I have voted for President Obama at every opportunity, although my view is that he's made major mistakes. My reason for choosing him can be found in Dexter Filkins' article in the May 13 The New Yorker. In the article Leon Panetta talks about a covert proposal to arm one side in the Syrian civil war. This course of action was urged on Obama by Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Gen. Petraeus and David Clapper (director of National Intelligence). Obama replied, No thanks. He saw that action as a slippery slope down which we would tumble into yet another war--and why this particular war? At any time there are ten such wars we can sponsor if we decide to get involved.
Obama's action astonished Sen. John McCain. "There may be another time in history when a President's entire national-security team recommended a course of action and he overruled them, but if there is I'm not aware of it," McCain said. Yes, there is most of a universe out there that McCain never heard about.
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