Posted on 09/05/2013 2:56:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz, Bill Lee, and Rand Paul are isolationists, per Jennifer Rubin, the in-house neocon at the Washington Post. Throw in Sarah Palin, too. The senators and former governor want nothing more than two briny oceans to defend the nation from the world's predators and cutthroats. Heck, maybe they don't even want militias.
Palin and the three rising conservative stars are secret America Firsters. "Lindbergh" is their password. Shhh!
Hands up, guys and gal, Jennifer Rubin's outed you.
It's more like Rubin tarred y'all, pinning America First buttons on your lapels all by her lonesome, to the gloating approval of Barack's buddy, John McCain, and his sidekick, Lindsey Graham (Tonto to the neocons). You see, Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Palin believe that intervening in Syria serves no American national security interest. Rubin, neocon she, thinks that America's national security interest is just about anything the neocons say it is.
National security is just taffy to neocons, to be pulled and stretched to suit whatever intervention they think is useful to American "credibility" or that's humanitarian in character. Neocons have previously identified genuine needs for military action. Let's gladly concede the last, as surely as the senators and Palin would do. The first Gulf War would be an instance, though the war wasn't a humanitarian venture; it served concrete U.S. interests.....
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Boom!!!
Where's the line to sign up. Count me in as an "America Firster!"
The pity is, our president is NOT an America Firster!
And hell, we had a much better case to get involved in those countries than the one being offered for Syria.
Aside from that, people forget their was a strong anti-war movement across the political spectrum in the 30s. A well-earned hangover from World War I.
No blood for ego.
For Rubin, it’s as if the (2nd) Iraq and Afghanistan wars never happened. We were/are there for 10 years, we lost thousands of soldiers, the people in the Middle East seem to hate us for it, people are still dying on a daily basis, and the future of both countries remains uncertain. So tell me again what we are supposed to accomplish in Syria with a couple of missile strikes? Rubin is guilty of magical thinking.
Lindbergh was a national hero, a great American, and was right about everything he warned about.
He was also a Nazi sympathizer.
Neocons are liberals. Look up the history.
They act as if the Battle of the Somme never happened.
Great meme. Art thou English? Spelling harbour?
Lindberg acquitted himself well, as did many others who sought not to get involved with Europe’s war, after Pearl Harbor, serving the cause of defeating the Axis. Hindsight is 20-20.
If there were a real threat to America, Rand, Palin, Cruz, et al would be praising the Lord, and passing the ammunition. This little Saudi Proxy Syrian dust up, not so much.
Not my meme, maybe a Brit or Aussie created it.
Bloody brilliant one I’d say, old chap.
Um... isn't that Mike Lee, "Thinker"?
Lindberg did make one mistake.
He was shown lots of German aircraft and factories, and took that information back to the US. Of course the numbers of aircraft he was shown was calculated to inflate the opinion of German strength.
That wasn’t his fault. He was not a data analysis. Only after the war was the limitations of German manufacturing known.
I hope on this site we can all be America First. That is simple. The problem is what should we who want America to be First to do.
Can we trust this administration’s assessment that Assad’s regime is responsible for chemical attacks? My answer is no.
Can we trust this administration’s assessment that they can attack Assad without helping Al Queda elements among the rebels? My answer is no.
When the regime’s entire policy consists of lies and cronyism, that reduces their credibility. When the boy crys wolf, eventually people don’t believe him. I don’t believe him.
Perhaps this would be a good time to pray that evil Assad kills and is killed by evil Al Queda, and we will wait until the players are more clear. Certainly there will be plenty of time to attack the winner later.
I could really care less about Syria, its not in our national interest but I don’t have a problem with dispatching to Allah a few more of our Muslim enemies.
Cruz has said he would not allow Iran to get a nuke..as long as he means what he says about Iran he has my support...
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