Obama’s dilly-dallying may worsen situation

Obama continues to boast of being the president who pulled his country out of wars. After all, he swiftly left Iraq and set a deadline to leave Afghanistan. He was also at odds with the Israeli premier over striking Iran to stop its nuclear project. He also successfully extirpated Al-Qaeda to a great extent using drones.
However, Obama is faced with a dilemma when it comes to the ongoing Syrian crisis. The humanitarian situation in Syria is deteriorating steadily. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and millions of others have been displaced from their home seeking refuge in neighboring countries. Moreover, the Syrian regime is under the clutches of Iran and a Hezbollah supporter. Ending the ongoing turmoil is in the interest of American security.
Despite all the justifications to intervene, Obama has hesitated and tarried for two years. This is both because of his character and his policy. He didn’t even move to deter the Assad regime after it used chemical weapons on civilians.
Around 14,000 people, of whom one-third were children, were killed, and there have been calls from around the world to save them. When he finally decided to intervene, he took back his threats because the British PM failed to get Parliament’s approval. Add to that the many polls that came out suggesting that the majority of Americans don’t support the US intervention.
So Obama changed his tactic and sought Congress approval. To get approval on any matter is a very difficult thing, let alone a war. He might not get it and it would be very difficult for him to challenge the Congress, especially when he was the one who sought their approval in the first place.
If the Congress refuses to allow any military action, the war will go on and Assad will take it as a license for more killings and so will the Iranians. Assad will fall sooner or later, but the American intervention will help save many lives and years of war. The war between Iraq and Iran took eight years and it killed over one million people, while the war between Iraq and Kuwait took only six months because of the American intervention.
War is ugly, but all the world has to do is support war that deters criminals and invaders. The world could have avoided this mess if Obama had gotten his act together two years ago. Assad, Khamenei, and before that, Saddam and Qaddafi, are similar to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. They don’t believe in coexistence.
But we still can say that Obama is a man who made a history, even though he did not join major wars and has thus far refrained from intervening in Syria. He is the president who killed Bin Laden and ousted Qaddafi and backed the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt and Yemen.
The apparent reason for Obama’s hesitation seems to be the facts that in the event of Assad’s fall, Iran; remnants of Al-Qaeda and the likes may benefit from the situation and may later on drag the US into bigger wars.

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