{"id":37424,"date":"2013-09-04T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37424"},"modified":"2013-09-04T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:10:09","slug":"most-americans-oppose-punishing-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37424","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans oppose “punishing” Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that in their latest polling, most Americans oppose any strike against Syria;<\/p>\n

Nearly six in 10 oppose missile strikes in light of the U.S. government\u2019s determination that Syria used chemical weapons against its own people. Democrats and Republicans alike oppose strikes by double digit margins, and there is deep opposition among every political and demographic group in the survey. Political independents are among the most clearly opposed, with 66 percent saying they are against military action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t strike Syria merely because the polling says we shouldn’t, there are myriad reasons and our foreign policy shouldn’t be conducted by opinion polls. But the poll is entirely the fault of this administration’s refusal to lead Americans to war. “Because f*** you…that’s why” is not explaining the reasons we should take military measures against Syria. I know that’s how this administration has shoved their policies down Americans’ throats, but its only because those linguine-spined Republicans don’t want to be called racists for opposing unAmerican policy that has nothing to do with race.<\/p>\n

Republicans will cave to the will of the President because it’s no skin off their nose if we end up in shooting war again. They can always blame the Democrats and hope none of the shit splashes back on them. Republicans have consistently voted with this President passing the most ridiculous shit because they don’t want to appear to be meanies.<\/p>\n

No one is asking what victory will look like after this “punishment” of the Syrian government or what our national security interests are like they would under the direction of their own party’s president. <\/p>\n

Of course, the Left is no better; Where are the hippie human shields flocking to Syria to protect their baby milk factories? Where are the congressmen on the roof of Assad’s palace declaring him more trustworthy than our own president?<\/p>\n

There is no leadership in Washington these days, there is only politicians punching tickets for reelection hoping that this whole Syria thing blows over in time for Americans to forget about it before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports that in their latest polling, most Americans oppose any strike against Syria; … Most Americans oppose “punishing” Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}