This Presidential Race Short on Calls for Peace: New at Reason

When President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election in 1916, as Europeans slaughtered each other on an unprecedented scale, his slogan was, “He kept us out of war.” If Barack Obama were allowed to run for re-election, he could use this slogan: “He kept us out of Syria.” 

Will his successor? Steven Chapman notes that, given that the United States has been continuously at war for more than 14 years, you might think this topic would be a focus of the presidential campaign. But it’s been largely ignored. Military involvement in foreign conflicts is no longer unusual enough to warrant much attention from the candidates or the electorate.

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