Leftists: America as the World Police

  So this Leftist angst over bombing Syria has really been interesting, shocking and revealing.
  (Slightly less interesting to watch are the clueless, spineless, Republican dolts who rushed to cameras to slobber over Obama's equally clueless declaration of war. Bleh.)
  I'm still somewhat shocked (if you can be somewhat shocked) by Eleanor Holmes Norton's frank admission that she really wasn't all about killing people in Syria other than to save Obama's global reputation which, frankly, Eleanor, is already in the toilet. Evan Bayh says it will be a bad thing to "neuter their president" so Congress will probably go along with the whole bombing thing.
  Pelosi's bizarre, intriguing and very intelligent conversation with her anti-war 5 year old grandson was another indication of the Left approaching the edge of the cliff of sanity. 
  You can watch her lipsticked mouth dish on the 5 year old kid's view of war the action Pelosi wants taken to bring the Syrians and the government into the same world view as Obama has.

  She was obviously taken with John Kerry's view of war military action which will have no consequences to the homeland. 
  Rand Paul's confrontation with John Kerry (viewable here) begs for priceless body language analysis.
   Every time Paul speaks, Kerry suddenly becomes intensely interested in writing very important notes on the paper in front of him. He even points at Rand Paul with gun shaped fingers.
  The notoriously anti-war, anti-soldier pompously arrogant and condescending Kerry nasally informs Paul and the world that a few bombs are a "limited action" not "war in the classic sense," though Kerry can't "rule out boots on the ground."
  Not that any of this made any sense; watching Leftists twist political pretzels to justify whatever position Dear Leader takes is both schadenfreudalicious and mournful.
  Over at the Daily Beast, Leftist Michael Tomasky whines that Leftism & militarism can be copecetic to amusing results: his commenters are virulently anti-military action in Syria. "Flapdoodle" expresses anger most eloquently:

It's infuriating to see so-called "liberals" and fauxgressives rooting for an unnecessary war. And why are they? Because their Dem placeholder wants one. Not good enough, in fact, it's a truly despicable reason. Frivolous, pointless, disgusting.
Such utter hypocrisy.

  To which the spelling challenged "Left of Center" responds indignantly:

You know full well their are many on the right opposing intervention for no other reason than Obama is advocating for it.

  Which is, of course, racist rather than a principled position.
  But it's not racist for "Left of Center" to support military action because their guy is black.
  Cognitive dissonance much?
  Gassing, Bayh claims, hasn't been done since "Hitler" or in "almost 100 years." Guess they've forgotten about Saddam Hussein gassing the Kurds, huh. Now THAT wasn't a good reason to go to war! Who are the Kurds anyway?
  Even as Syria busily moves human targets into the path of any of the 52 plans of attack Obama has assembled, Ed Asner & Mike Farrell are now sad they voted for Obama, who they considered would "sacrifice himself" rather than become a "corporatist" which apparently a bad thing. Millionaire Asner whose $1.5 million home just went up for sale apparently doesn' like corporations like the ones who made his career, via Newsbusters:

He feels sad he voted for Obama: "I voted for him, but I'm not proud. He hasn't thrown himself on the funeral pyre. I wanted him to sacrifice himself. Instead, he has proved himself to be a corporatist, and as long as he's a corporatist, he's not my president," Asner said. "A lot of people have lost hope -- with the betrayals, the NSA spying ... People aren't getting active because 'Who gives a shit?' is essentially the bottom line."

   Asner bases his political positions on emotion rather than reality, claiming that in Hollywood...."A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama."
  So it's turns out it's true: Leftists really do base their political stances on looking "anti-black," as lame ass and racist as that sounds.
   Mike Farrell is equally down in the dumps, who laments:

"What he is talking about in Syria is a potential war crime," Farrell said. "It will be illegal, and if citizens are killed it certainly could be considered a war crime....This administration ought to insist that the international community charge [Assad] with a war crime and prosecute him, and in so doing Obama would be following the law instead of flaunting the law."
"It's incredibly improper for the president to call for a strike. I have said it everywhere I can and I suspect a lot of others will do the same, but whether there will be an organized effort, I don't know," Farrell admitted. "I'm frankly deeply disappointed in the president's foreign policy, war-making, his reliance on military rather then diplomatic responses, his use of drones, continued allowance of the Guantanamo prison. He's a disappointment to me and other people I know."

  So here we are again appearing on stage as the World Police, only this time under the direction of the Nobel Peace Prize winning POTUS.
  With no clear direction or purpose other than to fire a "shot across the bow" and no further military entanglement envisioned, America is at the whim of a single narcissist who is increasingly detached from reality.
  Reality bites, though, as I don't ever want to hear peacenik language from these people again. Just like the Occupy protesters who claim peace and love, their real world view includes bullying and abusing people into their world view, with a few bodies and rapes along the way.
  So here we go.
  Hey, too bad about that Eiffel Tower.