Posted on 08/28/2013 5:48:30 AM PDT by shortstop
Syria isn’t our war.
It doesn’t involve us, it isn’t our business, we don’t want any part of it.
Obama and the boys are about to start World War III and the American people are sitting here wondering what in the hell is going on.They show us some video of dead kids on the evening news and all of a sudden the White House spokesman is talking about how we must respond.
We?
When did we sign off on that?
John Kerry talks in his big-boy voice and various murmurings escape from 10 Downing Street and now we’re counting destroyers and submarines and deciding whether we will bombard them for days or weeks.
What in the frig is going on?
In America, the Constitution says that the people, through the most democratically elected portion of the federal government, must declare wars. The Founders figured that if we the people were going to have to supply the blood and the treasure to fight these wars, then we the people ought to be the ones who decide whether or not we go to war.
We castrated that part of the Constitution years ago, and now some numbnut goes off script and says something about a “red line” and to save face people have to die. It’s amateur hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and we’re about to make the rubble bounce.
Which is like striking a match at a gasoline spill.
This mother trucker looks like it has the potential to go sideways on us right from the jump.
Here’s how.
First off, we’ve about killed our military. We’ve overextended it for more than a decade and cut its budget while we’ve done so. More missions and fewer soldiers and less spending and we’ve run out of airspeed and altitude. We’ve crashed the mother ship, doing in a decade what the Nazis and the Soviets couldn’t do between them in half a century.
The world’s last remaining superpower is a paper tiger and everybody knows it but us.
And now we’re going to stick our nose in one more Muslim bloodbath.
We got bloodied in Iraq. We got bloodied in Afghanistan. We’ve lost influence in Libya and control in Egypt, and now Obama wants one more slobber knocker to round out his Wreck America Now tour.
China says don’t you dare, Russia says don’t you dare, Iran says don’t you dare, and the White House shill says we must. Somebody comes up with some video for the network news, and it’s out of our hands.We live in a world where one kind of Muslim or one kind of African tribalist is genociding another on a daily basis, when daily death counts are typically in the hundreds, and all of a sudden these particular dead children necessitate the destabilizing of world order.
It’s a tragic heartbreak, but it is the horrifically predictable way of the world. And we’ve got to realize that we can’t make it all better. We’ve got to realize that we can’t let ourselves be manipulated into being cannon fodder for the people in Washington or Riyadh anymore.
As if on cue, we had the convergence of children, nerve gas and plenty of video cameras. Just in time to provide a smoking gun for the long-building desire of the White House to get into the Syrian fight, voila, we’ve got our casus belli.
Even Joe Biden says we must fight.
Let’s take a Louisville Slugger and smash it into that Middle Eastern house of cards and see how it works out. Who attacks Israel, who attacks us, how many American civilians get the jihad treatment, it’s all up in the air.
All we know is that the peace president can taste his second war and that he kind of gets turned on being called the commander in chief. The man who condemned Iraq has escalated Afghanistan and is about to start Syria.
With virtually no support from the American people.
We don’t want this war.
But we’re going to get it.
And we’re going to pay for it.
In more ways than one.
oh wait!......what difference does it make?
oh wait!......what difference does it make?
The only Americans supporting Barry Bonaparte’s war will be the Code Pink crowd, the despicable hypocrites who said that Iraqi WMDs moved into Syria was a lie.
No one knows the day or the hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows. (NLT, Matthew 24:36)
But look at all the beacons of freedom we’ve created Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. LOL
LET’S KEEP OUR NOSE OUT OF SYRIA - seriously.
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Thank-you. We cannot get into speculation. Just pray.
I heard a few times that LBJ’s wife or other family member did well selling Quonset huts and to the mlitary during VN.
If there is one thing we have learned in recent times is that you are just really opening a can of worms when you go in there. Unless it is really important you just leave these people alone to kill each other in peace.
” Based on the recent past history Obama will drop a few bombs, declare victory and move on.”
My guess as well.
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