Here are my brief thoughts on Barack Obama's speech on Syria on the eve of 9/11.
Obama said:
In that time, America's worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition, and to shape a political settlement, but I have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Obama, when it comes to the Syrian rebels, they are anything but moderate. And when it comes to fighting someone else's civil war, you did so in Libya.
Speaking on chemical weapons, Mr. Obama said:
Because these weapons can kill on a mass scale, with no distinction between soldier and infant, the civilized world has spent a century working to ban them.
My comment to that is, killing babies with gas is unacceptable, however abortion, even with the baby out of the womb, is just fine with you.
Twice he called America a democracy, even describing us as "the world's oldest constitutional democracy." To be exact Mr. Constitutional Professor, we are a constitutional republic.
Mr. Obama later said:
I believe that America acts more effectively abroad when we stand together .
You didn’t believe that when Bush was President and we were at war.
He then patronizes Americans with this statement:
It's no wonder then that you're asking hard questions.
Mr. Obama, these are not hard questions. They are logical and legitimate. Okay, for you that makes them hard. Carry on!
Then speaking on pinpricks, Mr. Obama said:
Let me make something clear: The United States military doesn't do pinpricks. Even a limited strike will send a message to Assad that no other nation can deliver.
Mr. Obama, I can think of at least 8 NATO allies, plus France, who are capable of doing limited and targeted strikes.
Next was this doozy of a statement:
We learned from Iraq that doing so makes us responsible for all that comes next.
Not to mention Egypt and Libya, which you didn’t mention.
Next comes his plea for bipartisanship:
To my friends on the left, I ask you to reconcile your belief in freedom and dignity for all people with those images of children writhing in pain and going still on a cold hospital floor, for sometimes resolutions and statements of condemnation are simply not enough.
I don’t think they really care about that. Remember they support full and unfettered abortion.
And just one last appeal for the children:
America is not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe, and it is beyond our means to right every wrong, but when with modest effort and risk we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
The most dangerous place in America for our children is in its mother’s womb. Syria is the least of their problems.
So while I did not watch Mr. Obama's speech (I'm 0 for how many ever speeches he's given), I did read it and was nonplussed and underwhelmed by his, or his speechwriters', words.
