biden looks on. (photo credit: Pete Souza/ Official White House)
Obama Knows That America Has Lost Its Appetite For War -- Christopher Caldwell, The Spectator
The age of 'maximalist' foreign policy may be drawing to an end.
It was to Fort Belvoir that President Barack Obama repaired on Saturday, minutes after he announced that attacks by the Syrian government on a rebel stronghold in Damascus constituted ‘an assault on human dignity’ and a ‘serious threat to our national security.’ By using what the US government says was sarin gas, Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad crossed a ‘red line’ that Mr Obama had laid down a year before. The President has asked Congress to authorise an attack on Syria as soon as legislators return on 9 September.
Fort Belvoir is home to the US army’s 29th Light Infantry Division. More to the point, it is the site of a terrific 18-hole golf course, and the President had a mid-afternoon tee-time with the Vice President. Mr Obama, unlike his predecessor, is not going to rush off to war.
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My Comment: For the moment ..... I will have to say yes .... America has lost its appetite for war. But .... and this is a warning to those who may wish to do harm on the international stage .... this can easily change on a dime.