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Maybe the war in Syria will be the distraction.

• ChuckMcM 13y ago
  It sounds really tinfoil hatish to say that but I worry about that too. Nothing like jumping into war to take the citizens minds off what ever it is they are going on about. I'd prefer it was some sort of 'good news' distraction of course.
  • anigbrowl 13y ago
    That is tinfoil hattish. The Syria situation has been brewing for years, and the strategic factors that make it into a hard problem run back decades. I'm surprised we've managed to keep out of it this long.
    • ChuckMcM 13y ago
      I don't disagree. I keep hoping that passing meaningful immigration reform is the actual distraction planned.
      • anigbrowl 13y ago
        That too has been in the works for many, many years. The public is distractable, but as I've repeatedly pointed out, only a small section of the public cares all that much about this issue to begin with. It's not logical to posit that everything else in DC is taking place in relation to the NSA scandal, any more than it was logical to assume that everything in DC revolved around the Benghazi thing last year. Now, a major new administration initiative that appeared out of the blue in the last 2-3 weeks would probably be a distraction, but it's unrealistic to expect every part of government to stop what its doing until everyone has argued out the NSA issue.
• user24 13y ago
  Isn't that the point of the article?