Peter Bergen : Barack Obama has authorized wars in seven Muslim countries . Although he opposed Iraq war , Obama has n't been at all shy about using force , Bergen says . This is not the record of someone who is afraid to use American power , as his critics would have it , but rather a president who is comfortable exercising American hard power even in a country like Syria , where he has launched a war without the kinds of specific international or congressional authorizations other presidents have sought since World War II . Obama 's outreach to Muslim world , Nobel Prize winners have given wrong idea , he says . Bergen : Latest war in Syria , without approval from US or Arab governments .
Peter Bergen : Barack Obama has authorized wars in seven Muslim countries . Although he opposed Iraq war , Obama has n't been at all shy about using force , Bergen says . Obama 's outreach to Muslim world , Nobel Prize winners have given wrong idea , he says . Bergen : Latest war in Syria , without approval from US or Arab governments .