Maybe. I think we probably don't know about 99% of the chess that occurs in the office of the President.mamabearCali wrote:sadly I don't think our president is a good chess player
In this circumstance, I agree with you. What a colossal mistake to draw a line in the sand and not be willing to act on it.
I get asking Congress. However, he'd need to the stamina to act anyway if Congress didn't authorize... He put himself in that position.
The whole Russia disarm thing gives him an out here.. Luckily.
It's a tough job. Isolationism worked really badly for us. It contributed to the death in Nazi Germany and probably lead to Pearl Harbor.
Imperialism, that was another mess...
I've had enough 3rd world wars. It's hard to sit back and claim that we're a moral country and civilian mass death in other countries if we have the power to stop it..
Yea, it's a tough job.