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ah ha.....I had no idea of all of that. Nice move Putin....sadly I don't think our president is a good chess player. He is like those kids in high school that boasted of their computer scores, but when playing against a real person were checkmated in just a few minutes.

So our pitiful president has a temper tantrum and Putin takes him to the woodshed and shows him how real leaders work international diplomacy. Good Heavens. I hope we don't pay for our president's hubris on our backs. Never ever thought I would see the day where a Russian...an ex-KGB.....would have more tact, discretion, subtlety and morals than an American president.

What I am thankful for is that someone had the guts to cool off our president before he put us into WWIII. What I worry about is why Putin did it. He did not do it to pull our posteriors out of the flame.....so there is another shoe to drop somewhere. If we are very lucky he was just being responsible enough as a world player to keep lightweight from really messing things up. I don't want to think about what motivated him if we are not so lucky.

I wish I could feel as hopeful as you Superman. Perhaps we were once a shining city on a hill. A beacon of light and freedom. Perhaps it was a mirage....something never really obtained just wished for. That shining city on a hill, if it ever existed, might be justified in condemning and taking steps with other nations to stop two warring parties from killing innocents (bullets, gas, starvation all = dead kids). That was the argument for the UN. Now the UN is a putrid mess of extortion, blackmail, and corruption. Our nation is not far behind them in the depravity that goes on in DC.

We are not a shining city on the hill when 4,000 of our citizens die everyday because they are too young to be protected. We are not a shining city on a hill when a grandmother who has never had so much as a speeding ticket in her life is digitally strip searched then hand raped for the privilege of flying on an aircraft, but a 20 year old Saudi man with no luggage and a one way ticket is waved through (I am not saying he should be harassed either, just pointing out the difference in risk). We are not a shining city on a hill when businesses do not have the freedom to choose whom they will do business with. We are not a shining city on a hill when those who come trying to escape religious persecution are denied asylum, but drug mules crossing the border are given amnesty (or soon will be). I could go on and on. If we ever were the shining city on the hill....someone has removed the lampstand and plunged us in ever deepening darkness.


As an aside I do not think we really know who or what is going on there. How can we be a force for good in this world when both sides are as evil as evil gets. Assad's regime is horrendous, those opposing him are even worse. One cannot pick up excrement by the clean end. We cannot save the world. If the arabs dislike what is happening there so much, they have armies, let them go and handle it. Why should we travel across the world to hold two bullies apart from one another. Why do we suddenly care about civilians when the first 100K were killed without so much as a peep from us? No there is something more here.....Obama thinks he is a wonderful magician that can dazzle the world.....watch the other hand.

Oldgringo wrote:TAM for POTUS!

Amen....can we draft you?

emailed my congresscritters. We should stay as far from Syria as we can. This is a deathtrap for us. No more sifting sand.

This is a fools errand. Write your congressmen and senator and let them know. I'd say more, but others have already said it better.