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SkynyrdRocker posted...

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...

I still think the best way to handle the Middle East is to just let them fight each other, only stepping in to protect vulnerable minority populations, like the Yazidi (sorry if I spelled that wrong).

I remember when a community of Yazidi Christians were trapped on some mountain by ISIS, and we did end up helping them. But stuff like that... Bomb the ever loving shit out of ISIS when they march towards that mountain. They head Assad's way...do nothing to them. Guide them, let them figure out the path of least resistance.