June 16, 2013

Barack Obama is leading from behind in Syria - and can't see where he is going

Some wars you choose, but some wars choose you. Was there ever better illustration of this oft-repeated wisdom than Syria's slow sucking in of President Barack Obama?

The man whose electoral rallying cry was that he opposed the war in Iraq; whose aim was to end the war in Afghanistan; who vetoed all of his senior advisers, one by one, as they urged action over President Bashar al-Assad, has been forced to accept that when the Levant calls there is no escape. Barack Obama is leading from behind in Syria - and can't see where he is going - Telegraph

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