America is not Mt. Olympus and Obama is not Zeus, but he thinks he is.
There is not, and never was, a slam-dunk case for US intervention in Syria. This is all of a piece with the anarchy in Libya, and the very serious coup that has taken place in Egypt. The Shi’ites based in the Islamic Republic of Iran are engaged in a turf war with the Sunni faction based in Saudi Arabia.
The great shame of the US Senate is that there several Senators wholly-owned by the Saudi royal family, and they are the ones agitating for intervention against the Iranian Shi’ite faction (McCain and Lindsey Graham). But in the wider reality, both Russia and to a lesser extent, China, have sided with the Iranians.
“Foreign policy issues” is just code for “protecting the interests of the Saudi royal family”.
What was the trigger for the Great War in 1914, again?
He was elected to end wars, debt, and spying on Americans...