The Obama Administration can’t seem to get support from just about anyone in its quest to slap Bashar Assad around, but that’s not stopping them from maintaining a smug, arrogant attitude about the situation.
It seems to also be trickling down to the supporters they do have on Capitol Hill, particularly Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), who acknowledged that what she hears from her constituents is overwhelmingly against launching the attack. So that’s influencing her thinking, right?
No, silly. Here’s what she says: “There’s no question, what’s coming in is overwhelmingly negative. But you see, then, they don’t know what I know.”
Ah. I suppose the same is true of those voters who gave John McCain an earful at his recent town hall meeting. They just don’t know what he knows.
Who else doesn’t know? The British, who go with us on just about everything, must not know either because they’re not on board. If the initial whip count is correct, more than half of Congress must not know.
Other than the French, who among the international community is really behind this? I guess they don’t know either. Private intelligence sources and experts must not know, since they view John Kerry’s claim that moderates are gaining strength in Syria as quite the stretch.
We all understand the horror of what Bashar Assad has done. That is not in question. The question is, what are we actually going to accomplish with this limited, “no boots on the ground” operation in which we slap Assad upside the head but don’t really leave any of the facts on the ground unchanged?
No one has answered that question, which is precisely why the American people, the British Parliament, most of Congress, the people at John McCain’s town hall and the people calling Dianne Feinstein are saying, “No way!”
Oh, by the way, Kerry got awfully upset the other day when a Republican congressman brought up Benghazi. He doesn’t think we should be talking about that. Benghazi happened almost a year ago and we still haven’t gotten truthful answers from the Obama Administration as to way. When Obama, Kerry, Feinstein and the like tell us that we should support them because we don’t know what they know, what they’re really saying is, “Trust us.”
Because of Benghazi and so many other things that have happened under this president, the American people are saying, “Hell no!”
