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In reply to the discussion: 9% approval for bombing Syria = suicide for Dems in 2014 [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)While it certainly can be said that there were a lot of people who'd also been opposed to our intervention in Libya, maybe perhaps as much as 75% of people over all(which is, btw, a more realistic high-end estimate of people who oppose Syrian intervention as well). But Obama did so anyway, even if not in the way that the warhawks would have liked.....and it didn't really hurt us in 2012, even with the Benghazi attacks.
TBH, althought I'm sure some of the purity-obsessed factions of the far left could end up staying home(but then again, a lot of these guys stayed home in 2010, too), I really seriously doubt that even a badly failed intervention would hurt us *too* much: if things really don't go lopsided, then it may not hurt us at all.
There are far more issues to worry about than just war, and some more important than war, at that, and, frankly, I'd rather have an imperfectly informed Dem Pres., than a guy like Rand Paul, who may claim to be anti-war, but he is ALL okay for screwing us in the ass not just financially, but even more so politically and socially as well.