[FreeAtlanta]

I think it is has more weight than speculation.

Democrats have shown that they believe that the military and war is only for political gain at home. They attack Republicans for using the military in legitimate causes, then they turn around and use it in unnecessary causes to try to bolster their polls.

I suspect it won’t work this time. America is war weary, and needs a break. If Obama gets us into a big war with Iran, it might backfire. If it grows into a war with Russia and China, it won’t even matter.

I wish we had an adult administration. Bush spent way too much money, but I felt comfortable with him in these situations. With Obama, I am terrified.

[nathanbedford]

Let us proceed from a assumption easy to make, that Obama will proceed as cynically as Macchiavelli. If he can contrive to have the Iranians attempt to shut down the straits of Hormuz or withhold petroleum exports, he can act militarily with more than mere aerial strikes, he can put Marines ashore around the streets of Hormuz explaining that he wants to protect the straits "in depth." We now have boots on the ground without actually invading the interior of overran where we are bombarding daily.

With boots on the ground, even confined to the area around straits, we have the honor and patriotism of the country invested. He can argue that he is fighting to keep gasoline prices down.

Obama's trick will be to time the action precisely so that his wave of support crests on November 3. After that, he need not involve us in a war in which he has no interest in winning much less waging. He wants countries like Iran to be counterpoints to the world's sole remaining superpower so he is really indifferent to Iran getting the bomb. Troops would be easy to withdraw from that place and the long war avoided.

[Carriage Hill]

“With Obama, I am terrified.”

You and a couple of hundred million other Americans, FA.