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[karynnj]

42. By "out in the open", I mean that Obama spoke to the nation several times - each time

stating the problem, and what his goals were and some big picture description of what he was calling on the military and his administration to do. He also sent Hagel, Kerry, and top military people to Congressional hearings. There was a public UN meeting last Friday that CSPAN covered. Obviously, the detailed attack plans will not be public.

You are not even speaking of what Obama is doing NOW. Instead, you seem to be speaking more about what you think the US did in 2011 - 2012, ignoring that Obama overruled many who wanted more US action, and the call last year for strikes to put a cost to Assad using chemical weapons. I understand why the RIGHT refuses to admit that the Obama administration pushing Syria to give up all their chemical weapons (though any number of industrial chemicals could also kill) is NOT a victory. In their case, unlike Obama or Kerry, who always said the goal of any response was to make CW use less likely, their goal was to have the US attack itself cause regime change. On the left, I think there was a leap to condemn Obama -- and then a complete inability to accept that Obama meant exactly what he had always said.

In contrast, in the Reagan years, there was NO public statement that the US would do any of things that this video shows. They did no go to Congress or the nation with anything on arming Iran -- while we were officially arming Iraq, the country they were fighting. On the Contras, it was even more extreme. They could not go to Congress. Congress had already expressly forbidden aid to the Contras. The entire Iran/Contra action was completely unConstitutional and illegal. The problem is that, though there were hearings and it did make the history books used in high schools, people like North and Eliott Abrams are still out there and treated like experts - rather than criminals.