(With Syria, we need to take the ball by the horns! I think that’s what anthros say…)
Mama talks to me all the time about this enormous upheaval in Syria and why President Obama should take action and do something right away instead of vascillating every day and trying to get approval from a Congress, which hasn’t helped much in the past, but having drawn “the red line”, he really needs to respond fast when it is crossed. Mama said today that she wished he would just hire the Israelis to go in there and get rid of military posts that house chemical weapons—they have attacked Syria four times in the last months and they appear to know how to do it effectively and quickly.
Mama is usually not happy about anything having to do with the effects of war and those who create situations that require it (men?) but she feels we have a very ethical president (except for Guantanamo), a quality which might get in his way when being decisive about the line drawn in the sand, not to mention drawing it in the first place. She and papa both feel that to move toward a resolution in Syria, a quick response would have been much more successful than this seesaw of should we or shouldn’t we.
Mama doesn’t like to see our President in a bind. Considering the practically insurmountable obstacles he was faced with upon taking office (mama couldn’t imagine how anyone other than Superman could clean up the debris that Bush left to his successor) and the fact that he has managed to change our health care system, if only partially, along with 49 other accomplishments in office is certainly a formidable legacy to leave.
But mama thinks that if this thing in Syria is not resolved more quickly, his allies and his enemies will see him and our country with a weakness that could make them both vulnerable to others’ less altruistic plans for their own countries. Russia, for example.
I, for one, have no love lost for Putin who seems to be more preoccupied with a kitty’s behind than with politics for the people, his own people. Personally, I think he’s somewhat of a sociopath and rightly deserves the description by Hunter Walker as “The Newt Gingrich of Russia”, perhaps because he likes animals, as does Newt?
I certainly wouldn’t model for him, that ‘s for sure, and besides, I don’t speak Russian—yet.
Make that nyet.
я кот, который не владеет русским языком!
