Barack Obama’s Tragedy

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2014/09/19/barack-obamas-tragedy/

The U.S. president is embarking on a war he never wanted to fight—with a coalition upon which he can't depend.

Barack Obama’s Tragedy
Published in Die Zeit (Germany) on 17 September 2014 by Matthias Nass [link to original]
Translated from German by Ron Argentati.
Edited by Gillian Palmer.
Posted on September 19, 2014.

It's a tragic turn of events that Obama's presidency is facing these days. Elected by the people to get the U.S. out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama now is going to war in the Middle East himself.

The president avoids the word “war,” preferring instead to call it an anti-terror action; he responds to the murdering bands of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with targeted strikes against individuals and terrorist groups in Yemen and Somalia.

But of course, it is a war—the third Iraq war in 25 years—and it has already begun: The U.S. Air Force has flown more than 160 sorties against Islamic State in the past few weeks.

Obama is trying to forge a military coalition, just as both Bush I and Bush II did before him. On Monday of this week, representatives from 29 nations met in Paris, but that represented more a coalition of the unwilling than was the case earlier.

[morningfog]

1. And is actually 2 wars, Iraq and Syria.

The two are different, but we will be stuck there for years to come.

[KoKo]

2. and the AFRICOM Interventions...

and, those 5,000 troops in to fight Ebola and actions in Somalia....