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Dems who were against Bush's wars you'd thing would also be against this Syria intervention.
Either you're anti-war or you're one of the warmongers. We as a country have to stop being the country always ready to invade, intervene, occupy, foment coups and assassinations, or bomb other countries. We've done this for the entire 20th century and even before (see the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in the 1890s). We're now in the second decade of the 21st century and we already have two wars under our belt with war drums beating for a third.
We have to resist the calls to rain down missiles/bombs unto Syria, even those coming from other Dems. They are wrong and need to stop sipping the kool-aid.
It takes one courageous president to say "no" to war as a way of solving disputes between countries or within countries.
Pray that President Obama is the "one" as the Middle East has decades of turmoil coming to sort out their problems of authoritarian governments being intertwined with religion, their medieval views on women, their volatile sectarian grievances, their horrendous income inequalities and their need to become modern representative societies.
It began to happen with the Arab Spring but there will be many stops and starts and steps back and forward and revolts and the resulting civil wars before all is resolved. We as a country need to steer clear of involvement as much as possible, like we did by avoiding sending troops to Egypt and Libya.
Let's hope this president has the inner strength and personal courage to stand against the military, the arms manufacturers, their congressional puppets, the corporate media war drummers and even Democrats with 2014 and 2016 political agendas. Otherwise we're doomed to keep repeating the war/occupation/treasury-draining cycle with tons of money flowing into one-percenter pockets while the rest of us 99 percenters sink deeper and deeper into a low-wage, near-third world, service-jobs-only economy.
I have an inkling that President Obama's heart is not really into this intervention but being PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND COMMAMDER-IN-CHIEF OF EMPIRE demands continual war to keep MIC coffers full. His flipping of the script to turn the decision over to Congress, IMHO, shows that he's trying to find a way out of intervention but he has to maintain the facade of being for it.
Let's hope he has another chess move to make that will avoid yet another war.
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