Meet the New War, Same as the Old War

[world wide wally]

45. If we think about this logically for a moment, and put emotions and politics aside, it seems

pretty obvious that this is exactly what ISIS wanted us to do (not to mention the Neo-cons). Thom Hartman read an excerpt from Osama Bin Laden last week that said something to the effect of, "all we have to do is send someone to the farthest corner of the Earth and have him wave an Al Queada flag, and the US will send thousands of troops and billions of dollars to go get him."

Of course we can't allow these assholes to go around executing Americans for the sake of making videos, but playing this game of cat and mouse on their terms is foolish. I am sure we can all suggest better strategies of dealing with this, but I am afraid that once again, Obama has caved to pressure from the right to "just bomb somebody already!"

He sells us, as well as himself, short by doing this. Obama does his best when he actually thinks for himself.