If you were prez, how would YOU handle a warmonger contingent trying to gin up war? Discuss.

[reformist2]

There seems to be a lot of posts here concerned with whether Obama is "lying" or "telling the truth." I would suggest that it's a lot more complicated than that, if you entertain the notion that Obama doesn't really want to go to war.

[rucky]

1. I would call America "exceptional"

which really pissed me off, btw.

[SamKnause]

2. America

I agree.

I am so sick and tired of politicians and their constituents claiming the U.S. is exceptional.

Arrogance and war mongering.

2 for the price of one.

[SamKnause]

3. If

Tell the truth !!!!!!

This country is ready for the truth !!!!!

This country is ill from the lies.

This country is dying from within because of all the lies.

If our Commander in Chief and President of this country is afraid of the truth and fears telling the truth, he should resign.

If our enlisted men and women can put their lives on the line, that is the very least we should expect from those who send them into harms way.

We can not look forward until we hold those accountable for the past.

On January 21st, 2009 President Obama had the world at his feet.

He squandered the opportunity to change this country and the world.

[rock]

4. Have them all taken out and shot

(From Hitchhiker's Guide - and yeah, sarcasm)

[The Link]

5. Tell John Kerry to shut up and sit down.

[Shankapotomus]

6. I would offer up the idea

that the real issue is about keeping innocent non-combatants safe from the two warring factions in Syria. It's good Assad is under pressure from within. It's also good that terrorists are busy using their resources and focusing their attention on our enemy rather than on us. The longer they fight each other, the less they are attacking us.

What is NOT good is the death of innocent non-combatants and the threat chemical weapons poses to the region.

We should not contribute to the deaths of innocent non-combatants through air strikes. If war is an inconvienant entanglement we might as well forego the inconvenience of battle and just focus on the inconvenience of relocating any Syrians who want out of the combat zone. That way, we give a definate and productive response to the Syrian crisis without getting our hands bloody. Once everyone who wants out of harms way is out if the way, we can then think about how we want to deal with the chemical weapons issue knowing that the offer and relocation of innocents has been carried out.

[RobinA]

7. I Would Submit

to them a report of all the times Presidents have been ginned into war by a "warmonger contingent," complete with pictures, eventual sociopolitical outcome, and death toll from both sides. On the cover would be a picture of people evacuating the American embassy in Saigon from the roof into the waiting helocopter.

[Yo_Mama]

8. Well, first I'd look in the mirror and give myself a good talking to

Come on, now. President Obama is the one who started the push for armed intervention in Syria and his administration climbed into Libya.

You can disagree or agree with his policies, but you cannot claim that this poor guy is fighting a desperate battle to restrain warmongers.

[Sunlei]

9. criminal charges against any American who sold weapons to Syria, even if they used a middleman.

[sibelian]

10. It seems to me that each situation he faces is as complicated as it needs to be

To make him look cool.

Which seems oddly convenient.

Quite a lot of the world's problems are a good deal simpler than they look.