President Barack Obama delivers an address to the nation on the U.S. Counterterrorism strategy to combat ISIL, in the Cross Hall of the White House, Sept. 10, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
It was a speech that Barack Obama — a war-stopping, Nobel Peace Prize-winning President — never wanted to give.
A year after he pulled back from threatened military attacks on Syria over chemical weapons, Obama told America he now would launch airstrikes against ISIS targets in the country wracked by civil war.
The nationally televised address on Wednesday night, which lasted less than 15 minutes, promised far-reaching impact that could embroil the nation in another Middle East conflict.
“This was a very difficult speech for him,” CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger said of a President who campaigned on ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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