BastiatWashington Wrote: 36 minutes ago (3:40 PM)
you're wrong. Obama is willing to send troops hither and yon at the drop of a hat. Paul would go through the people, aka the Congress and rightly so.
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Bush went through Congress (aka the people) for both Afghanistan and Iraq. I will not fault Obama for continuing to fight in Afghanistan, pakistan and now Yemen because he has the Authority to do that. (I will fault him for his handling of Afghanistan)
He did not have authority for Lybia and he does not have authority for Syria
In a fast-changing world, a common mistake is to keep fighting the last war.
For example, why would Republicans support sending more troops to Afghanistan, when that war was long over, or helping topple Moammar Gadhafi, who had become an ally in the war on terrorism? Some Republicans seem to support all military deployments just out of habit.
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Where Shubi errs is in naming the power behind Obama's construction. That power is a name we seldom if ever hear in the press, but who is currently working behind the scenes with many we DO hear about (including your SDS/Weatherman/Code Pink/Occupy-types, your "global moneymen" types, your por-Caliphate types (especially within Iran, Egypt, and Turkey, but also including domestic groups like the Nation of Islam and their offshoot, the New Black Panthers), the whole "global socialist" movement, and many others.
Where Shubi errs is in naming the power behind Obama's construction. That power is a name we seldom if ever hear in the press, but who is currently working behind the scenes with many we DO hear about (including your SDS/Weatherman/Code Pink/Occupy-types, your "global moneymen" types, your por-Caliphate types (especially within Iran, Egypt, and Turkey, but also including domestic groups like the Nation of Islam and their offshoot, the New Black Panthers), the whole "global socialist" movement, and many others.