Alter: Obama a Reluctant Warrior As Opposed to Cowboy Like Bush

[AuH20]

Please. Spare me the nonsense.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2011/03/21/alter-obama-reluctant-warrior-not-cowboy-bush

[RM918]

Yeah, it's on Mother Jones too. Call the spin utter crap and they accuse you of being a 'teabagger'! It's official, if it already wasn't readily apparent: The blue team is completely ideologically bankrupt.

[acptulsa]

Not reluctant enough.

You can tell he was all hamstrung by the paradox. What did it take, five seconds after the UN resolution came through until he announced our 'participation'?

[sailingaway]

Except that Bush at least convinced Congress and went to them, unlike Obama.

[specsaregood]

Except that Bush at least convinced Congress and went to them, unlike Obama.

And I don't think Bush immediately flew off to a foreign country for a bit of fun and games after initiating war...

[jkr]

wOw

does it even MATTER?




...moral gradualism at its finest...

[Aratus]

TR was into gunboat diplomacy on occasion and just had to ride up san juan hill.
woodrow wilson was impelled by events into WW1 and JFK was a coldwar hawk.

[South Park Fan]

To play devil's advocate, I suspect that this war engineered more by his puppermaster Secretary Clinton than Obama himself. Then again, one could say the same thing about Bush and Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al. Either way, this is just the nail in the coffin in the Left's credibility on foreign policy.

[lester1/2jr]

I wonder if Obama regrets this

[Aratus]

only if he is subjected to a long senate trial and looses
that final vote will he have regrets. i feel he most likely
has asked rep. boehner and sen. mcconnell to back
him up as he now starts to act more like the "W" did.