What if Obama doesn't want to go to war with Syria?

[David Krout]

What do you think of this scenario?

Obama does not want to go to war with Syria, but wants to avoid being painted as weak by neocons and MSM hawks.
In order to avoid conflict with Syria, he asks Congress for authorization to go to war, knowing that Congress will say no.

Obama will then be able to say both that he wanted to go to war (killing the neocons' argument) and that he sought Congressional authorization, which 80% of Americans want.

[Chiquitita]

1. within the realm of possibility

he said he doesn't think we can watch children get killed and stand idly by. Who's going to argue with that? But he didn't say he wanted to go to war with Syria, just order some sort of response... leaves a lot of wiggle room.

[Turbineguy]

2. He's putting

the turd in Congress's pocket.

[tritsofme]

3. You are way off base if you think Congress would reject such an authorization.

Despite the rhetoric on the fringes of both caucuses, a Syria AUMF or equivalent would get 80-90 votes in the Senate and 300+ in the House.