The Daily Beast
by Kirsten Powers
September 6, 2013

A Swedish reporter asked President Obama Wednesday, “Could you describe the dilemma to being a Nobel Peace Prize winner and getting ready to attack Syria?”

Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples. But the president has not demonstrated that missile attacks in Syria would do anything to achieve peace. Worse, by all accounts, Obama’s “red line” threat was an off-the-cuff remark, not a well thought-out strategy. The U.S. should not attack another country because the president was careless with his words and now wants to protect his personal credibility.

But we don’t even need to look at Syria to conclude that the decent thing would be for Obama to return the prize that he never deserved in the first place.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...here-s-why.html

The president was asked, "What are you going to do about Syria?"

"Peace on it!", was Zero's reply.

One Tin POTUS (The Legend of Zero The First)

Listen, citizens, to a story
That was written long ago,
'Bout a republic on a mountain
And the dictatorship below.

On the mountain was a rule of laws
Buried deep beneath the stone,
And the dictator's people swore
They'd have them for their very own.

Go ahead and bomb your neighbor,
Go ahead and lie to a friend.
Do it in the name of Zero,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any basketballs throwing
Come coronation day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin POTUS rides away.

So the dictator of the valley
Sent a message up Capitol hill,
demanding all the buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which he'd kill.

Came an answer from the republic,
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there."

Go ahead and bomb your neighbor,
Go ahead and lie to a friend.
Do it in the name of Zero,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any basketballs throwing
Come coronation day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin POTUS rides away.

Now the dictator cried with anger,
"Launch your missiles!" "Arm your planes!"
And they killed the mountain-people,
So they'd won their just reward.

Now they stood beside the treasure,
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
"We the People" was what it said.

Go ahead and bomb your neighbor,
Go ahead and lie to a friend.
Do it in the name of Zero,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any basketballs throwing
Come coronation day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin POTUS rides away.

Quote: Justme wrote in post #4

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@Rufus T Firefly that was GREAT!

now, thank you very much, One Tin Soldier is going to be stuck in my head for days

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