Democrats: "War is never the answer!" Wait...maybe it is. We'll just call it "a shot across their bow."

Who said this?

I would meet directly with Syrian leaders. We would engage in a level of aggressive personal diplomacy.... Iran and Syria would start changing their behavior if they started seeing that they had some incentives to do so, but right now the only incentive that exists is our president suggesting that if you do what we tell you, we may not blow you up.

My belief about the regional powers in the Middle East is that they don’t respond well to that kind of bluster. They haven’t in the past, there’s no reason to think they will in the future.

That would be...then-senator B.H. Obama when he was running for president in 2007. (Search the article for "acting irresponsibly.")

Now who said this?

[By attacking Syria] "we send a shot across the bow and say stop doing this, that can have a positive impact."

That would be Obama yesterday.

Short version:  2007:  president bad for using or threatening force against another nation.  2013:  Hey, it's not really force, it's just "a shot across their bow," and it's a great idea!

Liberals call contradictory statements like this "growing in office."

To liberals/Democrats/"progressives" bombing Iraq was just awful, terrible, unconscionable, unAmerican, inhumane, cruel--because it was undertaken by a Republican president.

A president, by the way, who asked for and received authorization from both congress and the U.N.  By contrast--and it's a huge contrast--a military strike against Syria is a great idea, because Barack Obama.

So far Obama hasn't asked congress for authorization to attack Syria.  But obviously he would before pulling the trigger on Syria--just as he did when he ordered the U.S. military to bomb Libya.

What?  You say Obama never asked congress to authorize that action?  But...but...but...LOOK, Miley Cyrus!!

Well at least Barack got the U.N. to pass a resolution agreeing that an attack was justified, as G.W. Bush did before ordering U.S. troops into Iraq.  Diplomacy.  Smaht diplomacy.  Very...nuanced...diplomacy.  Barack's reeeally good at that, cuz he's got John Kerry as SecState.  And he prolly asked Hillary what she thought about the idea too.

What?  You say he didn't get U.N. approval to attack Syria?

Well in that case don't worry:  He won't order the use of force.  Barry has no qualms about telling congress to fuck off, but he'd *never* go against the U.N.!  So we don't have to worry that he'll actually order U.S. forces to shoot cruise missiles into Syria.  He'd never order the use of force to overthrow another government without U.N. approval.  Cuz he's the Enlightened One.  The Lightbringer or lightworker or something equally deified.

And even if he does order our forces to bomb Syria, you liberals/Democrats will be just fine with it.  Cuz, you know, war is sometimes the answer after all.

Depends on the party affiliation of the guy who orders it, eh?