Obama And Kerry Invoke The Bush Doctrine On Syria

As the US prepares for possible military action in Syria, the nation is once again for the second time in a decade forced to confront a major human rights crisis in the middle east involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). There is a great deal of irony in this current dilemma in that two of the key figures have spent a great deal of the past decade lambasting the Bush administration for its Iraq policy and its belief in preemptive strikes known as the 'Bush Doctrine".

The Months long Syrian civil war between ba"ath party loyalist and rebel forces has jumped to top of President Obama's foreign policy agenda. A gas attack against rebel forces which has left 1,400 dead marked a crossing of a "red line" by Syria which the president promised would result in a U.S. response. Go back to 2003: the Bush administration suspecting Iraq of possessing WMD launched an invasion which although eventually led to Saddam Hussein's removal from power, no WMD were found. Over the next decade, political candidates on the left such as Kerry and Obama slammed the Bush administration for an 'illegal war', unilateralism and for cherry picking intelligence. Kerry in 2004 stated  that the Bush administration "has undermined the legacy of generations of  American leadership by using force before diplomacy was exhausted". Just this week Kerry and Obama's spewed rhetoric that sounds eerily similar to that of Bush and Cheney in 2003. During a news conference on Friday, Kerry stated "Just longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about. And history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator’s wanton use of weapons of mass destruction against all warnings, against all common understanding of decency".

 'This attack is a threat to our national security" Obama stated during his Rose Garden news conference-which mirrors the words of President Bush during the buildup to the Iraq war. It is startling to see both Kerry and the President pirouette from their previous positions on preemptive strikes. During the campaign of 08', I likened then candidate Obama to a back-up quarterback who hears the fans chanting his name and thinks he can run the team better than the starter-even though he's never played in a game. Now that he is the starter, he's sees those 300 pound lineman coming straight for his head. President Obama was anointed as a someone who would heal the world. So much so that he was incredulously awarded the Nobel Peace prize just ten months into his presidency. For all the hope and change rhetoric and criticism on the Bush foreign policy, Obama's foreign policy is indistinguishable from that of W. Somehow I don't think it will matter to his supporters. 

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