Official: White House seeks Syria response 'just muscular enough not to get mocked'

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[wafflehouse]

[apillar]

If I owned a Syrian aspirin or baby food factory, I would take a few days offf.....

[Nifster]

And this idiot and all those around him, have miscalculated. The Russians and the Iranians will make O regret ever having done anything

[1rudeboy]

Look out. Looks like Obama is really steamed . . . about the rodeo clown-thing.

[altsehastiin]

Committing a small act of war is like being “just a little bit pregnant.” Has anyone done the calculus to ask what a lone Syrian agent might do to this country in retaliation? If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the U.S. with the same weaponry? We know that DHS has no plans to seal our borders. What makes you think this of any concern to them? Another domestic terrorist attack would justify all sorts of increases to the federal government's domestic security apparatus, just like it did last time. Do you think the country would be complaining about drones or NSA surveilance if such an attack were to happen here?

[MattinNJ]

Is this satire?

[Billthedrill]

I get it - it’s all about nuance. We only want to kill just enough people to boost 0bama’s poll numbers. Theirs, ours, it really doesn’t matter.

[Da Coyote]

Is there no limit to the incompetency of the Obamadork & crew?

(This is a self-answering question.)

[austinaero]

“West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade.”

I heard Dmitri is working on a spoof of a Peter Gabriel song,,but the new song will be called “Mock the Monkey”

may catch on

[ken in texas]

Now back to vacation planning.

Or to a quiet room to play spades with Reggie.

[RightGeek]

[Sergio]

“just muscular enough not to get mocked” ... unbelievable.

[kidd]

Obama-tized patriots, throughout history:

Bunker Hill, 1775, General William Prescott: “Don’t shoot too much after they make a remark about the whites of your eyes!”

North Africa, 1943, General George Patton, ““No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by avoiding criticism.”

Moon, 1969, Neil Armstrong: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. And stop making fun of the way I walk.”

[central_va]

1776 Virginia: “Give me liberty or give me a tax break.”
Patrick Henry

[Pecos]

Please note that I never said that the president or anyone in his staff would consider a violent act against the U.S. to be a bad thing. When I used the word “anyone”, I was thinking that there may, just may, be someone with cajones still on staff in the Pentagon. I should have been more specific. Apologies.

[VerySadAmerican]

If this country was still “America” a president would have been run out of office for doing something like this. Fire some missiles and kill some people just to look tough.

[VerySadAmerican]

We have to realize that when Obama talked about a “red line” he knew, or should have known, Assad would say “I’m color blind.”

[grania]

If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the US with the same weaponry?

You talk sense. Bombing Syria is a lose-lose situation. If it were the Syrian leadership using chemical weapons on their homelands, surely they'd be willing to use them on us. The other possibility (probability IMHO) is that it was the rebels. If we punish the Syrian gov't for using weapons they haven't used, isn't it a logical conclusion for them to use them?....let the crime fit the punishment.

Another thought: If Obama bombs Syria, what's to stop the rebels from using these weapons in the US and blaming the Syrian government? We'd already be partway down the slippery slope.

[Veto!]

Everyone knows that it's a good idea to shake a hornets' nest just enough to make a strong statement, n'est ce pas?

Apparently there were no hornet's nests in Nigeria, so how could Barry get the message?

[boxlunch]

He’s not incompetent. He is evil.