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 foun