OpEd: While Syria burns

By: Charles Krauthammer
Last year President Barack Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” To stand by and do nothing “would have been a betrayal of who we are,” explained the president. But what has he done for Syria? Stand idly by.

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