Posted on 08/30/2013 12:43:55 AM PDT by TexGrill
A group of 66 foreign policy “experts” signed a letter on Tuesday urging President Obama to conduct unrestricted military strikes against the Syrian government after last week’s deadly gas attack on civilians.
“Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has once again violated your red line, using chemical weapons to kill as many as 1,400 people in the suburbs of Damascus,” the letter begins.
“We urge you to respond decisively by imposing meaningful consequences on the Assad regime,” it continues, advocating for the use of “standoff weapons and airpower” against the forces responsible for deploying chemical weapons.
The experts also express support for a broader military campaign, including attacks on “pillars of the Assad regime” and an “accelerate[d] effor[t] to vet, train, and arm moderate elements of Syria’s armed opposition, with the goal of empowering them to prevail against both the Assad regime and the growing presence of Al Qaeda-affiliated and other extremist rebel factions in the country.”
“Left unanswered, the Assad regime’s mounting attacks with chemical weapon will show the world that America’s red lines are only empty threats,” the letter concludes. “It is a dangerous and destabilizing message that will surely come to haunt us.”
The signatories come from a variety of professions and include policy analysts, former lawmakers and political consultants.
Former Minnesota Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty joined with former Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman and ex-Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in signing the letter.
Republican political strategist Karl Rove was a co-signer, as was French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy and Ambassador Paul Bremer, the U.S. Administrator of Iraq immediately following America’s occupation in 2003.
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Idiots.
Billy Kristol, too.
Total idiot.
We now know Rove for exactly what he is.
A loathsome statist weasel.
Time for Rove to retire.
The “experts’ advocating yet another war based on flimsy excuses and it appears that none of them (at least those I see named) have ever served in the military.
Sometimes you really have to wonder about some of these Republicans.
I don’t buy the idea that Assad would risk using chemical or biological weapons while he was winning. He had everything to lose by doing so.
Al Qaeda on the other hand would have everything to gain.
I can see Karl Rove being judged by history as the architect of America’s current woes.
Send Rove in.
I think you’re right.
Yes....idiots!
Why should the US intervene when our enemies are killing one another? Assad, AQ and the MB are all in the mix, and they are all enemies of the US.
Let it all shake out and THEN decide whether to become involved.
I’m getting tired of hearing the libs on TV saying we have to get involved because of humanitarian reasons!
The USA is not the world’s nanny!
The humanitarian reasons are so the Muslim Brotherhood can win and then kill every Christian in the country.
There are no Muslim humanitarians.
Rove and Romney, authors of ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE,
have suggested healthcare be paid for by US taxpayers
for Hezbollah previously.
They, the GOP, totally support Obama and Soros.
Not a scintilla of difference between the threats they pose.
Karl is a jerk and I don’t what he says.
That list reads like the who’s who of EPIC FAIL! bremer was the most incompetent and failed part of the iraqi occupation. Run from anything that bastard touches!
Rove and Lieberman, just two of many schmucks, who never served in the military, that are quick to send kids into harm’s way.
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