Posted on 09/19/2014 5:24:10 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
Prediction: This will come back to haunt the US many fold.
So, once again, the people we will be fighting two years from now will be people we trained, fighting with weapons we gave them. Brilliant.
Like we paid Solyndra to make solar panels?
So is he suggesting that we do nothing or that we send the army in and invade Syria?
Prediction: they won’t fight ISIS, and we will be effectively arming ISIS.
What if the newly armed ‘rebels’ turn and use their weapons against Assad instead of ISIS? Or they join up with ISIS? Or surrender to or are defeated by ISIS? What happens to the weapons? We have fools in DC and GOP just voted for Zero’s loser objectives. Rolled again by Bamster.
So Obama was given permission to arm,train, and finance rebels we can't be sure of? How's that going to work when the ones we were sure of, like ISIS, have created such a mess? They didn't even grow brains and decide to work with Assad and his military toward a common goal.
Why is this framed as ‘paying others to fight for us’?
This is not our fight so no one would be ‘fighting for us, in our place’.
Nor should we be there in person with our own troops fighting Assad ... or whomever the current person or group is that we are supposed to be fighting ... it seems very flexible and arbitrary at best.
I couldn’t agree with you more. That we will financing the large scale murder and injury of our troops and quite possibly many dozens of people here in the US absolutely sickens me.
More like a few weeks or days.
The Sultan in Washington is sure of them. He knows where the aid is going. He needs to offset the desultory air attacks he was forced to make on his friends.
Things get strange when a great nation chooses someone from among its enemies to be its ruler.
Cowardly Congress authorizes not very indirectly arming ISIS with more modern weapons and training.
What would it take?
Taking back the oilfields in Iraq (with existing Kurd regiments) would be a good start.
Now I'm confused because isn't that what this guy is talking about? "Pay others to fight?" I don't have a problem with arming the Kurds and letting them take on ISIS. They seem to be the only ones with the motivation to fight and win. But the author of this peace calls that cowardly. So aren't you supporting the cowardly path?
Finding ISIS money-making operations and destroying them, along with weapons caches is another step.
You can dry up ISIS funds through the international financial community. You don't need troops on the ground to do that.
Two days ago, Speaker “Blank Check” Boehner approved the spending of $ 500,000,000 of US Taxpayer Dollars to “train” 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels in Saudi Arabia for one year. IOW, another Boehner Bailout Bill to Obama.
Here are a few discussion points that were NOT mentioned by Boehner:
* Each Syrian Muslim Rebel will cost $ 100,000 to train.
* 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will be removed from the battlefields in Syria to a training site in Saudi Arabia for one year.
* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will leave their families with reduced protection from attack by Syrian Army troops, for one year.
* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will leave their families with NO protection from attack by ISIS troops, for one year.
* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels from the battlefields of Syria will help both the Syrian and ISIS troops to more easily take over areas controlled by the Syrian Muslim Rebels.
BTW, did anyone notice if before the US Senate approved Boehner’s Bailout Bill yesterday, did any US Senator mention that removing 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels from the battlefields of Syria, was in effect, “Giving aid and comfort to the ENEMY” for the period of one year?
boots on the ground means the wonderboy has now declared he is a flip-flop
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