Foreign Policy Follies

These days, the political norm in our nation's capitol is that Democrats and Republicans are in a state of perpetual opposition on everything.  They can't even agree on what friggin' day it is.  But give them the prospect of lighting up another country with a few cruise missiles, and suddenly they're all holding hands and singing Kum-Ba-Yah together.

A large majority of Americans want nothing to do with a military strike against Syria, but the D.C. politicians are banging the drum about "strong intelligence" and "irrefutable evidence" of "a violation of international law" that has "crossed the red line" and demands a "shot across the bow".  We must "send a clear message" to Syria that their "behavior will not be tolerated" and so a "limited surgical strike" is called for to "degrade their capabilities" because the "cost of inaction" could worse than the alternative.  Of course, "there will be no boots on the ground".

It sounds just like the rhetoric from Dubya, the Dick, Rummy and all the other neocon nitwits 11-12 years ago in the run-up to Iraq.

And it sure looks like we're gonna stick our dick in the hornet's nest again.  What's the worst that could happen?