the people who defended the NSA most vociferously, are those

[Scootaloo]

214. It's not just this

Remember Syria? Remember DU's response? I'm sure you do cali, but for the others here...

1) Someone - we're still not sure who dropped a chemical weapon in Syria, killing over four hundred and injuring a thousand.

2) The president vowed a stern response to send a message that the world will not tolerate... You know the soundbite string.

3) Dozens of DU'ers rallied around the President (not that one, this one) and began howling for the blood of Arabs. Which means it was probably Tuesday.

4) it got to be SUCH a mess that the Barack Obama Group - a conclave of DU pro-war violent extremism at the time - had to announce all its threads as fanservice threads and a reminder that the mods there would brook no argument against the march to war.

5) Meanwhile John Kerry is parading around Europe, making facile comparisons between Assad and Hitler, and chiding the EU for not backing an attack on Syria. because a good way to get Europe on your side is to yell "hitler!" and accuse them of appeasing whoever it is. The UK backs down and we're left yelping about a unilateral strike anyway, when the stars are right, just you wait and see!

6) DU'ers continue to howl about the necessity of immediate war to "teach them a lesson," even as it is explained by multitudes who don't store their brains in their colons, all the reasons it's a hideously bad idea (some of us suffered severe flashbacks from 2002 during this...)

7) Assad seizes on an off-the-cuff statement from Kerry, and offers to relinquish its chemical weapons. Kerry and the White House mumble about how they weren't REALLY offering, DU's pro-war swamp trolls scream Admiral Akbar's line over and over again and proceed to accuse other DU'ers of loving piles of dead people and eating babies and kicking dogs and whatnot.

8) in the end, the administration tells Assad, "well... okay, i guess..." and the sane portion of the world breathed a sigh of relief. On DU, the exact same people who had, five minutes prior been screaming for war and mayhem are suddenly cheering the president for his "masterwork diplomacy."

it's really baffling. I like the president - at least as much as i can like a US president. I agree with him on most things. But the rabid fans? These people just make me sigh and shake my head.