Monday, October 13, 2014

A War For Show

Politico

People watch smoke rising from the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds, after an airstrike on Oct. 8, 2014. | Getty
 
"Compared with President Barack Obama, even Jimmy Carter is John McCain. The former president practically synonymous with American weakness and retreat thinks Obama was too slow to act against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and gives his current strategy only “a possibility of success,” provided it involves (unspecified) ground troops.
"When you are too passive for Jimmy Carter, it’s time for some soul-searching in the Situation Room. The late-1970s are calling and want their foreign policy back." ... Read more:

Rich Lowry is editor of National Review.
                   

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