And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there...

Obama wants to take an action that could easily cascade into a regional war perhaps triggering WWIII for what appears to be saving face for his unthoughtful "red line" declaration.

"I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line."

"My credibility is not on the line. The international community's credibility is on the line."

I'm ashamed of our government - the executive branch in particular - Would that there were a way to sweep them all out of office forthwith.

Our democracy, in as much as it is supposed to be representative, would be exposed to the world as a sham.

No one in the world, in the entire world, will ever again believe that our battles of conquest have anything remotely to do with the establishment of democracy. The contempt shown by the administration for democracy here at home is all too evident.

People around the world had high hopes once Bush was finally out of office - but those hopes have been dashed. Bush dimmed the light of freedom and now Obama is set to extinguish it.

Obama has already shown that he thinks nothing of the abuses of the NSA and domestic spying upon American citizens who have done nothing and are suspected of nothing.

And now, he wants the military option of a banana republic dictator. He, like Bush, thinks it's OK as long as he's the dictator.

"Compromise"? "Compromise"? Are they kidding?

60 days with an option - to do a little surgical bombing?
That becomes 90 days. And that will entail another 90 to "get the job done".

And how many innocents will the world watch us kill?
And what reprisals will we be provoking?

And as far as the guarantee of no "boots on the ground", could Kerry possibly have been more evasive than he was at the hearing in which he regurgitated the following "guarantee":

"I'm absolutely confident, Mr. Chairman, that it is easy, not that complicated, to work out language that will satisfy the Congress and the American people that there's no door open here through which someone can march in ways that the Congress doesn't want it to while still protecting the national security interests of the country."

Just wave "national security" at us, and all the doors open. All restraint disappears. All semblance of representative democracy gets thrown in the trash.

I would hope that the 56% of Americans who see through his grab for power would march on Washington - and barrage their representatives threatening not to vote for them, but also to actively work for their defeat.

If one of the founders of our republic were to appear and ask me, "Oh say, does that star-bangled  banner still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

There are some 20 million people in Syria, some of whom may die rightly, and some wrongly, if left to chance.  To make matters worse, they are fleeing the nation by the millions at an increasing pace.

This need not be.  We in the United States have a responsibility. Syrians are not less worthy of proper deaths than ourselves.  We need spare no financial expense due to prejudices of religion or ethnicity.  It is time for us to step up as the International Community, while the rest of the world's nations fail.  We can make sure Syrians meet a proper end.

[...snip...]

The benefits of my scheme are so numerous that one is apt to forget the central and most significant objective, which will be accomplished with complete and total success if our actions are swift and comprehensive.  That is: we will stop the wrong people killing anyone with weapons deemed unacceptable by the International Community.

Enough with halfway measures, I say!  Enough with telling the Democrats we won't join another endless war beyond our control on the side of Al Qaeda! Enough with assuring Republicans we'll stand shoulder to shoulder with terrorists until Iran is destroyed or Russia launches nukes! We have the technology. We have the stockpiles. Wipe every Syrian out with acceptable weaponry today! It's our humanitarian responsibility!