The Syrian war will be Obama's second war. He lost the first (Afghanistan) and is now in jeopardy of losing his membership as a "citizen of the world."

The Syrian War will be Obama’s second war.  The first,  Afghanistan,  he lost.  And now,  if Congress gives him permission but the UN refuses to condone his Syria strategy,   he will find himself out of step with the UN and no longer,  apparently,  a “citizen of the world.” Its kind of funny that liberals,  when they ascend to the presidency,  so often turn into moderates,  implicitly admitting that their rhetorical history was so much nonsense.  

Before he was finished with his presidency,  Clinton,  for example,   had attacked Kosovo, balanced the budget (something Democrats no longer believe in) and reduced the roles of those on welfare.  And now,  Obama,  the Citizen of the World,  has put himself in a situation where all that European talk of love and respect and reconciliation has become so much crap;  reality has set in and he is forced to act against the wishes of his party and their traditional anti war stance  . . . .  and this Syrian strike will be a pre-emptive strike,  at that.  I personally think it is all rather funny.  

Gateway Pundit gives us this summary:  "When he was a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama made it clear that, as he told the German people, he was a “citizen of the world.” During his first four years in the White House, as the Obama team boasted, this meant his management style consisted of “leading from behind.” A significant part of “leading from behind,” of course, was making American foreign policy subordinate to the United Nations."