Rep. Alan Grayson spoke to MSNBC's Craig Melvin this Friday following Sec. John Kerry's speech on Syria and remained unmoved on whether it is in the national security interest of the United States to get involved there, and told Melvin that the United States cannot be the policeman for the rest of the world.

Grayson still had reservations, as he'd expressed to Slate prior to Kerry's speech, on the evidence of just who used the chemical weapons. He also told Melvin that President Obama should have to go to Congress first for approval before he goes into Syria.

Here's to hoping it's not falling on deaf ears, but I'm not holding my breath. There are a whole lot of bad and even worse outcomes that could take place if we start dropping bombs and this thing escalates. I don't have the same doubts on whether it's likely that Assad was the one responsible for the chemical attacks that Grayson expressed here and in the Slate article, but I agree with Grayson that we should not be the world's policeman. I also agree with him that we should make the Congress vote on this if they want to go in there, and if we do go in, it should be with some international coalition and not unilaterally.

Here's to hoping some cooler heads prevail in the end. We need another war with another country in the Middle East like we need a hole in our heads and as Grayson said, we should be tending to our own garden first. We're always too broke to take care of our own citizens, but we've always got the money to start another war and feed the military Congressional industrial complex.

Rough transcript below the fold.