Holy crap! Not now. The schedule is way too long! I have never seen a war scheduled to start after congress comes back off vacation. Dang, it would be a bitch serving on those Destroyers trolling about off Syria. Assad has plenty of time now to buy some ship killer missiles, install them and test them on the US fleet at his leisure. About 50 fire at the 5 destroyers would most likely overwhelm their defensive systems. This is shear tactical brilliance on the part of a unique Commander in Chief, send the troops in to harms way and let them sit there until enemy come up with a way to kill them. No congressional approval required then!
The Aegis ships could go to "semi-automatic" mode and deal with a lot more than 50. It's just a matter of how many rounds you have left in the CIWS. And I'm going to go on a limb and say that if a ship's been sent into a potential combat zone, ammo is the one thing they're probably pretty ok on.
If it were that easy we wouldn't have a Navy. The individual or country that sold those missiles and Assad would very quickly be very very very dead.
I voted 'not sure' but would like to hear your take. Personally, I think it's warranted, but I just don't want to get involved. I'm really torn.
Stay out It's been encouraging reading that Obama will go to Congress instead of just foolishly striking Syria with no vote and basically no support, which is what looked like was going to happen. Give him a lot of credit for staying cool.
The vote is 4-7-2, when 9% of Americans want to go to war. Four-elevenths is 36%. What a right-wing board. Time for national polls to discover a "sudden change" in American opinion and start war fever.
These do good Progressive "Leaders" tugging on heart strings are sickening! All pumped an righteous to send American men and women to war over gasing a few kids in Syria. But every damn one of them will support butchering more babies everyday in every City in this country. Based on Principles? No that is political correctness run amok Appearances matter not Principles. Following Principles would have the US President and Congress adhering to the Constitution of this nation in which you would find no authority or guidance to Police the World nor mandated butchering children in this country. NATO or the UN or perhaps some other International Collision of States might police a the World or a part of it in which the US might participate. While at the same time the States of our nation might be left with the responsibility to look out for our children as you might deduce would be proper under the authority of the 10th amendment.
