War is easy to get into but hard to get out of

I have to commend President Obama for considering that war is easy to get into but hard to get out of.  His going to Congress and now considering Russia advising it's client state to remove tactically useless weapons from the scene all come from a wariness of pulling the trigger.

Consider how Lyndon Johnson's legacy was destroyed by huffing and puffing a Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through Congress for a limited response to an unclear attack that morphs into a protracted war with fifty thousand American and untold Vietnamese dead for what we now consider a mistake.

Syria's Assad deconstructs Charlie Rose

al-Assad may not be likable, but he appears to be rational and realistic. I can't say the same for our side, Secretary of State Kerry in particular.

Media Research Center - What a FOX hole!

I just spotted an "I am Against Liberal Media Bias" bumper sticker that on a google search shows itself to be from Media Research Center. You go MRC. Keep on scamming the ignorant people.

As for bumper stickers, nothing beats "Give Peas a Chance"

On Syria Vote, Trust but Verify

Florida Democrat Representative Alan Grayson's editorial in today's New York Times hit's hard on classified information.  When I accuse the NSA of calling Diane Feinstein a dumb bitch it is because they are using her.  She relays everything the intelligence community wants us to believe and thereby gives it her blessing.  If I were in Representative Grayson's shoes I would resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee and be free to declare what BS the CIA is delivering.

Syria - Barack! Please, stay cool man.

I am in complete agreement with President Obama's restraint on Syria.  I wish he hadn't set up the chemical warfare trip wire.  Secretary of State John Kerry's assertion that the odious Assad regime is responsible for this past weekend's hideous attack on civilians could be a chess move that only the gullible fall for.  I am prepared to put a high probability factor toward defecting army officers setting up the regime.  Think about who wins when the United States takes an action that is tantamount to a declaration of war.  I believe it is those wishing for chaos.  Barack!  Please, stay cool man.

September 1 Postscript

Obama Seeks Approval by Congress is the headline I wanted.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  I wish these decisions for war were more often referred to the Congress as the Constitution declares it should be, none the less Barack you are a good man.  This rush to war has the feel of Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August, and a time out to to consider an irreversible course toward death and despair is healthy and necessary.

Teach your Children Well

"I've given up on politics," Mr. Bottum said, as we sat on his wide porch after lunch.  "I'll vote Republican because I am a Republican.  But I don't believe a change in culture can come from politics. It can only come with re-enchantment with the world."

Bingo! This blog's point exactly.  Using politics to change culture is authoritarian and not persuasive. In order for the Republican Party to get off it's intolerant exclusionary suicide trip, it needs to back off legislating morals and concentrate on persuasion. Isn't that what Evangelicals do well?

Diane Feinstein is a NSA Mouthpiece

Reading today's "N.S.A. Said to Have Paid E-Mail Providers Millions" is just one in many instances where Senator Diane Feinstein is putting her reputation on the line for a rogue intelligence agency. How can she say that there has been roughly one instance per year where an agent has willfully broken surveillance rules? Really? It's not hard to imagine the NSA folks laughing at the credulity of the dumb bitch.