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Topic	Trump's missile strike in Syria was a diversionary tactic
SkynyrdRocker 04/09/17 9:11:35 PM #24:	streamofthesky posted... The point was having a reason to go to war (in some form...bombing the shit out of a country is war, even if we put no boots on the ground and 99% of U.S. citizens go about their lives like nothing's different). So he asked Congress to sanction military action, as the constitution requires. And they chickened out of being personally accountable for a possible war. Obama couldn't win. If he follows the constitution, he's weak. If he had made strikes against Assad w/o Congressional approval, they'd have called him a dictator. No matter what he does, people like you would shout that he's wrong. I think I'd have supported him acting in Syria. I don't know. We intervened in Iraq and it's a mess. We haven't intervened in Syria and it's a mess. The Middle East, man... <cite>SkynyrdRocker posted [p:876880255] in Trump's mi... [t:75218648]...</cite> <quote><cite>streamofthesky posted...</cite> <quote>The point was having a reason to go to war (in some form...bombing the shit out of a country is war, even if we put no boots on the ground and 99% of U.S. citizens go about their lives like nothing's different). So he asked Congress to sanction military action, as the constitution requires. And they chickened out of being personally accountable for a possible war. Obama couldn't win. If he follows the constitution, he's weak. If he had made strikes against Assad w/o Congressional approval, they'd have called him a dictator. No matter what he does, people like you would shout that he's wrong.</quote> I think I'd have supported him acting in Syria. I don't know. We intervened in Iraq and it's a mess. We haven't intervened in Syria and it's a mess. The Middle East, man...</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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