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Come on, guys, we picked people we trust to do the work of Congress.
Ha! if that is meant to be humor, it is not funny !!
Why, thank you for thinking me a humorist, Mr. numan.
I'm too simple for that. I genuinely think that given the opportunity and the incentive, human beings will rise to their best.
Unless you're sitting next to the president right now and have his ear, we do not know what he knows. We only know he has John Kerry who is known to say or do anything to avoid war pleading for it.
It's all a big conundrum to me, and I'm not psychic, able to see the future, nor predict the rain. I'm just with others in hoi polloi. All I can do is plead with my fellow posters to wait, let Congress and the President pull their mutual facts together, and then decide.
The alternative to not trusting the people we voted in Congress is to jump in the middle of this sans facts and start swinging haymakers and epithets at one another. I consider such behavior not an option. But our immediate parents and grandparents, and even great grandparents at this late date, came together after the events of Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941, and decided that the Japanese attempt to destroy the Pacific Fleet in an all-out war when we were trying to mind our own business and stay out of the conflict was not an option after such an affront, and from what I understand from my mother, who was in or near her senior year in high school around the same time, some of her schoolmates left school immediately and jammed the Army recruitment offices before they graduated, many lying about their own age so they could help put an end to the killing of Americans who were simply defending merchant ships from the attacks of military ship units whose mission was shoot to kill, no matter what flag flew over the cargo ships.
The point is, Americans from top to bottom were concerned when Pearl Harbor was not respected in its mission of mercy to cargo ships that had always in peace time brought prosperity and peace to our shores. Our parents' lives were changed by that act, and we gave it our best shot.
Since I do not know the facts on the table of intelligence an American President and his staff would be privy to, I have no choice but to hope and pray Congress have done their jobs, even as hard as it must be to balance down time with their home constituents and volumes of reading and contacting people that they have to do in order to stay informed.
We really have no choice but to give them some rope, sort out the facts, and choose to discuss the many facets of action or inaction with regard to Syria.
It's not a good time to wig out regurgitating differences, it's a time to be patient and hear all sides. If Obama can convince knowledgable Senators and Congresspersons his actions will result in positives for America they will act in his favor. If he starts out each message with the kind of rhetoric we far to often hear on this level, he will be cut off from consideration.
Too many screams at a ball game interferes with play, and it leaves referees waging penalties on the team whose crowd disables play. If Russia's new base in Venezuela becomes a missile launching site, we're just as at risk as we were on September 11, 2001. Not everyone was sympathetic that we lost the World Trade Center's thousands and the Pentagon's hundreds, not to mention the hellish rides passengers on four jetliners saw as their last memory of this earth.
Our Congress has a tough call next week. The only right thing we can do is let them make that call with the facts that are found and whether the losses we can expect are worth going to war to stop another Holocaust in the Middle East. They know the treatment our nation has received and who we received it from. It's Congress' decision. We need to stand down on the rhetoric pages so they can better see details and issues they must face before agreeing to or turning away from lobbing missiles at a very pissed-off dictatorial regime.
If you want to jump up and down, scream and holler, that's your business, or to decimate the character of people on both sides as your rise to the top of the pundit heap.
Frankly, I don't give a damn about ambitious fellows who think putting others down for their own uppance is desirable.
I do give a damn about Congress making a good decision based on their intelligence gathering efforts, and I think the uninformed American is well-advised to stand down, leave well enough alone, and pray for those who were voted in by us to do the job they're faced with.
I know there are a few people here who have unbelievable mental skills of recall, of logic, and of photographic memories. Sure wish they were up there in Congress. But some of our Congresspersons also possess such skills or have lists of people whom they can depend upon for details that others may have forgotten. Let Congress do their thing.
Character sliming right now is the wrong thing to do.
Letting Congressmen and Senators do their job is the right thing to do.
I have every faith they'll do their best.
If they review the facts and decide we cannot act because we have too much going on on the streets of America, they may have to live with the consequences of a Middle East empowered to murder masses of Americans with the same gases Assad used on dissidents there. If they decide we must go to war, we could well find ourselves under attack due to the failure to communicate stoppage to hatemongers of America like Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Chavez, and drug cartels since the 60s where a million people died every decade from selective murder by drug bullies and their patsies.
There is a price to pay for weakness at the top.
