According to the New York Times, “Mr. Obama said that many people were ‘war weary,’ and — without singling out the decision by Britain not to join in any attack — he added that ‘a lot of people think something should be done, but nobody wants to do it.'”[1] This “war weary” is a curious turn of phrase.
- [1]Michael D. Shear, “Obama and Kerry Press Case for U.S. Action in Syria,” New York Times, August 30, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/world/middleeast/john-kerry-syria.html↩