Monday, September 15, 2014

TO THINK OR ACT AGAINST ISIS - THAT IS THE QUESTION

I didn’t have to listen to the President’s speech last week to register my disappointment with the President’s plan to deal with the ISIS plague, and I’m a blazing liberal, so that’s saying something. Despite my suggestion, there was no way the President was going to offer all his Congressional critics who are itching for another war the option of boarding a military transport, with a standard NRA-approved assault rifle in hand, and get dropped in the middle of ISIS held territory in Syria and Iraq to kill as many jihadists as they please. The President is too cerebral for such a pragmatic solution. He also refused to consider a national sports book to take wagers on which of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Mitch O’Connell or Ted Cruz would wet his pants first when the airplane door opened and the parachute jump light illuminated. My money would be on Ted Cruz, with Rush Limbaugh a close second. The loud mouths usually have the weakest bladders. There’s been no hint from the White House that the President would call out Congressional Republicans for not having the balls to ask the American people to step up and pay for any military action they have in mind, and that’s one place where I’m at odds with the President, because it’s not right for us to ask our military personnel to sacrifice their lives if Americans back home are unwilling to sacrifice their pocketbooks, too. Look, I understand that Sunnis and Shia in the Middle East have been killing one another for the past fourteen hundred years and have developed an hardy appetite for murder and mayhem. I get that other countries are fine with Americans getting killed fighting ISIS because it’s not their kin who get shipped home in pine boxes. What bugs me is that Obama won’t act before thinking. That’s un-American!