Ed Krayewski Asks: Will Politics-Driven Warmongering Save Us From World War III?

This week while in the
Philippines, at the tail end of his nine-day trip to Asia,
President Obama bemoaned that his critics at home tie every
foreign policy event that doesn’t play out in America’s perceived
favor to his failure last summer to intervene militarily in Syria
over chemical weapons allegations. “Why is it that everybody is so
eager to use military force after we’ve just gone through a decade
of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget?” the
president asked at a press conference in Manila, insisting his
foreign policy was one that sought to “avoid error.”

But, asks Reason’s Ed Krayewski, is it enough to avoid World War
III?

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