Democrats don't have to listen.
They already know what the party line is.
I had no idea Thomas Sowell is 84 years old.
First, nothing O says has any relationship to the truth. It isn’t true, it isn’t untrue, it is completely unmoored from truth. Any relation to truth is tangential and accidental.
We are at war because they are at war with us. Like it or not, admit it or not, respond effectively or not, they have announced war and are busily pursuing it.
As for “boots on the ground” (I am so tired of that shopworn phrase), he says there will be none, just as he says there will be no war though we are already at war.
But there are already “boots on the ground” and there will be more before we are done. He will just not define them as “boots” or he will not define them as being “on the ground”. No one will call him on it. Not the press, not the GOP, no one. Still, they will be there and if we are successful, he’ll take credit. If we are not successful, he’ll blame Bush or claim it never happened. And again, no one will call him on it.
That was news to me but I haven't been watching the Ken Burns series. FDR's "day of infamy" speech was delivered to Congress on December 8, the day after the attack. Does Burns really imply that FDR was at a loss what to do and went to Shangri-La? I figure he might try to use the series to help Obama, but that might be going a bit too far.
As usual, Sowell gets it right. Since the Vietnam War, we have let politicians run wars based on public opinion. Idiots like Jane Fonda, John Kerry, and other traitors at that time cost thousands of American lives by letting amateurs run the war. War is a crappy enterprise; one to end as quickly as possible. Politicians who write Rules of Engagement that don't allow our troops to defend themselves without approval of some political hack sitting in a golf cart half a world away are killing our brave men and women. Let the generals run the war and save American lives. Let the MSM get the real story, not something staged by the other side. ISIS is killing Americans and so are US politicians. Both need to be stopped.
But some are, and ultimately you cannot win unless popular opinion backs it, at least not a long war. Americans want our wars to be short. Get in, destroy the enemy and leave. No nation building. Colin Powell's "Pottery Barn Rule" (you broke it, you bought it) is BS. If someone forces us to go clean their clocks it's their fault, and not our responsibility to turn the place into something decent.
Who wants war? Islam.
For over 1500 years they’ve been bringing it.
We paid over 10 percent of the US GDP for several decades (look into the Barbary wars) to muslims, and we pay them every day we don’t just lay waste to every command and control center in the country (C&CC = “mosque”).
Islam. It’s not a religion, it’s a political system masquerading as a religion to take advantage of our sensibilities/sensitivity and First Amendment, and they won’t stop.
War isn’t the answer? You haven’t asked the right question.
Floundering by Obama is a productive tactic, from the viewpoint of ISIS.