Might get a Wag the Dog slam response as well. Risky.
Why would they suppose this would HELP Obama? His base isn’t gung ho military...they might defend it, but it won’t make them run out to vote. It won’t change any minds on the right....they think bombing something is going to help with Indies?
I think it is more likely they’ll think he is trying to invent a surprise to overshadow the ECONOMY
If this election was about foreign policy, National security..maybe...but it isn’t.
“Might get a Wag the Dog slam response as well. Risky.”
I agree. I believe most will believe that Obama is doing it for political reasons if that should occur. I think that will backfire on him big time. Now the Obamaphone lady and her ilk will believe anything he says.
Mitt could offer some preemptive leverage by citing 'war mongering' 0bama's bombing of Libya without Congressional approval. Mitt could say, "What gives you a right to war on other countries without any input from our Congress? You did that in Libya and what did we get out of it?.. Four dead Americans."
Romney needs to remind Americans during the debate that the POTUS must not engage in any wars without approval from Congress!
No way they do this. The voters are not stupid enough to accept any military action a week before the election as being anything but an act of desparation. It’s not like there’s a bin Laden out there that everyone wants dead. We don’t even know who was behind Benghazi and now that the claim is that the attack was NOT preplanned it would be hard to blame someone for planning it. As for Iran, think back to Desert Storm. As good as we were, Hussein was still able to pump scuds into Israel and Saudi. A one or two day raid into Iran will accomplish nothing except getting a lot of people killed and getting oil to skyrocket. This aint happening!
So a risk they’d likely take only if they think they’d lose otherwise.
I believe Obama will try to pull something—maybe cancel the election! He will do anything to win—I believe he could try any desperate act.