Go-Code for al Qaeda in Syria

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday approved a resolution green-lighting the attack President Obama is intent on launching in Syria.  A bipartisan majority would permit military strikes to “change the momentum” in Syria’s civil war.

Since that authorization is directly at odds with the sentiments of the American people – who oppose intervention in Syria by at least 56 to 19 percent – the Committee’s members must have found the arguments of the critics unpersuasive.  Oh wait, the Committee actually didn’t take testimony from any critics.

That’s right, Senators have only heard from administration witnesses, all of whom unsurprisingly support the President’s plan for military strikes that would help al Qaeda overthrow Syria’s dictator.  If this sounds to you like a recipe for disaster, you might let your representatives know.