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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
The president technically doesn't need Congress to launch a strike. Reagan didn't ask congress to approve the strike against Libya he showed them.
Obama was a good president in many ways but he was also weak militarily and had many foreign policy missteps. one could even say his handling of Syria showed Russian his weakness and paved the way for them to invade and annex Crimea. If that wasn't a show of weakness watching 300 people blown from the sky by a Russian missile and doing nothing certainly was.
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Weak militarily because he inherited a military that was fatigued after the Iraq quagmire and Afghanistan mission. There was no appetite (social or economic) to get into another war.