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Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitates
Reuters ^ | September 1, 2013 | By Yara Bayoumy and Thomas Ferraro

Posted on 09/01/2013 7:51:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Syria hailed an "historic American retreat" on Sunday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a military strike to consult Congress.

"Obama announced yesterday, directly or through implication, the beginning of the historic American retreat," Syria's official al-Thawra newspaper said in a front-page editorial.

Syria's deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad accused Obama of indecision. "It is clear there was a sense of hesitation and disappointment in what was said by President Barack Obama yesterday. And it is also clear there was a sense of confusion as well," he told reporters in Damascus.

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To: Bulwyf
At least donkeys are still useful.

really? Uh?


81 posted on 09/01/2013 12:10:29 PM PDT by EBH (Is Damascus on the Eve of Destruction? Isaiah 17)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama and his are becoming a classic Kleenex Comedy of Errors. You have to laugh to keep from crying, but the tears come anyway for those who love the Nation we used to be.


82 posted on 09/01/2013 12:17:34 PM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

Well I gave up in 2008, so I’m pretty much over it now.


83 posted on 09/01/2013 12:18:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: trebb

It’s like that Elvis Costello lyric goes, “Well I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.”


84 posted on 09/01/2013 12:19:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DoughtyOne
Russia has just given Syria some anti-ship armaments. Does that sound like Russia is shaking in it's boots about what the U. S. might do in retaliation.

It doesn't work that way. Countries that fear us will avoid staging major attacks against us on our own soil that will result in large scale retaliation against them. Note that in the 80's, Hezbollah had no problem killing hundreds of Marines in Lebanon. It also hijacked a TWA jet and killed Robert Stethem. And the PLF hijacked the Achille Lauro and killed Leon Klinghoffer. But none of these entities thought of renting a semi, filling it up with fuel oil and fertilizer and bringing down a skyscraper on American soil to kill tens of thousands, thereby bringing on their heads* a decade's worth, and a trillion dollars' worth of destruction.

During the Cold War, the Soviets helped the Chinese and Vietnamese Communists win by funding them while we cut off aid to their non-Communist counterparts. But they stayed far away from initiating war with us. We could have tried interdicting those shipments, but that might have resulted in all-out war with the Russians. Ultimately, they fear us enough to not attack us directly on our own soil, but they have never been so fearful that they won't supply our adversaries.

* When bin Laden first struck on 9/11, he was extremely popular in the Muslim world, because Muslims thought he had found a way to hurt the US and there was nothing Uncle Sam could do about it. After Afghanistan and Iraq were attacked, bin Laden became less popular among Muslims not because they thought his methods were immoral, but because they perceived that he had brought the wrath of the US upon the ummah in such a way that killed large numbers of Muslims. Whatever we might feel about the losses we suffered, Muslims took far bigger losses and are much more wary about staging large scale attacks against us that might trigger a multi-year war against them.

85 posted on 09/01/2013 12:34:17 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m laughing too. :D


86 posted on 09/01/2013 12:34:34 PM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Do you honestly think the U. S. is going to unleash it's nukes on some nation? I don't.

It came down to body count. If we had lost 100,000 dead on 9/11, and Pakistan hadn't surrendered on the same day, we would have burned its cities to the ground. In a sense, Pakistan (and al Qaeda's other Muslim funders) was lucky that bin Laden only killed 3000 people. You're a good person, willing to leave vengeance to the Almighty. Plenty of people, right and left, are not, especially when their friends and relatives have been killed in large numbers. 3K dead wasn't sufficient to trigger genocidal rage. 100K would have been, and any president who resisted would have been removed from office.

87 posted on 09/01/2013 12:44:21 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: popdonnelly

Your point is well taken, but I just don’t see a threat to our national security other than Israel. For now, I think we keep our powder dry and see what the international community does. It’s not good for either Russio or China to let this go unpunished.


88 posted on 09/01/2013 1:00:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: mikrofon

The asshole always has his feet on the table. Poking the eyes of people who expect decorum in the Oval Office.

Biden looks like he’s thinking, “Crap, if this asshole gets impeached, I’m going to have to start actually doing something.”


89 posted on 09/01/2013 1:01:23 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These Syrians mock a psychotic narcissist at their own peril.


90 posted on 09/01/2013 1:02:50 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: hattend
Good afternoon.

These Syrians mock a psychotic narcissist at their own peril.

Who happens to have a very large stick.

5.56mm

91 posted on 09/01/2013 1:05:23 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Lazamataz

obama will attack when he gets bored.


92 posted on 09/01/2013 1:07:27 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yeah, it’s relatives, too.


93 posted on 09/01/2013 1:41:54 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Wink... yes it is, sad to say. ;^)


94 posted on 09/01/2013 1:43:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And WE think Zero is ineffective and gutless? What else does the world think about this wannabe dictator? He is reaping his crop. I can hardly wait til he implodes...


95 posted on 09/01/2013 2:11:04 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Gun Control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to buy cars)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s been obvious for a long time, that the majority of U.S. constituents with time and money for politics (the more vociferous of the 40 million or so receiving incomes from government) have no will fight foreign enemies. But they have been fantasizing much about exterminating their own neighbors at home. They don’t realize that instead of any “scenario” of an end to the world, their own gluttonous lives are naturally very limited. Vanities...


96 posted on 09/01/2013 2:25:30 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

On politics, the wise would at least remember the consequences of the effort to nominate Hillary.


97 posted on 09/01/2013 2:29:16 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Lazamataz

+1 to your post #27.


98 posted on 09/01/2013 3:03:00 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: hattend

Precisely.


99 posted on 09/01/2013 3:04:07 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Amateur hour at 1600 Pennsylvania ave.


100 posted on 09/01/2013 3:06:01 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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