Obama cogent — and cautious — at NATO summit
Posted on AllSides September 6th, 2014
From The Left
President Obama has spent the summer carefully weighing options to confront the world's myriad crises, while much of the world looked to the United States to take charge.
This week, at the NATO summit here in the rolling hills of Wales, Obama and members of his cabinet edged toward action, drumming up coalition support for action against the Islamic State. The president said Friday that a NATO-led group could reach out to Syrian rebels as possible proxy fighters to fight against Islamic militants.
"There’s great conviction that we have to...
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