Cruise Missles anyone?

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Originally Posted by whell

Yup. Certainly in the Senate, Reid would have delivered the votes. The House would not have been a slam dunk by any stretch. But the Resolution was not a requirement for the use of force either. Certainly Senate and House Dems would have given Obama political cover of he had ordered strikes - plural - without the Resolution.

Perhaps. And it would have accomplished exactly as much as the recent strike - nothing but rearranging some rubble. It somehow makes us feel proud of our humanity without accomplishing a thing.

Syria was then and is now a client state of Russia. We shouldn't kid ourselves that we're capable of imposing our will there. We tried that in Iraq and we're still there without a damn thing to show for it other than a lot of spent blood and treasure. In fact, it was our Iraq misadventure that birthed this whole mess.