— and of trying to establish that this Commander-in-Chief is more than simply a "Woman Running for President," as Gail Collins, the Times' editorial-page editor, recently summed up the real-world predicament of women in politics.
The proper role of Congress was to get out of the way and give this commander-in-chief carte blanche so that the next one would enjoy comparably unlimited prerogatives.
That's what this is really all about - not actually confronting an alleged "urgent threat to our national security" (because Obama's Army experts say that would take 600,000 troops, not 100,000 troops), but merely generating an image that projects the "resolve of this commander-in-chief".
"There isn't anybody with a straight face that can question the resolve of this commander-in-chief to put the appropriate resources on what he believes was an urgent threat to our national security," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
"This may be the Commander-in-Chief's navy," warns Gene Hackman's hardcase skipper in Crimson Tide, "but this is my boat".
In September 1917, not long after General Edmund Allenby became Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Chauvel wrote to GHQ to point out the injustice done to his front-line troops, acknowledging that it was "difficult to do anything now to right this, but consider the Commander-in-Chief should know that there is a great deal of bitterness over it".
While all this was going on, the Commander-in-Chief continued to send missives via Twitter directed this time at the federal judiciary itself.
"I believe that to be the Commander-in-Chief of this group, you should be held to the same standards".
Given this record, the pronouncements of the Commander-in-Chief were hardly an accurate depiction of our Union.
"You can make economic arguments about it, but at the end of the day, the last big argument is the commander-in-chief says this is important for national security and strategy.
