Moderate muslims are like Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and patriotoc democrats..
Many say they exist but no one has actually seen one.
Posted on 09/16/2014 1:19:54 PM PDT by Bettyprob
I’m dying to know what this guy knows to make him think our quixotic project to essentially build an army in Syria from scratch is worth publicly endorsing. I can’t recall reading a single analysis lately that’s bullish about it; the best-case scenario seems to be that the “moderates” will end up being ineffective but not egregiously counterproductive. As it is, this authorization request seems like a naked attempt by O to get Republicans to sign on to the part of his strategy that’s most likely to backfire so that he can share blame later.
Happy to oblige, says the Speaker.
“I frankly think the president’s request is a sound one. I think there’s a lot more that we need to be doing, but there’s no reason for us not to do what the president asked us to do,” the Ohio Republican said.
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Oh what a great idea... boehner only wants to arm the guys who now have a non-agression pact with Isis
Moderate muslims are like Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and patriotoc democrats..
Many say they exist but no one has actually seen one.
What good are the Republicans? Can they be this dense?
There are no good guys in the middle east. They’re all bearded savages. Some are worse than others. Arming these bastards will come back to haunt us.
obumbler overthrew Kadafi, and how did that turn out?
obumbler overthrew the Egyptian government, or at least made it easier, and how did that turn out? It would have been the worst disaster of all had not the Egyptian people taken things into their own hands and got rid of the Muslim Brotherhood....and what did obumbler do? He tried to make the Egyptian people take the Muslim Brotherhood back and threatened to cut off our foreign aid if they did not. Luckily they hung tough.
What will happen if obumbler overthrows Assad?
The result will be even worse as ISIS will own Syria.
We should be arming Assad with the condition that he kill every ISIS.
Assad is a single person. We know where he lives. He could be managed as Reagan managed Kadaffi. ISIS is impossible to deal with or manage other than killing every last one of them.
Assad is not nearly as dangerous to us as is ISIS.
It would be a lot more effective, and cheaper in the long run, to provide the Kurdish Peshmerga with a full range of modern weapons, and tell them, anything you take away from the ISIS is yours.
Including all the territory the ISIS now holds.
Turkey would be able to build a dozen cities, with all the bricks they would crap out. And right now, Turkey is an enemy. Regardless of whether they are a part of NATO or not.
Turkey is the gateway through which ISIS is selling oil on the black market, and the entry point for newly recruited ISIS fighters.
We may even yet end up being allies to Bashar al-Assad. He might be an SOB, but he would then be OUR SOB, and not Iran’s.
In “1984” the switch from support of one side in the eternal war that was going on, it was a frequent change of one side to the other. Winston Smith’s full-time occupation then was to remove all references to the side that was the enemy the previous day, and re-insert documentation that provided “proof” that the one-time enemy had been on the side of Oceania all the time. Eurasia and Eastasia were the other two superpowers, which were constantly shifting alliances, but never with all three on the same side at any given time.
Now, more than ever, “1984” was almost eerily prescient.
Excuse me. It is time for the daily Two-Minute Hate.
How about those signing up for ISIS are directed to this US program, get free training and weapons and a paycheck. Then, they can join ISIS, good to go.
It is TOTALLY INSANE that the US is not on Assad's side, fighting to keep him in power, stabilize Syria, and disintegrate ISIS.
But off by 30 years. Now take IDIOCRACY. That's eerily prescient, but happening ahead of schedule.
Boehner is Exhibit A of what’s wrong with the Republican Party. But there are hundreds of other exibits too.
Sad day when a Democrat has more common sense than the GOP Speaker.
His Viking name—Boehner the Boneless.
Long time Isis embracer, than McQueeg.
So we are going to find a group of fighters who we will train and arm so that they can give up their fight against the Syrian regime and be our “boots on the ground” against against ISIS (and maybe other groups)? Come on, how much is Assad paying Obama?
I don't think Obama will find anybody willing to fight for the USA.
Boner has his nose so far up Obunghole’s bunghole......
We should not be arming any group or nation that is hostile to the US, nor without ongoing US military supervision. These weapons, like those left behind in Iraq, will come back to haunt us.
Major error.
obumbler did nt overthrow Hussein.
Bush did that.
But it still was a major error.
In fact, our actions in the Mideast have been a disaster through four administrations Bush, Clinton, Bush and obumbler.
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