CNN's Fareed Zakaria: Were Obama Still President, He Would Have Ordered "Similar If Not Identical" Strike In Syria
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date April 17, 2017
CNN's Fareed Zakaria discusses his experience with "Trump derangement syndrome," where people's hatred and anger towards the president is so intense that it impairs their judgment. He talks about Obama speechwriters attacking Trump for doing exactly what President Obama would have done in Syria.
"And then came the strike against Syria. On that issue, Trump appears to have listened carefully to his senior national security professionals, reversed his ealier positions, chosen a calibrated response, and acted swiftly. I supported the strike, and pointed out both in print and on air that Trump was finally being presidential because the action 'seemed to reflect a belated recognition from Trump that he can not simply put America first, that the president of the United States must act of behalf of larger interests and ideas.' On the whole, I was critical of the president's larger Syria policy, desribing it as incoherent," Zakaria said.
http://www.realclearworld.com/video/2017/04/17/cnns_fareed_zakaria_were_obama_still_president_he_would_have_ordered_similar_if_not_identical_strike_in_syria.html
