Posted on 11/22/2015 7:02:49 PM PST by WilliamIII
In an unusual alliance, a House Democrat and Republican have teamed up to urge the Obama administration to stop trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad and focus all its efforts on destroying Islamic State militants.
Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat, and Austin Scott, a Republican, introduced legislation on Friday to end what they called an "illegal war" to overthrow Assad, the leader of Syria accused of killing tens of thousands of Syrian citizens in a more than four-year-old civil war entangled in a battle against IS extremists, also known as ISIS.
"The U.S. is waging two wars in Syria," Gabbard said. "The first is the war against ISIS and other Islamic extremists, which Congress authorized after the terrorist attack on 9/11. The second war is the illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad."
Scott said, "Working to remove Assad at this stage is counter-productive to what I believe our primary mission should be."
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Ba’athists? Their co-founder was also Syrian Christian. When Arab imperialism is more important, how Christian is that?
“how Christian is that?”
You seem very unconcerned about the fate of Christians, so your question doesn’t deserve an answer. You’ve exposed yourself on this thread as hostile to Syria’s Christians. No need for any more comments from me.
How Christian are the Christians in question? If they are hostile to Jesus by saying in effect that Arab national socialism is more important, then they themselves have brought that question up and that is not hostility towards them since it is not Christianity that is the basis. It’s bad enough that Obama isn’t letting them in on the basis of their stated Christianity, but Putin seems fine letting them stay. Way too many open questions.
And I’m not the one who started with ad hominem. Saying one does not “deserve an answer” means that one has the answer and is unwilling to be forthcoming about it for fear that it may agree with some of the things I am putting forth.
I have been very taken by Gabbard since I first saw and heard her. She is very sensible, but she is separating herself from her fellow demorats and none of the powers-that-be in the demonrat party have called her down or criticized her.
Strange.
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