Personally, I have to say I admired Obama's restraint today. Dubya would have shot from the hip and ordered a unilateral strike without waiting for Congress. At least Obama had the temperance to wait for Congress to at least vote on it. Perhaps this will give the UN enough time to complete their investigation and find forensic evidence to prove who is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack, since both sides are pointing fingers. I'd like to see some solid evidence rather then secondhand information from supposedly "trustworthy" sources. Congress reconvenes September 9th.

Regardless, I will still not favor military involvement personally. I'd rather see us exhaust all diplomatic means first, and considering that the US has been postponing and canceling every meeting Russia tries to arrange, I'd say we have a long way to go before we should be reaching for the gun.

People get all hysterical about chemical weapons, but the sickening truth is that thousands of people have already died in Syria from bullets, shells, starvation, sepsis and god knows what else. The time to have helped was two years ago when all of this began, before the rebel movement was co-opted by terrorist factions. The rebels pleaded for a no-fly zone. It was not granted. And so, here we are.

I will certainly be calling my representatives to tell them I oppose all military intervention no matter what words they want to use to "soften" it. "Surgical," "intervention," "humanitarian" - why not just call a spade a spade and say BOMBING and KILLING people, because that is what air strikes are for.

I think we all know what George Carlin would say if he was still around.