Obama Should Not Let Europe Slip Away

The Washington Post (May 29, 2014)

Obama Should Not Let Europe Slip Away

By Bruce Ackerman

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In his West Point speech Wednesday, President Obama remained trapped by the paradigm that has governed our foreign policy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. From the first Gulf War to the ongoing conflict in Syria, the United States has endlessly debated how and whether to intervene to defeat aggression and protect human rights. Obama responded by charting a moderate course between the past decade’s military interventionism and the easy answers of isolationism.