Draw, You Dry Gulcher.

We're beginning to hear a chorus of folks clamoring for the U.S. to intervene in Syria to protect civilians by arming insurgents, and airstrikes against Assad's forces. Then politics entered into the discussion. Now Obama is being called everything from soft on this, to weak on that, to timid on something else. I just can't believe these folks want to get involved in another military action. Is this Bashar Al-Assad a miserable lying S.O.B.? Yes. Is he doing unconscionable things to his own people? Yes. Should he be taken out? Sure. But do we really want to do what's necessary to make that happen? Haven't we done enough to cause casualties ourselves? Haven't we made enough enemies all over the world, ourselves? In March, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman spoke out against American do-nothing-ism. Does anybody know what it means for us to safely use airstrikes in a hostile country? Lot's of pinpoint bombing to take down their air-defences. Which means lots of civilian casualties. Which means more bad press for America. Which means more recruits for AlQaida. Is that what you want? Do you think we ought to send more Americans into harms way? Do you think we should help AlQaida recruit more terrorists? It sounds like Romney does. Look, Romney could become the next president of the USA. do we want him to go running around using his quick-draw holster and six gun every time somebody gets beat up or killed around the world? Or would you rather he handle it through diplomacy and economic pressure? It might be slower, but it does work most of the time. Well, that's what Obama is doing, give it a chance to work. Instead of pressuring him to act militarily, tell Romney and these others to back off. We can always go to war to satisfy the hawks. But just because they drool over the idea of another military action, doesn't make them brave men and women themselves. It just makes them brave with other peoples lives.