English: United States President Barack Obama signs into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as Vice President Joe Biden looks on. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is an excellent, MUST READ article by historian Tim Stanley, who specializes in modern US history; check it out!
I too think this is a very shrewd move by President Obama to gain Congressional approval; he claims that that military intervention in Syria is not time limited so this gives him room for further leverage using the US’s full weight.
I support the return to democracy.
Let me now turn this to an open question:
Should President Hollande now seek French parliamentary approval before military intervention in Syria?
Any views?
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In 2008, when Barack Obama was campaigning for the American presidency in Germany, he derided and decried the “unilateralism” of George Bush in attacking Iraq. NB: If recruiting a coalition of over 40 sovereign states to take out Saddam Hussein was “unilateralism”, then what Barack Obama is doing now is geopolitical masturbation.