Bill Kristol Half Right: Obama's Syria Push Puts GOP in Political Peril They Cannot Ignore
by Noah Rothman
While Bill Kristol is right in that posterity will reflect on this generation’s inability to make the hard choices with regard to the Syrian atrocity with great contempt, he is not correct in that Republicans will share the blame for that failure.
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Kristol:
“As a policy matter, a Yes vote may be problematic in all kinds of ways. But a No vote would likely be disastrous for the nation in very clear ways,” Kristol begins. “Statesmanship requires choosing the problematic over the disastrous.”
The fact is that Obama is the only president we have. We can’t abdicate our position in the world for the next three years. So Republicans will have to resist the temptation to weaken him when the cost is weakening the country. A party that for at least two generations has held high the banner of American leadership and strength should not cast a vote that obviously risks a damaging erosion of this country’s stature and credibility abroad.
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