You know when the State Dept. is calling for military action things are truly bad!

Jun. 16, 2016,

An 'embarrassing' break: Dozens of State Department officials just revolted against Obama's Syria policy
http://www.businessinsider.com/state-department-officials-call-for-airstrikes-on-assad-2016-6

"Failure to stem Assad's flagrant abuses will only bolster the ideological appeal of groups such as Daesh, even as they endure tactical setbacks on the battlefield," the cable reads, according to The Journal.Daesh is an alternate name for ISIS, aka the Islamic State or ISIL."We are aware of a dissent channel cable written by a group of State Department employees regarding the situation in Syria," State Department spokesman John Kirby told The Wall Street Journal.

Last edited by Common Sense (4/09/2017 9:38 am)

tennyson wrote:

Many of the congressional Republicans who are praising President Donald Trump's decision to strike a Syrian airfield were opposed to President Obama's request to approve a similar action against Syria in 2013.

Trump ordered the launch of more than 50 tomahawk cruise missiles on Thursday in retaliation for Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad's reported use of chemical weapons against his own people.

In August of 2013, after Assad used chemical weapons in a similar scenario against people in the Syrian city of Ghouta, Obama requested congressional permission to launch air strikes against the Assad regime.Many Republicans opposed his request. One of the most prominent was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who on Friday tweeted out his support for Trump's strike, writing, "This was a clear signal from America that Bashar al Assad can no longer use chemical weapons against his own people with impunity."

This is why politics sucks ! 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/kfile-top-republicans-syria-trump/index.html
 

Agreed.
But we must persevere.
We cannot cede the field to these hypocrites or to those who come around later and try to change the subject