House votes to arm and train Syrian Opposition...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

Breaking on the TV tubes now.

On a vote of 273-156, the US House of Representatives just passed legislation that will allow President Obama to proceed with his plan to arm and train the Syrian opposition.

Story developing...

[Aerows]

1. They can deploy arms to the Syrian Opposition

which implies that people are actually there to do these transactions of weapons, but we are too limited to know who ISIL is selling oil to and how the oil is arriving to said customers.

What was all of this stuff about "it's necessary to spy to protect Americans" but we can't figure out key details like how large amounts of oil are arriving clandestinely to unknown parties and what currency they are using to purchase it?

I've heard bad explanations before, but this is worse than "the dog ate my homework".

[leftstreet]

8. 17+ Intel agencies, but nobody knows nothin about nothin

+1

[Aerows]

11. I foresee another round of

"Who could have predicted" coming. Sigh.

[SummerSnow]

2. Damn.

And we'll be in there for 20 years.

[hifiguy]

3. What could POSSIBLY go wrong

with THAT?? May as well give whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

[TheMastersNemesis]

4. If Things Go Wrong Obama Will Be Blamed

[Aerows]

7. Whoever goes along with such a bullshit plan

SHOULD be blamed. That includes ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE up to and including Obama should be blamed.

If you wake up in the morning and decide it's a great idea to put rat poisoning in your own coffee then drink it, who should be blamed? Mr. Coffee? Juan Valdez? D-Con?

[Aerows]

5. Might as well

give a group of 5 year olds a can of gasoline and matches to play with. Surely nothing bad could happen!

[derby378]

6. Uh...

Isn't this more or less how al-Qaeda got started?

[Aerows]

10. Yeah

But this time it will be different.

[99th_Monkey]

9. POTUS didn't "hurry up and do something stupid" fast enough

so the House beats him to it.

[choie]

12. Quote about the vote from a Dem Congressman..

“Obama is our commander in chief,” said Representative C. A. (Dutch) Ruppersberger of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. “You don’t weaken the commander in chief when we’re in a serious crisis.”

Could somebody please tell me what "serious crisis" we're in?