America’s Changing Views on Intervention

Ron Brownstein: “For nearly a
decade, from Bill Clinton’s first-term moves into Haiti and Bosnia
through George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, the current of
American foreign policy moved steadily toward greater tolerance of
military intervention abroad. The division, ambivalence, and hesitation
in both parties about intervening in Syria culminate a subsequent decade
that has almost completely reversed this tide.”