Adds Buchanan (link below): "Who deputized the United States to walk the streets of the world pistol-whipping bad actors? Where does our imperial president come off drawing 'red lines' and ordering nations not to cross them?"
Under the familiar dubious pretense of "weapons of mass destruction" and the allegation that Syrian dictator Assad himself ordered a gas attack on Syrian rebels and civilians (even though it would have been completely against his interests to do so), Obama is once again preparing to Go Libya and flex his neoconservative, W Bush-Light muscles by attacking Syria to accomplish the unstated neocon goal of regime change (or, at the very least, the goal of making a political statement that no one crosses Obama once he draws a red line!).
An American attack on Syria would now seem inevitable, but I hope it isn't. The United States has no business getting involved in foreign wars and military incursions (even if "only" short-term bombing is initially involved) unless it's absolutely necessary. And attacking Syria (which risks a much broader war or military conflict bringing in Iran, Hezbollah and Israel) sure as hell ain't that.
Buchanan, BTW, may be a devoted right-winger with whom I've often disagreed on many things, but he's always been consistent on this point regardless of the letter next to the president's name: You don't involve the American military abroad unless such a course of action (unlike attacking Syria) is vital to American interests. I can recall, for example, Buchanan's opposition (along with that old walking sarcophagus, Bob Novak) to both old man Bush's Persian Gulf War in 1990 and W Bush's terrible, ill-conceived and lie-premised Iraq War in the 2000s.
If Obama does attack, I'll be very curious to see how muted and silent of a response we'll hear from the leftist 20 percenters -- who typically (and hypocritically) only raise a ruckus over such things when the president has an "R" next to his name. I do expect a few of them will be intellectually honest and voice their opposition to a Syrian attack, but I ain't counting on too many of them acting like that -- ya know, like decent human beings and all.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/congress-should-veto-obamas-war/
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