Barack Obama once said that if the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was to use chemical weapons, the US would take action.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-issues-syria-red-line-warning-on-chemical-weapons/2012/08/20/ba5d26ec-eaf7-11e1-b811-09036bcb182b_story.html
That was last year. That was during an election year. Obama felt that he had show his neo-conservative opponents that he's not a "soft, namby-pamby pacifist who apologizes for America."
Well, last month, Assad used chemical weapons on his opponents.
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-poison-gas-20130822,0,2731889.story
Now, Obama is in a tough position. He said the US would take action if Assad used chemical weapons! But the US population is tired of our military intervening in other countries affairs!
As Obama said last year, we got nation building to do at home!
We still don't know what Obama would actually do! He might send warplanes to Syria.
But if he ever send ground troops to Syria, that's it ---- the American public would turn against him big time!
We're getting closer to a turning point in American history.
Obama will be the last president in a long-time to even promise military intervention against a country that didn't attack us.
The American People no longer have faith in having the US troops go in and intervene in other countries affairs. The American public reaction to chaos in other countries is now "screw it, that's their problem" and "getting involved will just make it worse"
It will probably stay that way for decades.
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Check out a 2011 blog post on this topic titled "Defend America 1st"
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2011/07/defend-america-1st.html
