Obama’s War Speech and What He Didn’t Say

Every President in the past quarter century has made the decision to bomb Iraq.

The god-awfulness—the pure hell—of life and death in Syria in recent years,

and in much of Iraq in the decade-plus since we blew it up, made Obama’s resistance to intervention a constant trial.

The impossible choices that he saw there seemed to oppress him …

via Obama’s War Speech and What He Didn’t Say.