I Try to Be Good

I do want to support President Obama in effectively fighting Assad. If we can't find/create some acceptable rebels to arm to harm our enemy Assad, why do we have a huge intelligence budget? So if I seem like I delight in the president's flip flop on action compared to Iraq, please excuse me as someone who suffered from insufferable left-wing moral superiority over the Iraq War.

So case in point. I know the Obama administration is guaranteeing that any authorization to use force over Syria doesn't include efforts at regime change or boots on the ground.

I already noted the boots loophole.

But about that guarantee on regime change. Let's remember that President Obama promised the international community no regime change in Libya when the UN Security Council authorized a no-fly zone over Libya. That is, we were supposed to simply keep Libyan government planes from bombing rebels or civilians.

Before the ink was dry on that UN resolution, we were providing air support to rebels seeking to overthrow the Khadaffi government. Khadaffi died at the end of that war, a rebels put him out of the world's misery.

And as bonus material, remember how anti-Iraq War types loved to complain about Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld speaking ill of Saddam Hussein in 2003 by showing pictures of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam in the 1980s?

How could Rumsfeld want to wage war on Saddam when he was once a friend! The fraud of it all!

Never mind that Saddam was at least fighting a greater enemy, Iran under the mullahs, and we did the grown up thing to keep the worst side from winning that war.

So my question is when do the Syria hawks John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi get the Rumsfeld treatment with pictures of them chatting it up with Boy Assad?

Good grief, we could have pictures of Pelosi in proper Islamic-friendly head garb!

Shocking, right?

Maybe liberals will have a little more respect for the difficult choices President George W. Bush had to make after they've walked a couple Obama wars in the former president's shoes.

So how's that glorious international community, these days?

Well, I'm alright, I guess.