Posted on 09/10/2013 3:13:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
In the oft-admired model of a decisive lone warrior, President Obama could have ordered strikes on Syria without asking Congress. Instead, the commander in chief chose to ask lawmakers. At the least, all Americans should now reciprocate. They could suspend judgment and listen to what Mr. Obama has to say in his Tuesday evening address to the nation.
In decisions of war, bravery is needed in knowing when to be humble in listening for ones biases and evaluating new evidence. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen, said Winston Churchill.
Obama is hardly a warmonger, thus he deserves attention to his arguments for a limited attack on Syrias military. He has not told other nations if you are not with us, you are against us. He is being a listener in chief even as he asks Americans to join him in pursuing the goal of curbing Syrias use of chemical weapons and reestablishing a global norm.
Im not itching for military action ... and if there are good ideas that are worth pursuing, then Im going to be open to them, he told one reporter, in a statement that suggests he is the type of leader who is comfortable with his doubts.
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Tuesdays speech should be an opportunity for Americans to ultimately listen to Obamas case for a military strike. The strike itself would be done by old-style command-and-control management. But the decision to do it must be done by a new style of leadership, one in which leaders and followers have a conversation in which listening is as important as talking.
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Ain’t gunna on in this domicile...no way, no how.
I don’t listen to any thing that POS has to say. It’s all lies.
"The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong
to some man as his absolute property - either as a child,
a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery
until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."
[Winston Churchill, 1899, "The River War"]
I’ve suggested on other threads: watch IDIOCRACY on DVD instead. With each passing day, this satire looks more and more like a documentary.
Gag me with a spoon.
Blecchhhh, and double blechhh. The plots on my telenovelas are more believable than anything the CiC has to say. If Telemundo bumps my Mexican Soaps for his address, I will be totally PO’d.
“All Americans should now reciprocate”
You know, that looks like something you would read in the old Pravda.
Aint gunna on in this domicile...no way, no how.>>>>>>>>>>>>
Right with you on that. Everything that will come out of his mouth is going to be a lie.
This should have a “barf alert” warning on the title.
Why you ask? Exactly.
As much as anything, this will be a concession to the Russian Federation that the US now forfeits any moral authority it may have had in the Middle East, and the region becomes a de facto hegemony of the regenerated Russian state.
Russians may have stopped being Communists, but they have never stopped being Russians. The confrontation between Mother Russia and that rather irregular federation that now sits in governance of the territory formerly known as “the United States of America” is ongoing and largely an unending source of friction for two cultures on one hand is the archetype of paranoia, and on the other hand, the Code of the Cowboy.
I don’t know. Is he going to say there are 57 states again? That was a laffer.
Where is he giving it from, the 18th Tee??
I’m sorry but as much as I’d LIKE to like him, his speeches make me barf up my dinner
Can’t think of a single reason to listen and haven’t found one for years.
Why should I listen to this lightweight tonight? Is he suddenly going to start telling the truth?
I have more constructive things to do than listen to Taquiyya; like picking fleas off my dog.
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