I think Obama played the hand he was dealt brilliantly on Syria.

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16. Here's refutation of your points

1) True, he never said that. I infer it because he's the only world leader who wants to go ballistic on Syria right now, other than some sort of "moral" reasoning, what has he offered for this? He surely hasn't tied it to any sort of national interest.

2) That "budget wudget" that you pooh-pooh is fundamental to the economic workings of this country. I sense a recovery starting, but if the government shuts down, it will be smothered in its crib. Those are Americans we're talking about, and this President owes them a chance at making things work. No matter what we do or don't do in Syria, those people are fucked, and we really cannot (and will not) fundamentally change that fact.

3) Yes, Gramps McCain and Goober Graham cannot agree with Rand Paul, but they're wild-ass exceptions. All of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, know America is war-weary, and we saw what happened the last time we got involved in Libya. However, the Repukes have two reasons to oppose this, and the other is that they want to make Obama look bad. Other than crazy-ass McLame and chicken-hawk Graham, most know that this is an easy vote to say no. I wish our side saw it that way.

4) The League of Nations was a total failure, at least the UN managed to preside over the time when WWIII could have started, but didn't. Nobody today gives a crap what they said ninety years ago.

5) You're the one who's scrambled, when have Republicons ever cared about innocents, even in this country? Why do you think they would care about them in the Arab world, of all places? Besides, nothing we do with this "punishment" action is going to make a ding-dong damn's worth of difference. Assad can simply use conventional weapons to annihilate his opposition, it just takes more time. He really doesn't need to do this again, not until his back is completely against the wall. And if that happens, nothing we say or do would stop him when he is truly desperate.

I'm sorry, but the people he fucked over were fucked one way or the other. Unless we plan to replace him and his regime, at great cost in money and lives, we're not going to change that with a few days of cruise missiles.