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Watching the news shows. It's still all about the Paris attacks and what ought to be done. People apparently want Obama to change gears into Rambo mode. He has refused to do so.
A good line: "President Obama is commander-in-chief, but he is not very commanding."
A cool hand sounds good to me. Playing cowboy may always look and feel good at the beginning, but after the first few hundred casualties and the first few billion dollars, it becomes wearisome quick, to watch our country flailing again in another quagmire. Listening to our Republican candidates, if they had their way, it would be World War Three already. I cannot help wondering if Obama is hoping that the reinvigorated air of post-9/11 might simply die down of its own accord in a few weeks, provided that there are no major attacks to fuel that fear and rage.
We cannot afford to let the terrorists succeed in turning this into a full-scale clash of civilizations. We cannot fight a war against a non-country. That would be like fighting a ghost. You cannot win, but you might be able to lose.
A good line: "President Obama is commander-in-chief, but he is not very commanding."
A cool hand sounds good to me. Playing cowboy may always look and feel good at the beginning, but after the first few hundred casualties and the first few billion dollars, it becomes wearisome quick, to watch our country flailing again in another quagmire. Listening to our Republican candidates, if they had their way, it would be World War Three already. I cannot help wondering if Obama is hoping that the reinvigorated air of post-9/11 might simply die down of its own accord in a few weeks, provided that there are no major attacks to fuel that fear and rage.
We cannot afford to let the terrorists succeed in turning this into a full-scale clash of civilizations. We cannot fight a war against a non-country. That would be like fighting a ghost. You cannot win, but you might be able to lose.
