Posted on 09/18/2014 9:19:46 AM PDT by Lorianne
It’s not too late. He could go be a mercenary, which is what I wish all the hawks’d do instead of bothering us about it.
What Congressional obstruction?
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Ok, you got me there.
I was just trying for that “superman” phrase,
they really haven’t stopped him from doing
anything have they?
A mercenary? In Syria or Iraq?
I don’t get your last statement “instead of bothering us about it.”
Thanks for that
By bothering us I mean whipping us up into a frenzy so that we’ll support their bombings/invasions. Not that our support is strictly necessary; Obama doesn’t think he needs anyone’s permission and he’s practically correct. But they are a little afraid of us, as evidenced by the Syrian war we narrowly averted not long ago. You remember, with the red lines and all.
My preference would be for them to leave us alone and either go themselves or buy their own armies and fight Al Queda II, or whoever it is posing a grave threat to someone else’s national security.
The president promises every day that he won't commit "armed forces to fighting another ground war in Iraq."
The more he promises, the more I suspect that's just what will happen.
FDR made similar promises in 1941, but his situation after Pearl Harbor wasn't quite the same.
The parallel to Johnson in the 1960s is much closer.
The business of telling the other side what one plans to do is also similar, though I don't think LBJ ever offered Ho and Giap tactical advice.
But Obama is even smarter than LBJ, so “he’ll do it right” this time.
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