Barack Obama, a foreign-affairs novice, came to a government in which America’s foreign policy was a sphere of contest among different aides rather than a settled posture. He did not have a settled view on what to do with dictators and was a reluctant intervener in foreign morasses; he opposed the invasion of Iraq while still an Illinois state senator.
Crossing the ‘red line’
Even when President Bashar al-Assad crossed Obama’s “red line” by using chemical weapons in Syria, the U.S. president didn’t deploy U.S. boots onto Syrian ground. In Libya, it was France and Britain who led military action in support …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
