Jon Stewart was back from his summer vacation with a vengeance this Tuesday and he let the Obama administration have it for the push for military intervention in Syria. Stewart, like a lot of us, wanted to know why the push now to go in there when we've already seen a hundred thousand Syrians slaughtered by other means than chemical weapons, and thinks he found his explanation.
After pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of the United States making an issue of another country using chemical weapons, Stewart showed several clips of pundits and Sen. Ted Cruz saying we're going to look weak, and "that bullies and tyrants don't respect weakness," Stewart responded:
STEWART: Oh right! We have to bomb Syria because we're in seventh grade! And the red line... the red line that they crossed is actually a dick-measuring ribbon.
Why does holding back look like weakness? Isn't it maturity? It's like when a guy's picking on Clark Kent and he doesn't do anything, even though he knows he could throw that guy into the sun.
I'll tell you what would be real weakness, Clark Kent laying waste to a town because someone called him a pussy.
You know what else is weakness? Asking the advice of a plague of idiots who got the same issue completely wrong in Iraq -- or as those people are known on cable... experts.Cue Paul Bremer, Donald Rumsfeld and Bloody Bill Kristol doing just that.
STEWART: Hey everybody! The idiot parade is in town! Shut the f**k up! Shut the f**k up!....And on he went. My thoughts exactly any time I see one of them on the television. Welcome back Jon.
Thanks to Crooks & Liars. The above commentary by Heather.