Looks like somebody in the White House, perhaps Valerie Jarrett or other advisor, went down the presidential accomplishment list while the incumbent was out playing golf and realized that “Nation's Bombed” wasn’t checked off.
An error like that certainly couldn’t be tolerated, whereas even mild-mannered Willy tried to look tough when he destroyed the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, North Sudan in 1998.
That too was a long-range missile attack that killed one employee and wounded eleven others.
Reasons given for justifying the attack included, retaliation for the 1998 bombings against the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, alleged ties between the owners of the plant and al-Qaeda, and most importantly, alleged use of the factory for the processing of VX nerve agent.
While there didn’t seem to be any direct U.S. gain from the action, it was estimated that up to tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians died throughout that nation as the supply of necessary drugs was cut off.
Similarly today, while another incumbent’s extremely weak on foreign matters and looking lost and confused, Stephen Dinan, reports on washingtontimes.com news that: "Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, said Tuesday that members of Congress who refused to authorize retaliatory strikes against Syria would be responsible when the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad gasses its citizens or when North Korea or Iran attempts to use nuclear weapons.”
On the other side, Senator Bob Corker, key Republican in the negotiations, stated that: “Our negotiations have led to a much narrower authorization that provides for the appropriate use of force while limiting the scope and duration of military action, prohibiting boots on the ground, and requiring the Obama administration to submit their broader plan for Syria.”
In other words, the strike will do almost nothing, if anything at all, regarding the war.
In other words, the strike will do almost nothing, if anything at all, regarding the war.
So here it seems we have the same costly farce Willy staged in 1988. Millions will be spent, resources will be wasted, time will be taken from other serious matters actually affecting the nation which this one does not, and its all being done to create a tough “presidential” image that doesn’t even exist.
In that regard, as strange as it seems the best explanation came from apologist Chris Matthews.
According to Larry O'Connor of Breitbart via Drudge, Matthews appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday morning “to analyze the political ramifications of the congressional debate to support President Obama's call for a military strike against Syria.
Matthews said the President had put the Democrats in congress in a "wicked position" forcing them to support the president even if they may genuinely oppose the military action.”
Matthews said the President had put the Democrats in congress in a "wicked position" forcing them to support the president even if they may genuinely oppose the military action.”
Matthews went on, “I think the Democrats are going to be forced to sacrifice men and women who really, really don’t want to vote for this. They’re going to have to vote for it to save the president’s hide. That’s a bad position to put your party in.”
Summing it all up then, the situation not only seems pretty consistent to me, its now even acknowledged by hard-core believers like Matthews that for the incumbent, his image is all that counts regardless of cost. Which leads me to ask just how weak, fearful, spineless and stupid Dem’s actually are. Because if those in Congress are supposedly the best of the lot, the rest must be totally pathetic to the core.
But, then again, we have the other side where according to Washington Post photographer, Melina Mara, as the war hearings continued she spotted Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona “passing the time by playing poker on his iPhone during the hearing.”
So now we can all see how important the issue really is to him too.
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