Posted on 09/18/2013 6:30:34 AM PDT by nuconvert
As does the Wall Street Journal.
We've got a better idea at FreeRepublic: unleash our ability to produce energy, and let the Middle East choke on their sand and oil. The ME does not have to be a strategic interest of the US.
You may be right but, if so, it backfired because the Shi'ites took control of Iraq (for the moment, anyway).
America is a nation in decline.. as such it has to marshal its resources inward, not for foreign adventures such as attacking countries that don’t threaten us.
LOL
The British provided a useful tool until America reached its full potential with the Great White Fleet. Starting first with the Spanish-American war, European banking interests made their move with the creation of the Fed in 1913, and used WWI to test out their new toy.
You can complain, protest and point out errors of US policy all day long, but it won't do a bit of good. Witness the elevation of a first-term senator with no visible past.
Play it as it lies. Stop paying attention to daily rhetoric and focus on long-term trends. The US, like GB before it, has been hollowed out and is in decline. We'll know the game is really up when the banks starting moving to Russia.
Yep. Good points!
That’s good news about Michigan. Maybe we could do something similar here in Pennsylvania hunting country. :)
Alpong with “World’s policeman” comes the really fun stuff- World’s debt collector, World’s raw materials extortionist, World’s porn distributor, World’s culture corruption via advertising cheer leaders...the list is as long as your monkey tail.
Let’s see. We ignore some country’s sovereign rights, go in and kill some innocent people and their dogs, if they have any, all while saying it’s for their own good and violating any constitutional restrictions. By golly, we are the world’s policeman.
Is Prager shilling for the Saudis? America has more debt than any other country, so why this now?
Let’s take a look at how their caliphate has been working out...as soon as a dictator is deposed, you get the sunnis and shiites getting in line to kill each other. Generally if you just leave this region alone they are quite content to fight amongst themselves.
The police are working with the criminals in Syria.
O pull the trigger, Prager / We’re
with you all the way / Just across the Bay
“Fieldmarshal Prager needs to stop flapping his gums and show us how its done on his own dime.”
Indeed. Some of us learned from history. Field Marshall Prager has not.
Anyone wanting to fight Assad is more than free to go to Syria, join Al Queda and live their deeply held principles - otherwise, they need to stfu. Leave the US military out of this one. It’s time for those advocating an attack on Syria to put up or shut up.
Of course, we already know they wont.
My favorite Kipling work:
You may talk o’ gin and beer
When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere,
An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it;
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of ‘im that’s got it.
Now in Injia’s sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin’ of ‘Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them blackfaced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.
He was “Din! Din! Din!
You limpin’ lump o’ brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippery ~hitherao~!
Water, get it! ~Panee lao~!
You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din.”
Rudyard Kipling bump
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