At yesterday’s Senate hearing, Rand Paul asked whether Obama would abide by the vote authorizing force against Syria.  Kerry blustered on about what war means and concluded that Syria doesn’t qualify:
SEC. KERRY:Â “Senator . . . The president is not asking you to go to war . . . He’s simply saying we need to take an action that can degrade the capacity of a man who’s been willing to kill his own people . . . That’s not — I don’t — you know, I just don’t consider that going to war in the classic sense of coming to Congress and asking for a declaration of war and training troops and sending people abroad and putting young Americans in harm’s way. Â That’s not what the president is asking for here.”
Kerry has been to war and protested war. Â He got medals, said he gave them back, then claimed he didn’t. Â He’s been against unilateral war, then for it. Â If anyone has been on every side of war, it’s John Kerry.
Because of his vast experience with war, we can trust Kerry when he says bombing another country isn’t a war. Â It’s “an action.”
Then Kerry made a mistake. Â He asked an actual warrior to support him. Â Someone who still has his medals pinned to his chest. Â Here’s what happened:
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