“There’s a huge amount of bombing that could be done!”
by digby
“I would like a little overreaction by the President now. He should go to Congress right away to get authorization. But meanwhile he’s acting under the War Powers Act, and he shouldn’t wait. He shouldn’t wait! There’s a huge amount of bombing and damage that could be done to ISIS tomorrow if the president orders it.”
Runferyerlives!!!
General Kristol doesn’t specify what all that bombing and damage should be and he’s not promising that we won’t get our hair mussed. But if there’s one thing he knows in all his years of military leadership bombing indiscriminately is the best way to stop terrorism.
You could see the excitement among the warmongers yesterday. They are stimulated and energized. They’re getting ready to go.
The question is, barring another financial catastrophe before 2016, what presidential candidate might emerge on the right to take up the cause? Most of the Governors are without foreign policy cred. Is there someone out there who could step in to out-macho a woman candidate? (And make the woman candidate even more hawkish?) Looks like an opportunity …
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