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For a politician who built his 2008 presidential campaign on a no - war platform, it is a painful decision to reverse a course he has diligently sought to pursue. On 10 September 2014, a day before the 13 th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, American President Barack Obama committed himself to another war. This was done in a televised address to his nation. He made a sober ass essment of the situation created not only for his country but for the entire international community by the new threat from an Islamic extremist movement that had morphed several times since the United States invaded Iraq under the direction of President G eorge W Bush.