9% approval for bombing Syria = suicide for Dems in 2014

[DaveT]

64. Finally found a silver lining

to the cloud of the Tea Party campaign of perpetually discrediting Obama.

The core of political support for the Bush invasions has been persuaded that The Commander In Chief is a fraud -- the Kenyan Socialist who pals around with terrorists. So now when there's the prospect of a splendid little war, the wingnuts are more skeptical than the peaceniks -- with nobody in-between jazzed up about those dreaded WMDs anymore. That is a far better political environment than we had when Rove was coaching Bush on how to rev up the knuckle draggers.

I doubt that Obama will get us into the Syrian War, not because I have any faith in his anti-war bona fides, but because it would be even stupider than the last two stupid wars. Nothing to gain, much to lose and politically disastrous, no matter what.

If he does start such a preposterous miltary adventure, all doubts about him should finally be resolved. His mixed record has undeniable plusses and his defenders have my respect, even as I disagree with them. But this combination of mass slaughter and geopolitical folly would clinch the case against him.

Conversely, if the President manages to hold the neo-con war hawks at bay, and avoids going to war, I will tip my hat and add a major plus mark on my personal ledger -- which now has far more big red minuses. The consenus on this thread seems to think it is going to happen, in spite of that 9% poll result.

I'm not so sure about that.