There are those who wants to do harm to others running around radically.

"... there's no reason to think Obama won't use his mallet all over the vanishing geography of Iraq."

There are three:

There's no public will.
He's not predisposed to it.
It won't work.

Other than that, fantastic derp!

derp like a bag of hammers.

In fact, I even read the whole editorial. It's a sad compilation of conjecture, fantasy, parsing and presupposition meant to convey the certitude that Obama is bent on Mideast destruction. Except that he's not, nor will he.

Dull fiction.

There is no drone assassination program across an indefinite part of the world (except, of course, w.r.t. the key essence: they can't fight back).

"Friends of Syria" only funds, gives aid and moral support to and through proxies military capabilities to, "moderate jihadists". It has to be true: I read how it is true right here on DU, in a thread that explained how the USA has no moral culpability, because George W. Bush is gone and we have a new forward-looking administration.

wars.

It used to be popular here. Heck, there used to be a pretty strong anti-war contingent here.

"Stop the War was founded in September 2001, in the weeks following 9/11 when George W. Bush announced the "war on terror". It has since been dedicated to ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing the troops home and forcing the British government to change its disastrous foreign policies. We have initiated many campaigns around these issues and are also committed to opposing sanctions and military attacks on Iran, supporting Palestinian rights, opposing racism and defending civil liberties.

Stop the War has organised around 40 national demonstrations, including the largest protests ever held in Britain, most memorably when up to 2 million gathered on London's streets on 15 February 2003. Other events have included thousands of public meetings across the country, direct action in the run up to the war in 2003, including walkouts from schools, colleges and workplaces,two People's Assemblies, international peace conferences, vigils, lobbies of Parliament and anti-war cultural events.

We are open to affiliation by supporting organisations and individual membership for all those who support our aims as set out in our constitution."