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Showing Original Post only (View all)Syria isn't about money or corporations or the MIC. [View all]
It's pure, naked, unvarnished American Presidential Dick-Swinging. Reagan did it, Clinton did it, both Bushes did it. It is bipartisan.
Obama said where his red line was, he thinks they crossed it, and he will look like a wuss if he doesn't crack skulls. Period. Paragraph.
Everyone else is just along for the ride. If he attacks, he will literally be doing Al Qaeda a favor. But that doesn't matter, since dick-swinging is the rationale for any attack.
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On Neo-DU, the obvious complexity of Syria is being used to trash Democrats... First and often.
tridim
Aug 2013
#10
Well, one side has chemical weapons and the rockets that were used to deploy them
jeff47
Aug 2013
#30
Being "tough" on bogeymen got us glorious wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan...
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2013
#12