{"id":4418,"date":"2013-09-11T20:56:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2013-09-11T20:56:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:56:51","slug":"two-sides-of-my-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4418","title":{"rendered":"Two sides of my mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, when you say something, you mean something else.\u00c2\u00a0 Given the inconsistencies from Rand Paul on the Syria<\/a> issue, I think there’s a likely key to interpretation:<\/p>\n

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, said President Barack Obama “didn’t quite convince me” on the need to launch a military strike on Syria in his Tuesday night speech.<\/p>\n

But, Paul said, Obama did make a compelling case that Syrian President Bashar Assad is guilty of killing almost 1,500 civilians with poison gas last month.<\/p>\n

“If Assad is responsible he deserves death for this,” Paul told Fox News Channel after the Tuesday night speech. “But the president’s plan is to leave Assad alone,” Paul said on a later CNN appearance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the charitable interpretation.\u00c2\u00a0 Assad (or whoever is responsible) deserves death, but it’s not in America’s interest to serve that up to him.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s the less charitable (but probably more accurate) interpretation.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll oppose the President on whatever he tries to do and act very principled about American interests and be very, very non-inteventionist.\u00c2\u00a0 And when the President doesn’t do something interventionist, I’ll call him weak for leaving someone like Assad in power.<\/em> See the game?\u00c2\u00a0 If President calls for military action, say he’s a saber-rattler.\u00c2\u00a0 If the President tries diplomacy, shout appeasement.\u00c2\u00a0 (See Salon<\/a> for a list of others playing the game.)<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, when you say something, you mean something else.\u00c2\u00a0 Given the inconsistencies from Rand Paul on the Syria issue, I think there’s a likely key to interpretation: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, said President Barack Obama “didn’t quite convince me” on the need to launch a military strike on Syria in his Tuesday night speech. But, … Continue reading Two sides of my mouth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}