Plan for War

President Obama has decided to go to war with Syria and wants Congress to support him.  Oh, I know, he says it’s not war, just a punitive strike; it won’t take very long or involve U.S. boots on the ground.

Team Obama wants a tidy little military action – kind of like Goldilocks: not too much, not too little, just right amounts of death and destruction, without any real cost to us.

Unfortunately, fairy tales don’t make for good strategies.  And the enemy gets a vote in wars.  Thankfully, Congress is being given one, too.  And in the debate preceding their vote, our representatives must evaluate not only the President’s proposed strike, but also what is being planned in the event one or more of our enemies votes for a wider war.