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By James Taranto
Sept 6, 2013
President Obama has confirmed the suspicion that his decision to ask Congress for authorization before using force in Syria was a political ploy. "I'll repeat something that I said in Sweden," he said this morning (U.S. time) at a press conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. "I did not put this before Congress, you know, just as a political ploy or as symbolism."
"Just" is the tell.
Obama loves to speak in the first-person singular; he seems oblivious to the obnoxiousness of his habitual references (including one in today's press conference) to "my military." But suddenly it's a matter of whether we mean what we say.
As we noted Tuesday, he (Obama) scoffed in 2002 at the argument that Saddam's human-rights violations justified U.S. action, and in 2007 he suggested that it was wrong to intervene anywhere unless one was prepared to intervene everywhere.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
Best of the Web Today: Reductio ad Obama - WSJ.com
It's surprising how much this administration is tied up in knots. In fact they're using the some of the same reasoning that took us into the Iraq war.
Sept 6, 2013
President Obama has confirmed the suspicion that his decision to ask Congress for authorization before using force in Syria was a political ploy. "I'll repeat something that I said in Sweden," he said this morning (U.S. time) at a press conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. "I did not put this before Congress, you know, just as a political ploy or as symbolism."
"Just" is the tell.
Obama loves to speak in the first-person singular; he seems oblivious to the obnoxiousness of his habitual references (including one in today's press conference) to "my military." But suddenly it's a matter of whether we mean what we say.
As we noted Tuesday, he (Obama) scoffed in 2002 at the argument that Saddam's human-rights violations justified U.S. action, and in 2007 he suggested that it was wrong to intervene anywhere unless one was prepared to intervene everywhere.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
Best of the Web Today: Reductio ad Obama - WSJ.com
It's surprising how much this administration is tied up in knots. In fact they're using the some of the same reasoning that took us into the Iraq war.