Is he for this one before he'll be against it?

John Kerry is beating the drums of war against Syria, even though he eventually ran for President with his main platform being against the war in Iraq.

I can see the differences, of course. Saddam was the Baath leader in Iraq who gassed his own citizens, while Bashar Assad is the Baath leader in Syria who gassed his own citizens.

But there are concerns and strong reasons why I am against this war:

1) There is no up-side for the United States. None at all.

2) The choices are between (in this corner) the dictator who gassed his own people and Hezbollah, and (in the red corner) Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. And if we just randomly blow shit up with cruise missile and air strikes, we'll piss off both sides AND the possible neutral parties who just wish everyone would knock off the fighting. Plus Russia and China, of course.

3) There has not only been no attempt to drum up support (as that Imperialist warmonger Bush did in his 16-month "rush to war" - getting both a UNSC Resolution and the AUMF from both chambers of Congress), our "smart diplomacy" team has managed to offend our closest allies on the planet to the point where Parliament refused the war request of the Prime Minister for the first time since the Revolutionary War (1782), and has exposed that poseur at #OccupyResoluteDesk as the failure he is. I mean, when an optometrist-turned-hereditary-dictator disses the President, common sense would be for the President to laugh it off, not send in "boots on the ground" (which Kerry was pushing for yesterday).

4) Since Obama has already stated that he will send in strikes even if Congress downvotes it, he is openly defying Congress to stop him, and when it turns out that those few missile strikes did no more to punish Assad than Clinton's missile strikes did to Saddam, the MSM will put the blame not on the head of Preezy "Don't call my bluff" McRedLine, but on the Republicans in the House.

5) The media is actively campaigning for this war (check out MSNBC), but they are faking up their anecdotal evidence. Does anyone else remember "Wag The Dog"?

6) It has been a policy of the United States since the end of WW2 that we will respond to the use of WMD with our own WMD. Chemical weapons are indiscriminate, pervasive and also serve as area denial weapons, and are, therefore classified as Weapons of Mass Destruction (as are biological weapons). The catch is that the only WMD the US currently holds are nuclear. Are we changing that policy, or will we go back to using it when we aren't fighting Muslims?


However

All that having been said, I find it repugnant and reprehensible to the nth degree that John "Seared" Kerry is offering to pimp out our soldiers and sailors and heroes to the highest bidder.

Where the fuck are all the "Not In My Name" and Code Pink and the Vagina Warriors and Martin Sheen and all those liberals who "ain't a-gonna study war no more"? Cindy Sheehan?

Rent them out? To whom? And to what purpose? Which side will we be dying for? And what happens if/when other nations (Russia, China, Iran, etc.) decide to join in, and which side will they be joining?

What happens when other small countries start rattling their sabers, especially after seeing how easy it is to set Obama off?