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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Devout Non-ideologue' Turns OBombardier
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Devout-Non-ideologue-Tur-by-Robert-S-Becker-Bombing_Bullying_Class_Commander-in-chief-130903-161.html'Devout Non-ideologue' Turns OBombardier
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/3/2013 at 14:15:49
By Robert S. Becker
If dramatic reversal matters, Obama's legacy headline as our first minority president is fast fading. Not when this one-time peacenik, alleged war skeptic, and Nobel Prize Winner in his second term turns moralistic warmonger with a vengeance. By what drone-assassination illogic does Obama propose to deter lawless, poison gas attacks with what fellow-hawk, John McCain, dismisses as a "pinprick" strike? What top foreign policy pro worth his yellowcake wouldn't rail against this triumph of empty symbolism over strategy? With or without reams of warning shots.
In a revealing act of pathos and descent to the dark side, Obama now entreats McCain -- among our most discredited washouts, who never met a war he didn't like -- for political, if not military advice. By what reason does Obama the drone master turn crusading, high-risk bombardier? Is McCain, or Speaker Boehner, the redemptive venue by which Obama escapes his own rash mouthiness about "red lines" on poison gas?
Let me get this: our wariest, pragmatist-in-chief, the cautious-to-a-fault "devout non-ideologue," singles out Syria as the moral hill he wants to die. Then, displaying real class when pushed to win Congressional support, he declares in advance no commander-in-chief is beholden to representative government. Is the Obama bubble so thick no White House staffer dares mention the implicit and explicit, massive moral contradictions?
How can a poll-driven politician halfway to lame duckery, despite months of noise-making on Syria, start another war without having corralled backup? After all, only vast throngs of Americans refuse to touch Syria with an aluminum tube. Perhaps like Nixon, Obama has a secret, anti-gassing peace plan so undercover it's not yet born. At this rate Obama places Dubya's throne as reigning national nincompoop in some jeopardy.
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'Devout Non-ideologue' Turns OBombardier (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2013
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bemildred
(90,061 posts)1. He seems annoyed. nt
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)2. As am I. n/t
newfie11
(8,159 posts)6. Me too!!!! Nt
Robb
(39,665 posts)3. It's his gig.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)4. He does a good job on the wingnut babble vendors there.
I was amused to learn that E. J. Dionne is an Obama apologist, too. But hey ...
We have for so long lived immersed in bullshit that I can now eat it and drink it, and breath it if necessary.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)5. My favorite ...
Why does the wife of America's First Father think of herself as a single-mom?