The right-wing freaks out about Syria

Roy Edroso does his usual spectacular job capturing right-wing reactions to the debate on Syrian intervention? Astonishingly (okay, not really), conservatives are suddenly horrified that Israel might be pushing for us to attack an Arab state (Israel has been advocating for an attack on Iran for a while, but they were fine with it then); Iraq war supporters are suddenly worried things will go horribly wrong. Yes, that would be a good sign if they meant it, but I have a strange feeling they’ll recover their bloodlust as soon as we get a Repub back in the Oval Office.
And that’s the rational analysis. We also have accusations Obama planted the weapons to justify an invasion. Or Glenn Reynolds arguing that the reason people are reluctant to go to war is not that the Iraq invasion was a disaster of incompetence but that liberals criticized it! Or that Obama (at Edroso’s link again) is deliberately mismanaging things so that he can discredit the United States even further!
Meanwhile, on the pro-war side, we have, God help us, arguments from UN Ambassador Susan Rice that somehow Syria using WMDs is a threat to national security (“”Opening a door to their use anywhere threatens the United States and our personnel everywhere.”).
For good measure, my past post on this topic.
One thing Obama should always keep in mind is that no matter how militaristic he gets, the right wing will never see him as anything but a Democrat Peacenik Traitor.
UPDATE: And here’s Ann Coulter who wants to know why Arabs dying from poison gas should bother anyone: “aren’t these the same people that attacked us on September 11th? Look, the system is working; Arabs are killing Arabs, and that means in the future there will be fewer of them trying to kill us.”
Um, no, it wasn’t “Arabs” who tried to kill us on 9/11, it was a specific organization, al Qaeda. Arguing that all Arabs bear some sort of blood guilt is like arguing Coulter is responsible for the KKK (insert the obvious punchline). Oh, and when her companion on the show said innocent civilians were getting killed, she dismissed his words as “liberal bullshit.”
That said, I could have done without the blog at the post opening with a shot at Coulter’s looks. It doesn’t affect the merits of her arguments, any more than it affects the merits of feminists. Coulter’s a loathsome excuse for a human being, but her being conservative is no excuse to get sexist.