Those who advocate intervention in Syria are way off on this issue. There are far too many unanswered questions about what actually is occurring in the region for rushed and reckless decisions. The argument that military intervention must take place “now” because the national security interests of the US are at stake is unsupported or weak at best. It should be kept in mind that to Obama, anything Congress does is meaningless. He's already said no matter what they do, he's going to "go it alone". This is just a way for him to throw the football back into the lap of the Republican party and ultimately blame them for anything that goes wrong.
And there are lots of things that can go wrong. Any kind of military action should have taken place long ago. At this point nothing we do, especially after announcing a limited action, is going to affect Iran's view of the United States. Iran already mocks us as being weak, and whatever we do in Syria is not going to deter Iran from proceeding forward with their development of a deliverable nuclear bomb. So all we can do by this pinprick of a move is kill some Russian soldiers on the ground, provoke a retaliatory attack on Israel by Iran, and possibly start a conflagration in the region. Yeah, Al Qaeda would just love that. Anytime that RINO sellouts like McCain, Lindsay, and Boehner join with Obama, Pelosi and Reid on an issue, it’s not going to be pretty.
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