Writing at National Review Online, Charles Krauthammer takes president Obama to task for his failure to act or even to be honest regarding the ongoing slaughter in Syria. The column is too good to miss. Here is the opening:
Last year, President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing “would have been a betrayal of who we are,” explained the president.
In the year since, the government of Syria has more than threatened massacres. It has carried them out. Nothing hypothetical about the disappearances, executions, indiscriminate shelling of populated neighborhoods. More than 9,000 are dead.
Obama has said that we cannot stand idly by. And what has he done? Stand idly by.
The entire column is a must read. Here is the link.
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