To bomb or not to bomb

English: Barack Obama delivering his electoral victory speech on Election Night ´08, in Grant Park, Chicago. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I almost feel sorry for President Obama, except that his fiddling while Syria burned brought this newest foreign policy dilemma on our Nation.

At this point its hell if he does and hell if he doesn’t with no win, win available to any of the participants, least of all the US and Israel. At least the Iraq war did get rid of a cruel despot who we know bombed his own people with gas. I don’t so much care about this President saving face, but I do care that he doesn’t do anything to exacerbate the risks the US now faces because of the uprisings in the Mid East. We have ridden in this rodeo before and without much success to brag about.

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