Thought for the day ...
"President Obama is allowing himself to be drawn back into the very war that he once correctly denounced as stupid and unnecessary — mostly because he and his advisers don’t know what else to do. Bombing has become his administration’s default option.
"Rudderless and without a compass, the American ship of state continues to drift, guns blazing."
Read the rest (and weep) ...
Update: Here is a link to the full article by Andrew J. Bacevich, the Boston University political science professor and former Army colonel who lost his son in the Iraq war in 2007: Obama is picking his targets in Iraq and Syria while missing the point
“We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.” — Hunter S. Thompson
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