I HAVEN’T seen the movie The Butler, but I feel as if I have seen it. Aren’t we living through a similar exercise in fiction every single day? Take our president. He’s not a noble butler facing a world of inept and evil white power, but he is starring in a similarly uplifting film called The President, also featuring Oprah on screens near you. Obama’s not really a president. He’s never really been a president, but he has been acting like one. He’s been playing this role so long it comes naturally most of the time, although when he has to act as a president who is very, very serious, as presidents often are, there is the slight temptation, ever present, to smile. He holds it in.

Right now, the President is acting the role of a president in a military crisis. The plot switches to Syria, a Middle Eastern country in need of America the Free to sort everything out. The brilliant, creative producers have decided that pilots flying Cruise missiles and pyrotechnic explosions would help the plot. It’s only natural that the viewers want to see the President, who is the main character, do something. There will be scenes of him at the war table, surrounded by his advisers. His sleeves will be rolled up and he will look authoritative and concerned. He will also be shown mid-stride on the tarmac of Air Force One with that very, very serious expression. The President is about to launch a military strike without Congressional approval and for no compelling national interest (they couldn’t fit that in) other than the dictates of the script. He has a large cast of actors to play along and expensive, high-tech props. The scenes will be so realistic that real people will die, a real international crisis will result and America will really commit a “moral obscenity.” But that’s the price of art and besides this amazing, fast-paced, action-packed movie called The President is free for everyone.

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Paul writes:

Concerning Syria, the President has evidenced himself as a poor military decision maker thus far, and I expect he will continue to be so by changing his strategy because he is interested in himself, not America.

If the President does not want to go in hard but thinks he must do something, he should take out Assad. But he has already taken that off the table. That leaves him with only two choices, to go in hard or not at all. The Syrians have already taken tactical measures to ensure cruise missiles would be ineffective. And he can’t go in hard because it would put American lives at risk. And he knows American lives should not be risked to stop a civil war in another country unless a vital American interest were at stake.

There is no vital American interest at stake. The horrific civil wars that have been raging in Africa and raged in Ceylon for twenty-three years are examples of things that we have no interest in. The supposedly gentle Ceylon people massacred one another beginning in 1983. They now have a population of twenty-one million, and the war cost 70,000-100,000 lives. It made me think less of the wonderful author Arthur C. Clarke, who lived there for many years. Why live in such a barbaric country? America therefore would be a laughingstock.

Although the President has boxed himself in, I expect he will change his strategy and take out Assad. Nobody will complain, and he wants to be seen in a good light. It is what Bush should have done with Saddam Hussein instead of sacrificing American lives. Let the Syrians and Iraqis sort out the consequences. If the result endangers a vital American interest, then go in hard.

But that is the heart of the issue: whether the situation requires risking American lives? It does not. The President needs to take it down a notch and say America does not become embroiled in foreign civil wars unless the outcome would present a clear and present danger to America, and the outcome of this civil war does not present a clear and present danger. If he has inside information, he should make his case to Congress.

I don’t want to be prolix; therefore, I won’t go into why it was vital to take out Hussein.

Alissa writes from South America:

Regarding The Butler:

No other country has treated African blacks with such love and care such as the USA. Not Central-South American countries, not Eastern European countries, not Israel, not Middle Eastern Arab countries, not Oriental-Asian countries.

And how have African blacks repayed the white American people? With widespread murders, rape, with “black pride”, with hatred, with disdain, with affirmative action/racial quotas, with grievance activists, community dysfunction towards your people.

The biggest irony is that most foreign nations that have treated African blacks with disrespect, with inferiority, with separation, with explusion, are the ones still standing, albeit they are also declining in their own matter and in their own levels.

American people treated them with love and those ungrateful humans have repayed them with lack of care and hatred. Maybe all of your American blacks (both foreign and domestic) should be expatriated to the West African country of Liberia.

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