I can't help but wonder would there really be this much of a divide on DU about military action

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56. Dem or repug president, we were going to do something about ISIS

This president's policy should be a surprise only for its restraint. And I say that realizing and acknowledging — unlike some who seem to overlook this or have yet to accept it — the President of the United States is head of the most rapacious, blood-stained, military-industrial-complex-dominated empire in the history of the world, i repeat, THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, and the forces that wield power within it, even beyond the power of the president, will not be denied yet again a profit-making opportunity. Obama has denied them repeatedly.

Criticize his foreign policy all you want but he has shown remarkable restraint, and courage, in the face of those aforementioned forces, in keeping us out of war in Syria; he played his cards right and got rid of Kaddaffi without sending troops; he let the Egypt Arab Spring play out to get rid of Mubarak without troop intervention, and he openly stated we're not sending troops to the Ukraine.

He has constantly shown his anti-war bona fides and even with this ISIS crisis his reluctance to get into a war is obvious to those who take the time to look and access the situation instead of repeating the far right and/or far left talking points against whatever he does or does not do.

I said all that to say that the President of the United States, and all that that title entails, could hardly keep out of this ISIS crisis and survive. That's right, I said SURVIVE — and I'm not talking about impeachment.

If Barack Obama had went on national TV the other night and said we will do nothing in regard to the current ISIS crisis as it is a matter for Syria and Iraq to solve he would, IMO, be either assassinated or perish in an Air Force One crash or some other "accident" within 6 months.

The MIC and its bought-and-paid-for sycophants (repug and blue dog dem politicians and/or their agents in the field) would see to that. Empire and humongous, humongous profits not gained previously in Syria, Libya, Egypt and the Ukraine are at stake (that's really what it's all about — cries of liberty and justice and threats to the US notwithstanding), and no reluctant-to-go-to-war president will be allowed to stand in the way of yet another oligarchic, coffer-stuffing cash bonanza, especially a black president.

Matter a fact, better make that dead in 3 months instead of 6 because of the black factor.