Obama doesn’t get to say he is tired of war

Washington Post ^ | 13 Sep 13 | Eliot Cohen

[elhombrelibre]

It is the phrase of the moment, dropping from the lips of television reporters and radio commentators, salting the columns of pundits, earnestly being spoken by furrow-browed politicians of serious mien.

The families of the fallen are entitled to war-weariness. So are those wounded in body or spirit, and their loved ones. The mother who has sent her son to war has a right to war-weariness, as does the father who prepares to send his daughter to battle again and again. But for the great mass of the American public, for their leaders and the elites who shape public opinion, “war-weariness” is unearned cant, unworthy of a serious nation and dangerous in a violent world.

[KeyLargo]

Obama is now agreeing to Putin Demands:

Must see video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE

[Starboard]

No one has raised our taxes to pay for war. Americans can change the channel if they find the images too disturbing

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Evidently Mr. Cohen doesn't recognize the economic burden of endless wars. We have expended horrific amounts of blood and treasure over the past twelve years. This can't go on and the Syria mess threatens to drag us into an ever wider conflict.

[ClearCase_guy]

Obama is a pure politician -- the only things he knows how to say and things which "sound good". He speaks in cliche and pablum and never has anything of real substance to communicate.

Let's build roads and bridges.
We care about our children.
Green energy.
We're tired of war.

Does he actually think he's saying anything? Because he isn't.

[elhombrelibre]

I don’t believe his point is that you must be for war, even this one. I think his point is that war weariness is more than a figure of speech. It’s the fatigue of battle, not a policy dispute, or annoyance with an inconvenience.

[Iron Munro]

[Farnsworth]

“But President Obama knew he was going to be a war president; if that duty was too trying for him, he should not have run for reelection”

I would say election and reelection, but the boy king wanted and got all the perks of being president, he's not mentally mature to know that all those nice taxpayer paid perks come with strings...

He sucks as a leader, he is a poor excuse for a man and a slime ball of a human.

[elhombrelibre]

He’s a fraud, basically.

[Romulus]

the father who prepares to send his daughter to battle

No country that abuses women by sending them to fight and kill deserves to survive.