{"id":186894,"date":"2013-09-02T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/02\/your-syria-update-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-02T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T01:13:00","slug":"your-syria-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/02\/your-syria-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Syria Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it looks like John Kerry is seriously in the running as the worst Secretary of State of the 2000s, and since this includes Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, this is a considerable accomplishment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Secretary of State John Kerry told House Democrats during a Monday conference call that they face a “Munich moment” as they weigh whether to approve striking Syria to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad for using chemical weapons, two sources with knowledge of the call told NBC News.<\/p>\n

The phrase is a reference to the 1938 Munich Pact that ceded control of part of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany — a moment that history has harshly judged as an appeasement of Adolf Hitler that preceded World War II.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, invoking Hitler and Munich?  This from the man who once asked, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”<\/p>\n

This is absolutely loathsome, and typifies the attitude of the Obama administration, which has abandoned any sense of perspective and history on this subject.<\/p>\n

That being said, it might be the most loathsome thing said over the weekend about this, because we have John McCain on the political scene<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Greg tweets:<\/span><\/p>\n

On CNN just now, McCain says Congress overruling Prez on a national security matter would set dangerous precedent<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is total, complete, nonsense, and betrays a deep lack of understanding \u2014 or perhaps a lack of support \u2014 for the U.S. political system.<\/span>

<\/span> To remind Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) of the basics of the Constitution: Congress and the president are co-equal. That\u2019s true in general, and it\u2019s true of \u201cnational security matters\u201d in particular. The president is commander-in-chief, but Congress not only has the power to declare war, but also the responsibility for funding the armed forces, the diplomats and, well, everything else in the government.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears that John McCain cannot be bothered to read the Constitution, which vests the power to declare war exclusively<\/b> in the hands of the legislative branch.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the Obama administration, or at least the increasingly unhinged John Kerry has declared that, “Obama ‘has the right’ to strike regardless of vote<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I am appalled. This is a position which is simply lawless, and makes a joke of both the Constitution and any Congressional vote.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what the vote is for, unless it’s just politics. (see pic)<\/p>\n

Worst Constitutional Law Professor Ever<\/a>.\u2122<\/sup><\/p>\n

H\/t Living Blue in a Red State<\/a> for the pic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it looks like John Kerry is seriously in the running as the worst Secretary of State of the 2000s, and since this includes Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, this is a considerable accomplishment: Secretary of State John Kerry told House Democrats during a Monday conference call that they face a “Munich moment” as they …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}