Posted on 10/02/2015 10:27:01 AM PDT by jimbo123
This was a bad idea when Fiorina pushed it yesterday and it’s still a bad idea today. Is one worse than the other, though? Fiorina wants an NFZ to protect American-backed rebels from Putin’s bombs; Hillary wants one for “humanitarian” reasons, the same sort of thinking that produced the paradise you and I know as modern Libya.
It’s worth risking a world war to help decide which barbarians ultimately prevail in Syria, no?
“I personally would be advocating now for a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air, to try to provide some way to take stock of what’s happening, to try to stem the flow of refugees,” Clinton said in an interview with NBC affiliate WHDH in Boston after a campaign event nearby…
White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest seemed to rule out the idea of a no-fly zone as recently as Tuesday. “On the no-fly zone, our position on that hasn’t changed, which is at this point that’s not something that we’re considering,” he told reporters during a gaggle aboard Air Force One. “It raises a whole set of logistical questions about how exactly what would be enforced, what sort of resources would be used to actually protect that area. So that’s why at this point we’ve indicated that that’s not something that we’re considering right now.”
Fiorina’s plan is targeted. Putin can do what he wants so long as he doesn’t mess with our guys on the ground. (Unless some of those guys defect to ISIS, I guess, in which case we’ll be bombing them ourselves.)
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The last no-fly zone we had was a 12 year failure.
Which credit card FioRino wants to use this time?
China? Japan? European Union? Russia?
Oh, nut wait, Russia is the one flying bombers in Syria.
I doubt they will let us borrow money to shoot down their aircraft.
When will these chicken-hawks realize we can’t fight wars on a credit card? Have they lost all sense of fiscal sanity? Did we learn anything from $2,000,000,000,000 more debt folly of Bush-43’s Iraq mis-adventure?
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Good, let Chelsea enlist and become a pilot.
I’d cook up a batch of popcorn and start a betting pool.
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