horse of george

"... sorry, but you cannot have a forceful foreign policy, in this case as involves Syria, when you don't have as it were a forceful president to lead it... this president as a matter of core ideological conviction believes that the true best calling, least evil role for the US military in the world is to be using drones to blow up putative bad guys racing down dirty streets on motorcycles and aside from that in general to be humbly, apologetically standing back to lead UN sponsored good causes from behind... all this debate about how ambitious our Syria policy should be is beside the point because even if Obama were to step out of character and agree to something like that he's probably the last president you'd want running such an endeavor... the only version of American power that Obama and his ilk can tolerate is one tethered to the confused and enervating sympathies of the world community and the incoherent bleatings of liberal idealism... but unfortunately for us and the rest of the free world the realities of geopolitics guarantee that if you're America trouble is gonna come knocking at your door and pretending it isn't there is simply not an option..."