[Colonel Kangaroo]

Quote about Syria from Cheney below. The differences between Cheney, John McCain and Obama are differences in tactics.

“I don’t think it’s been well handled,” Cheney said. “I will be the first to admit it’s a complex, difficult situation. I frankly think John McCain has it just about right. John and I don’t always agree on everything. We have had our debates over the years but I think John has pretty well nailed it. Now we are to the point where it’s hard to understand that it’s the use of chemical weapons that triggered this result. As John said the other day, well, there were 93,000 people killed not affected by chemical weapons. Where was the concern then? It’s not clear to me what the mission is here, or they understand the mission.”

Sounds to me like Cheney is with McCain in wanting to use the US military to help the Muslim Brotherhood's friends in Syria.

A move back towards traditional American conservative isolation is twenty years overdue. The New World Order is not a concept George Washington would approve.

[Servant of the Cross]

A move back towards traditional American conservative isolation is twenty years overdue.

It would be nice to have that luxury. However, in the post 9/11 world of Islamic extremists bent on the last caliphate, they won't permit 'isolation' as an option.

I fear for future developments if in fact they are going to continue to pursue the policy that this administration has pursued and live in accordance with affliction. We have got more territory now in that part of the world when you start to add up all the areas that have come or are coming under the influence of the Muslim brotherhood and the radical Islamists. There is a lot more land and territory there for safe harbors and sanctuaries for terrorists than we ever faced back in the time of 9/11. That entire part of the world appears to be or a good part of it certainly to be moving in the direction that is fundamentally hostile to the long term US interest and yet we are, seem to be unable to influence events in that part of the world partly because we are headed for the exits and everybody knows we are headed for the exits.

Influence events does not mean war. I think we've learned plenty from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.