Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.'
My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as 'safe zones' inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces.
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.
President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.