For Obama an unexpected legacy of "Two Full Terms at War"
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama came into office seven years ago pledging to end the wars of his predecessor, George W. Bush. On May 6, with eight months left before he vacates the White House, Mr. Obama passed a somber, little-noticed milestone: He has now been at war longer than Mr. Bush, or any other American president. If the United States remains in combat in Afghanistan , Iraq and Syria until the end of Mr. Obama’s term — a near-certainty given the president’s recent announcement that he will send 250 additional Special Operations forces to Syria — he will leave behind an improbable legacy as the only president in American history to serve two complete terms with the nation at war.
Progressives don't want to even address this issue about "Golden Boy" Barack Obama !
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Obama who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 and spent his years in the White House trying to fulfill the promises he made as an antiwar candidate would have a longer tour of duty as a wartime president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Abraham Lincoln.Obama has also approved strikes against terrorist groups in Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen for a total of seven countries where his administration has taken military action. |
