Posted on 08/30/2013 11:45:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
President Barack Obama is setting a new precedent in America's history as an imperialist power. He is all but apologizing before he orders a military attack against a sovereign country with which the United States is not at war and which has not offended America's vital interests and concerns as a sovereign country even remotely.
The Obama administration is publicizing in advance that it is going to be a "limited" military attack by the US on Syria. It is even willing to give advance notice of when the attack can be expected. Who would say Obama is not a humane and considerate statesman?
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However, the most profound lesson coming out of all this as the US begins the countdown of an attack on Syria lies somewhere else: Why Syria, why not North Korea?
The answer is clear. As CNN's military analysts are at pains to explain, this is going to be a military operation that incurs no risk of US casualties. The attack on Syria will be staged from the blue sea with cruise missiles - not even aircraft flown by US pilots lest they get shot down.
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No matter the outcome of the imminent US attack on Syria, which is bound to have tragic consequences, Tehran should take a momentous decision to safeguard against such aggression. The only way it can do that will be by having the deterrent power that North Korea possesses, which keeps predators away.
World opinion will understand. The meek also have a moral right to defend themselves - even if they are far from inheriting the earth as God prophesied. Let this be Obama's finest presidential legacy - a nuclear Iran.
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“Finesse”?
Hussein?
Don’t make me laugh.
Fearless leader is a traitor and a war criminal.
Plus he needs to give back his Nobel prize.
The War Lover...
“His Royal Swineness”
Bhadrakumar is an anti-American ex-Indian diplomat who’s been toeing the Indian line that Iranian nukes aren’t a bad thing for the last decade. Conveniently for India, breaking international trade sanctions imposed on Iran helps line the pockets of a lot of Indian officials. He obviously thinks Americans are morons who can’t figure out that he’s talking his book. Stuff like this why India will never be an American ally in the way the NATO countries are - with diplomacy, as with trade, finance and just about anything else the Indians touch, naked self-interest trumps everything previously agreed-upon. In their dealings with foreigners, they make the Chinese look like models of rectitude.
“Who would say Obama is not a humane and considerate statesman?”
I presume there was heavy sarcasm behind that statement. “Humane and considerate” are not adjectives I would apply, and anybody with a sense of decency is shocked and appalled at any such characterization. People will die if these missile strikes are carried out, the vast majority of them would be non-combatants, and there is no way to distinguish from the view available for the guidance of a cruise missile.
The US was slammed and slandered because of the many Iraqis who died because of the US presence in that country, but in fact, the majority of them died as collateral damage wrought by the retreating Saddam Hussein partisans, and subsequent guerrilla actions before the country was pacified to a tolerable degree.
If we go launching our artillery and missiles into Syria, then, by the same reasoning so gleefully applied by the critics, ALL the casualties in Syria will be due to action of the US military.
More than anybody else, Jean-Francois Kerre` should understand how that logic works, as he has applied it to just about every conflict the US has participated in in the last half-century. And as you know, the current US Secretary of State once served in Viet Nam, so he speaks with first-hand authority. Most generally believes he is right, too. Just ask him.
Are these CNN's military analysts in possession of a signed document from Hassad promising not to retaliate if attacked???
Do these analysts really believe that Syria doesn't have missiles capable of hitting our ships in the Med?
Here’s how this will go down: US strikes Syria, Syria strikes Israel w WMD, Israel nukes Tripoli, Cairo, Damascas, Beruit, Bagdad, Tehran, Riyadh, Kuwait, and Yemen. Did I miss anything?
Mecca.
Istanbul
So far so good.....
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