Lash and Rope

If Barack Hussein Obama is intent on giving up his long-held anti-imperial and anti-colonial posturing and embarking on a foreign adventure in Syria, he should study how Great Britain threw her weight around when the sun never set on her empire. The British exercised unmitigated cruelty at home and abroad, using both corporal and capital punishment with stunning regularity, holding their rule by spreading fear, and by projecting force to the distant corners of the earth with the leading navy of the world to that time. I have my doubts that Obama has the stomach for imposing his will through Draconian means, and I know Obama has decimated the US military, including of course, the Navy. If Obama wants to flex American muscle in Syria, he should look to Rome versus Carthage, and how the Romans subjected their foes to utter destruction, or to the abject subjugation of conquered peoples by England when she held her empire and do a gut check to see if he has what it takes to play in the conquerors' league.