“There’s a general agreement that the goal and the means allocated to pursue the goal just don’t fit” in the case of President Obama’s response to the Islamic State, George Will said.
He took issue with the process of picking allies in Syria to support: “Another word for the Syrian rebels is ‘vetted moderates.’ I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when we vetted the moderates in the Syrian opposition. There’s an unreality in the language here.”
“What we’re not doing here,” Will said, “is the Powell doctrine. Powell said if you’re going to get involved, do it with overwhelming — which is to say undisputably sufficient — force.”
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