Naked Frankness Breaking Crushing Hypocrisy’s Noise

I side with Will Self.

Obama Serves Imperialism

Obama, Congress and Syria by Glenn Greenwald

… I vividly remember watching then-Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden practically begging the Bush White House to "allow" Congress to vote on the attack while promising in advance that they would approve for it).

But what makes the celebratory reaction to yesterday's announcement particularly odd is that the Congressional vote which Obama said he would seek appears, in his mind, to have no binding force at all. There is no reason to believe that a Congressional rejection of the war's authorization would constrain Obama in any way, other than perhaps politically. …

Martin Rowson: