We`ll put a Boot in your Ass...

It`s the American Way!
Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
and the Statue of Liberty started shakin’ her fist...

And the eagle will fly; man, it’s gonna be Hell
when you hear Mother Freedom start ringin’ her bell...
and it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you

Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue .

Nevermind Dr. King's historic preachings on overcoming via the power of non violence. Seems this week we were all just paying lip service to a Dream.*

Myself? I'm holding out hope that the president wises up and gives the people what they want...

Legally, he knows he's got to go through Congress to get approval to involve us in another hot war, and intellectually, he's got to know that the American people -- who, mindful of the consequences, overwhelmingly oppose any further US military action in the region -- send those representatives to Congress for a reason.

I don't believe this president is dumb enough to believe might makes right, which is the message he is preaching in calling for ... revenge. We're operating under the Constitution, not the Old Testament. Our document is a blueprint for national survival, not a mutual suicide pact. We have no obligation to fulfill the Book, to bring on the End Times...

Where there's no national security interest at play, it's best not to intervene and escalate the conflagration.

No one believes the US taking the field at this late date -- alone thinking we need to get off the sidelines -- will bring life to the already dead. Nor do we have faith that raining bombs on Damascus is some brilliant move to create peace.

More people will die, the region will burn, evolution can be deadly, and growth rates vary...

But we've learned something as a people in these past 10 years of war, knowledge that has cost us dearly. There's little clamoring for military glory; we're more likely to draw a Breanna Manning than a Pat Tillman to uniform today...

There's plenty of work to be done, domestically, to rebuild within our own borders. As guest panelist Marian Wright Edelman mentioned on last Sunday's talk show, US survival in the long run depends more on how we uplift our own uneducated and ill-prepared citizens into the new century.

Do we choose violence and ethnic/religious divide here and spiral downward, or will we follow the plan laid out in our Constitution?

Sure, we can sing that ugly chorus above. Join in the 'bromance' between John POW McCain and President MeToo Obama... But why?

"We Shall Overcome" beats "Barbara Ann" any day.

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Ah, ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann
Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann
Oh Barbara Ann, take my hand
Barbara Ann
You got me rockin and a-rollin
Rockin and a-reelin
Barbara Ann ...

* Like preaching gun control here at home, while abroad we supply rebels and peacemakers alike with the power to control their countries. Via powerful guns. hmm.