http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/09/is-united-states-going-to-go-to-war.html
Posted on 08/15/2014 4:14:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
France’s decision this week to arm Kurdish fighters in the battle against Islamic militants marked a turning point in Europe’s wavering stance on Iraq, with an EU emergency meeting on Friday seeking to forge a unified response to the Sunni insurgents’ advance.
The 2003 U.S.-led Iraq invasion created a bitter rift across the European Union and the bloc has since been loath to get involved in the country, but the militants in Iraq and Syria who threaten to reshape the Middle East have raised the stakes by drawing more than 1,500 European radicals to their ranks.
After weeks of near-silence during which Europeans apparently considered Iraq an exclusively American problem, the imminent plight of refugees and the threat of Islamic State militants overrunning yet more of the country prompted the 28-nation bloc to cut short a holiday weekend and convene an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers. …
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So, sitting at a bar in Vietnam, was thinking, since I have now been to both Cambodia, and Vietnam, can I now be secretary of state? i can fix this, maybe a few shiny new glass parking lots
——the stakes have been raised-——
That line illustrates complete misunderstanding
I would argue that the invasion of Iraq created a new game that the stuffed shirts of Europe did not know how to play. That new game has been over for several years now and a completely new game has begun.
The new game is easier and has more players. It is less expensive and the outcome could include new trade opportunities. It can all be blamed on moral outrage
Merde, schweinerei... the US can blow anything & anyone to kingdom come, if it wanted to. The EU only follows US actions last few decades.
The citizens have provided blood and treasury to protect Europe since the end of WWII
This allowed Europe to spend what they would have spent on military defense to be spent on increasing socialist programs.
The threat of overwhelming military response from the United States had kept wars small and manageable (I am convinced now it was never the US policy to win any of these “brush” wars, but only to contain them. A sort of proxy war between the Soviets and the US.
While Americans were on the front line dying and the home front paying more in taxes to defend the world against tyrants, Europeans were mocking and criticizing Americans.
Well guess what Europeans, you got your fondest wish. An American president that believes what you believe. All evil in the world is the fault of America. If only America would disarm the world would be a better place.
I hope all you who opposed a strong America are paying attention to what is occurring when Muslims think they have the power to do what ever they want, because you have allowed them into your countries by the millions.
One of these mornings you are going to wake up and discover the killing and raping is not just going on in Iraq, but in your own cities. Who are you going to call to save your ass?
America?
You and the leftest in this nation have done everything they can to weaken the United States. Do you really think we will be able to fight the Muslims in our countries and send aid to help you?
WWIII has been going on for a long time but our ruling elite has either been blind to it, or has been supporting our enemies. Either way, we will enter the war like we entered WWII, weak. Fortunately in WWII we had two oceans between us and the fighting. That is not true today. We have an administration that has opened our borders and we have no way of knowing just who is crossing. Harmless children, or an army of terrorist.
What would have been the outcome of WWII is we had allowed millions of German Nazi into our country a few years before the outbreak of war, and these Nazi were sent with the specific purpose of waging war on our soil. At minimum the war in the Pacific and Europe would have lasted longer, at worse, the Allies would have lost the war.
How many Americans will die in the next conflict because we have allowed the socialist to take over every segment of our society?
If I know nothing else, I do know that 99% of those who support the left will not like the utopia that they hope to create. A good portion of them will be standing in line on the way to the ovens along side of the conservatives who opposed the move to the left.
-Rant over-
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/09/is-united-states-going-to-go-to-war.html
Isn’t there also a proposal for a leg under the sea from northern Syria to Greece?
Yes, it’s shown as the green dashed line in the second map.
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Qatari Pars field! Hope they make it.
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