Obama will Not Attack Syria

President Obama's gesture to remanding to Congress the decision to go to war signals his intention not to go to war. And I think it's fine.

Pundits have been calculating that to do nothing in Syria will lead to probably more gassing, and hence, more deaths. To do something, as in to conduct military operations on a limited scale will barely change things either. In other words, there are no good results for any action in Syria - as of today.

I think Obama will get a political kick out of his decision to engage Congress on the matter. The Republican held lower house has consistently blocked, delayed, harassed and simply stalled almost all policy initiatives by Obama simply because it was HIS policy initiatives. Indeed, some members of Congress wrote to Obama in the days after the Aug. 21 attack to urge the president to involve Congress in any decision to attack Syria. Now that they have been given the honor, let's say how the recalcitrant Republicans will deal with the matter. If they do approve of the strike and it goes horribly wrong, they will get the blame for authorizing it, if they don't approve of the same, they will get the blame for allowing the slaughter of innocent civilians.

I am just excited how the US Congress will deal with the matter. They have so far been good at only one thing, opposing everything Obama does because it is Obama's initiative. Mmmmm. Bring it on Republicans!