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[sui generis]

The real truth of the matter is even if Obama WERE a hawk and we had brazillions of extra dollars and manpower laying around idle, going to war with a third Islamic country for any reason would ratchet up risk of an enormous economic and policy backlash on the world stage.

War is the very last measure of enforcement in foreign policy dispute, with foreign policy interests being defined primarily as our economic interests.

So, without a real economic interest to preserve (or teary flag and heart clutching Americans spurred to war by our braindead media), we really DON'T have an excuse to exercise the last measure first. The first measure is and always has been diplomacy, followed by sanctions, embargoes, ultimatums and "war" only at the very last point of escalation.

Are you still a dingbat? :P