really? Uh?
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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really? Uh?
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.
Well I gave up in 2008, so I’m pretty much over it now.
It’s like that Elvis Costello lyric goes, “Well I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.”
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.
I’m laughing too. :D
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.
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.
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.”
These Syrians mock a psychotic narcissist at their own peril.
These Syrians mock a psychotic narcissist at their own peril.
Who happens to have a very large stick.
5.56mm
obama will attack when he gets bored.
Yeah, it’s relatives, too.
Wink... yes it is, sad to say. ;^)
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...
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...
On politics, the wise would at least remember the consequences of the effort to nominate Hillary.
+1 to your post #27.
Precisely.
Amateur hour at 1600 Pennsylvania ave.
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