Chris Matthews channeled his inner-Helen Thomas on Tuesday, railing against Barack Obama's "disastrous" plan for military strikes against Syria. Matthews and a panel of liberals decried the idea as "utterly confusing. Matthews mocked the proposed goal of sending a message to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, excoriating, "Will this mysterious signal get delivered? Will a signal go to Assad that he will never again use chemical weapons?"
Matthews raged against air strikes on Syria, insisting, "In other words, the only thing we really know is we'll be killing poor people, committing an act of war with this notion that somehow it's smoke signals." The usually pro-Obama Howard Fineman appeared perplexed by the administration's presentation to the U.S. Senate on Monday: "...The only message we're sending to the world is one of confusion....It's just utterly confusing."
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