“I think it’s more ideal to be a Republican Member of Congress, you get all the perks with none of the responsibility, you can just whine and bitch the whole time.”
I should have responded to that part of Bolton’s statement because I didn’t agree with it. I’m not sure it matters -— Dem or Repub. I have thought that once Obama turned his and Cameron’s humiliating defeats into a win/win for him by following Cameron’s example and taking the issue to Congress, pretending the Constitution or Congress mattered to him, he put himself into a win/win position.
Now Congress and its members are playing on his field. Blaming and shifting blame is his second talent. Lying is his first.
That talent will also come in handy if Obama decides a “limited strike” won’t save enough face or shift the balance of power.
Remember the insistence/drum beat that there will be “no boots on the ground”? I can’t find the link but I have already seen an Obama plan that would send special forces into Syria to secure chemical weapons! Insane!
No matter what limitations Congress puts on Obama’s war, once they vote “yea,” it will be an open-ended war to do with as he sees personally/politically fit. Syria has become very personal to Obama, and that is dangerous for us.
Once the first missile launches, events are beyond your control.