“NO, to any US military action in Syria.”
FROM COLONEL ALLEN WEST TODAY
“Watched Senators McCain and Graham’s press conference after their meeting with President Obama on the subject of Syria. It seems the tagline to be used is ‘degrade Assad and upgrade the resistance.’ I hate to be the one to ruin the party, but this administration did exactly that in Libya and never considered the unintended consequences. Now in Libya we have a proliferation of Islamist forces who are training terrorist insurgents to head to Syria, supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, as well as a consulate attack resulting in the death of four Americans, one being an Ambassador. In Egypt we ‘deposed’ Mubarak and enabled the Muslim Brotherhood and the unintended consequences are a civil war in Egypt and increased persecution of the Coptic Christians. So here we go again with the Obama administration, and useful tools from Congress, embarking America on a nebulous endeavor in the Middle East without consideration of the untended consequences. The opposition in Syria are Islamists supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Obama administration has not supported the Free Syrian Army under COL Riad. NO, to any US military action in Syria. The Obama administration has a confused Middle East policy and has shown ineptness in understanding the second and third order effects”
wow
The “resistance” in Syria has devolved into an insurgency dominated by by foreign, non Syrian Al Qaeda fighters - literally the same guys we have been fighting in Iraq and who we recently drove out of Iraq and back into the Syrian safe havens they had been using as a staging ground for their war against America in Iraq.
Assad's game of supporting the Iraq insurgency and letting Al-Qaeda into syria and use Syria as a staging ground for is coming back to bite him in the ass.
Assad deserves what he is getting, but we do not need to hand Syria over to the guys we have been fighting in Iraq as consolation prize for killing Americans and terrorizing , torturing and murdering Iraqi civilians.
How about degrading both the Assad regime AND the insurgents.
Heck, especially the insurgents. Not much of chance of that as Obama and a lot of our Congress men seem to be taking sides with Al Qaeda