Barack Obama Went from Peace Candidate to War President: New at Reason

Barack Obama came into office intending to correct his predecessor’s biggest mistakes by ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He didn’t, because he made his own grievous mistake: choosing to prolong failure rather than admit it. 

The error is not original with Obama. George W. Bush did the same thing in those wars, persisting in them mainly because he didn’t know what else to do. So did Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon in Vietnam. Steve Chapman explains more.

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