Do you jump in to help, and which wretched beast do you help?
Idiots are in charge.
Posted on 08/28/2013 2:27:49 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
They only reason we are going is to save face for the Nobel peace prize winner that holds the red line...
I am sure not clear on who it was that used the chemical weapons from the Iraqi stockpile in Syria.
I strongly suspect that he considers the chance to help Islamists kill Christians an added bonus.
Not to side with Obama or against Rand Paul, but is this really true? Certainly the situation in Syria affects Israel and other countries in the region friendly to us.
“The war in Syria has no clear national security connection to the United States and victory by either side will not necessarily bring in to power people friendly to the United States,”
Hard to argue with that.
no sh*t Sherlock!
Israel and Saudi Arabia are friendly to us and have the resources at hand to deal with the mess they are living in.
Saudi Arabia keeps their friends close and their enemies even closer.
Do you jump in to help, and which wretched beast do you help?
Idiots are in charge.
Yes, this is really true. Assad is in a fight against al qaeda - the guys who killed 3,000 Amicans on 9/11. For some strange reason *cough, obama is a muslim brotherhood manchurian candidate* our presitard is hellbent on helping al qaeda. As long as the U.S. stays out of it, Syria is a problem for its dicatator and the terrorists to figure out. Once we start bombing and killing civilians in a show of force to punish Syria for killing civilians, we expose Israel to attack, not from Syria, but from Iran.
You have to be pretty stupid to interject yourself into a skunk fight.
Obama may want to wait until the paint all around the corner he is in has dried.
Not so fast. My guess is the U.S has interests in Syria especially because our ally, Israel, is affected by just about everything that goes on in Syria, not to mention Syria's ties to another dangerous rogue state trying to become nuclear, Iran. However, that is not say we should be somehow going to war against them. The so-called "Bush Doctrine" is stupid and anti-American.
Why do these people, movements, ideologies swing from one extreme to another? I'm a libertarian (small "L" - I'm in the Republican party) and I see no reason to be isolationist and pull the covers over our heads. Reagan had a good perspective in foreign affairs and defense. "We maintain the peace through our strength..." He was loyal to foreign allies and dealt carefully, wisely, circumspectly, but decisively with questionable and non-ally foreign countries. He seems to have been the last president to understand the use of sound verifiable intelligence to influence our interests abroad including stealth and surgical strikes when necessary instead of the mutton-headed baseball-bat diplomacy Bush favored in invading Iraq and setting the table for Obama to continue.
If King Obama would actually ask congress or present an argument to the American people, he was two possible positions:
1.) Secure or destroy the Chemical weapon so not to be use against the US or our Allies. Unfortunately, this strategy takes a lot of Balls with boots on the ground. We do not have Panetta or Hillary to send Obama to the gulf course, start the attack, then pull him off the golf course to "oversee" the operation.
2.) Obama could make the Hitler vs Stalin argument. Although the rebels will not support the US and will be a threat, it is better than Assad as an agent of Iran and the Shia Crescent. No way would the King admit to this.
However, after Syria turns into a terrorist day camp, the apologist for the King will spin the lesser of two evils and Obama knew this all along.
Tend to agree with Dr. Paul on this one.
Rand is absolutely correct.
Yes but Assad is aligned with Iran.
I’d have taken Assad out when we had our whole army in Iraq and he was supporting attacks on our troops. And we should have put a moderate government in power, not the al queda factions.
It doesn't work that way in that part of the world.
Woulda, shoulda, here we are in the real world. You either back Assad, or you back al qaeda, or you stay out of it. Choose.
Maybe not US interests but hussein has interests in those ill winds blowing against his bros.
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