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David Grand In a similar situation, where President Obama, who is now agonizing over whether or not to punish Assad for the use of chemical weapons against his own people-by given the green light for the nearby destroyers to launch cruise missiles aimed at strategic targets-he wouldn’t have hesitated for a moment in giving the order to do so.
For he was not a man to waiver or have second thoughts about keeping his word, such as the promise Obama made to tolerate no crossing of the “red line” by Assad in resorting to using those illegal and inhumane weapons.
And Truman’s resolve to keep his word would but reaffirm the same sort of strong will and political courage he demonstrated so decisively by given the go-ahead to the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in WW II.
Moreover, he let the opinions of the naysayers in his inner circle who argued against taking such drastic action go, so to speak, in one ear and out the other. And thankfully he did, for by all estimates a land invasion of Japan would have cost the lives of 500,000 or more US troops.
So, the lesson that grows out of that, which Obama would do well to adhere to, is for him to be equally resolute in doing what his gut instincts tells him is the right course to follow as regards the punishment to be inflicted on Assad.
And in so doing, he’d shore up not only his now sagging reputation as the acknowledged leader of the free world, but also send the clear message to tyrants elsewhere that they’d better refrain from embarking on any similar inhumane, maltreatment of their people, lest they, too, be subject to more than just economic sanctions being imposed on them.
Quote of the day: “I never did give them hell; I just spoke the truth, and they thought it was hell.” Truman explains meaning of “give em hell Harry,” an oft-heard refrain from the crowds during his 1948 whistle-stop presidential campaign.
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