How Obama Left The Neocons Feeling Foolish (X posted at BOG)

[DonViejo]

September 18th, 2013 12:00 am

Gene Lyons

“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”

–Winston Churchill, June 26, 1954

Before you make the mistake of taking President Obama’s most strident critics regarding the Syrian deal too seriously, ponder this: With few exceptions, those calling the Russian-American agreement to eliminate Bashar al-Assad’s nerve gas arsenal a capitulation, a sellout, and a shameful retreat also think bombing Damascus wouldn’t have been nearly enough.

Nothing short of a boots-on American invasion of Syria would have satisfied these jokers. Prominent among them is Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who views the diplomatic breakthrough as “an act of provocative weakness on America’s part.”

McCain, who has vigorously supported all nine of the nation’s last three wars on about 316 TV talk shows, is never happy unless the U.S. is attacking somebody. Only violent solutions strike him as realistic. That’s probably the single biggest reason he never became president.

Then there’s Eliot A. Cohen, founding father of the Project for a New American Century, a now-defunct Washington pressure group whose messianic schemes for a U.S. empire stretching from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan inspired the Iraq War. Featuring such luminaries as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, to these geniuses, overthrowing Saddam Hussein was only the beginning. Next on their agenda was Iran, in case you wonder why the mad ayatollahs have been tinkering with nukes.

So anyway, just as President Obama was getting ready to ask Congress to endorse a punitive strike against Syrian chemical weapon sites, Cohen published a Washington Post column scolding Americans for their cowardice. The families of the war dead, he allowed, were entitled to their sorrow.

full article:
http://www.nationalmemo.com/how-obama-left-the-neocons-feeling-foolish/

[Cha]

1. Thanks good article, DV

[DonViejo]

2. You're most welcome, Cha. The author,

Gene Lyons, is a personal friend. I really like his columns and the books he's authored or, co-authored with Joe Conason.

[Cha]

4. Oh, wow.. a personal friend! how nice. :)

[freshwest]

3. Well, you see, it's like this:

John McCain feels a ‘little lonely from time to time’ because nobody wants to attack Syria

By Bandit - September 16, 2013


Forever Alone

Rapidly approaching his 80th birthday (2016 when his term ends) – and undecided whether to seek another term in the Senate, John McCain (RWNJ-AZ) told Mike Brzezinski during an interview on MSNBC that he “felt a little lonely from time to time” because most of his colleagues did not want to use U.S. military force against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria.

Comparing himself to Harry Truman (??) McCain insisted, “If Harry Truman had bowed to public opinion, the world would be a very different place if we lost in Korea” He continued “There are times when leaders have to stand up. And, frankly, when others have to say what they believe. And if it costs you politically — as you know, I had some very interesting town hall meetings back in Arizona. But that’s what you’re supposed to do.”

McCain added, “There’s no good options here, but to do nothing, I think, is the worst option. And I hope that we have not sent a message to people all over the world that that — including our adversaries and bad people — that we are not willing to do the right thing.”

Raw Story reports, “On Sunday during an interview with NBC, John McCain asserted that that an agreement between the United States and Russia that met President Barack Obama’s goal of securing Syria’s chemical weapons without being drawn into a war was a “loser.””

Watch Raw Story video:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/16/mccain-feels-a-little-loneley-because-nobody-wants-to-attack-syria/

http://freakoutnation.com/2013/09/16/john-mccain-feels-a-little-lonely-from-time-to-time-because-nobody-wants-to-attack-syria/

Enjoy the comments on the FreakOutNation page.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. That photo is going to give me nightmares!!

[freshwest]

6. Ah, that's nothing. I have a lot of them that look more insane than that of Bomb Iran Johnny.

These guys are turning them selves inside out to oppose anything Obama does.

At least he's going to retire in 2016.

Oops, his replacement may be even worse...