Listening to the Senate hearing on authorizing a limited,
degrading air strike against Syria I am suspicious that listening is a
difficult thing for Senators.
Each and every Senator used their pulpit time to advance
their own political views. Senator Rubio took nearly ten minutes to ask a
simple question to Secretaries Kerry and Hagel and General Dempsey, a question
that had already been asked in a different way by another member of the
committee.
It is also interesting to me is that if the Senate votes to
authorize President Obama to order an airstrike, it will be the first time in
several years that members of both parties have agreed on anything.
It is also sad that if that agreement comes, it is to
authorize something destructive to others rather than something positive for
the American people.
Why does it take the chemical deaths of innocents to find a
bi-partisan agreement in the U.S. Congress?
Why does it take a military action against a moral atrosity
to get a by-partisan agreement from Congress?
Does all this public discussion give the Assad regime time
to hide, move and disburse it weapons of mass destruction?
When was the last time a government who says it will attack
another government, debate in public its intention and its right to do so?
So many questions.
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