How to distract good citizens

In the past few months several big scandals have come to the attention of the American public, courtesy of this administration. There is the killing of 4 great Americans in Benghazi. Noone has been punished for it and the truth of how it happened and why, even though there were appeals to help and protect the American consulate, have not been divulged by the State Department, the UN ambassador or the commander-in-chief. There is the scandal by the IRS, who targeted conservative groups and certain religious groups by denying them tax free status and harrassing them with inappropriate questions. There is the scandal by the NSA, who collects telephone conversations and Internet conversations of ordinary American citizens, supposedly to keep us safe, but this endeavor could not prevent the Boston marathon bombings, even though they were warned by the 2 perpetrators' e-mails and by Russian telephone calls. The citizens and Congress want answers to all these scandals and want to clean up this mess in all seriousness and with great efforts, so what happens, Syria happens. Syria has been waging a civil war and thousands of Syrians, women and children have been killed for the past two years. Nothing much was done about it by our administration, except a few speeches were given of how terrible this is, but now that the above scandals are preoccupying the citizens and Congress, the commander-in-chief wants to attack Syria. Everybody is "up in arms" at this proposal, about 90% of We The People do not want any part of it, but the commander-in-chief declares that whether Congress approves or not, he will go ahead and attack Syria. All the newspapers, the radio and the TV news are now preoccupied with the topic of Syria, and the mess of scandals in our country is forgotten by the real distraction and anxiety over Syria. Did anyone see the movie "Wag the Dog"?