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Originally Posted by billethkid
throughout this thread there has been good discussion and expression oe personal views and opinions on Obama seeking congressional approval.
There have been some refernces to waiting until congress gets back and isn't that too long to wait, etc.
Here is a link to two contrasting videos of Obama this week, the first one stating he did not create the so called "red line". The second one when he did in fact specifically create the red line to be crossed with military options at his disposal....
Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria | The Weekly Standard
. OVER A YEAR AGO!!!!!!
And now we sit waiting weeks and months after the chemicals have been used......really?
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BTK....I share your frustration on this. The road to get where we are today is loaded with so much lack of interest and mis judgement, it is difficult to get by what some folks would call political. I call the last weeks actions political for sure...I call the prior action or inaction to be..well, wrong.
Speaking in the arena of foreign affairs, I do not understand what our policy is, or what we are doing. From yesterdays hearing, I do not think many understand. We have gone from imminent bombing to congress making the call (that is what I referred to earlier as political), in hours actually. If we and our congress are confused..think of the world. We have gone from ignoring prior chemical attacks to needing action now....we are still stumbling, as they referred to during the hearing, on even getting help to the rebels, and we still are unsure about who those rebels are.
If you read, the world is confused by what is our policy and that is a recipe for disaster on a international scale. It is, to me, as if we just woke up and discovered what is actually going on in the world.
The move to congress was purely political in my mind...the policy is muddled, at best, but I do think we need to pass something and support the President. Hopefully if we get through this, he will begin to listen to those who understand the world and develop a foreign policy that makes some sense to us and the world.
I guess I am saying that I, for what it is worth, am against this action because as defined it makes no sense and the route to get here is so fuzzy and mixed up along with the fact that a NO vote will create more political rancor here at home, which I suppose was the intent.
Therefore, while I am against this kind of bombing (McCain makes more sense to me), I think we should be aware that our rep worldwide is and has been hit hard and to not support the President would just make that worse.