Posted on 09/04/2013 10:09:58 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
STOCKHOLM — President Obama took his campaign for a punitive military strike against Syria overseas on Wednesday, declaring that “the international community cannot be silent” and that its credibility is on the line as his request for congressional approval of such action moved ahead in the Senate.
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If I correctly understand what the lunatics running our government are saying, Obama wants to bomb Syria to send Syria a powerful "message" via a limited war which isn't a war because bombing a sovereign country with cruise missiles isn't war "in the classic sense" because this is a "limited action" not aimed at regime change but rather aimed at degrading a tyrant but not toppling the tyrant who's gotta go because he's Hitler because he used chemical weapons on a small scale, so America must respond with no boots on the ground because there's no military solution in Syria but America's "credibility" is bound up in a foreign policy based on a "red line" which Obama says he didn't draw because "the world" drew it but Assad allegedly crossed it, which somehow obligates a single country -- America -- to "act" to restore the red line's "credibility" by launching a perfectly fine-tuned, highly calibrated limited "action" against Syria to prevent Syria from attacking Israel, North Korea from attacking South Korea and Iran from attacking Israel because the way to deter murderous, irrational and maniacal tyrants is by pinprick bombing and liberals never believe in the "Domino theory" except when it's convenient.
Unmistakably clear message, eh? During the George W. Bush years, liberals would argue hysterically that Bush attacked the wrong country -- Iraq -- in response to 9/11, a manifestly false charge. Now libbies argue ferociously that the way to deal with Iran is to attack the wrong country, Syria.
And after liberals had ludicrously insisted on Tuesday that wider American involvement in the Middle East is easy to avoid by simply doing in Syria something like a pinprick here, a pinprick there, here a pin, there a pin, everywhere a pinprick, and not picking sides in its civil war, yesterday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a couple of amendments with language about changing the battlefield momentum and arming 'opposition forces', which means picking sides in the civil war. Committee member John McCain, pausing momentarily from his Poker game, had earlier complained that the amount of military action authorized in the resolution wouldn't harm Syria enough, so Democrat Committee honchos, desperate to bail out the Nobel Peace Laureate's war, went along and the resolution, which Obama says he doesn't need to launch his humanitarian bombing anyway, got approved. While John Kerry yesterday was busy lying to a House panel claiming "we have no intention of assuming responsibility for Assad's civil war, that is not in the cards, that is not what is here," the Senate panel was doing just that. As for Obama's impressive coalition-building, he couldn't get the U.N., couldn't get the Arab League, couldn't get NATO, couldn't even get the Brits to sign on, so fierce Warlord Obama's 'Coalition of the Willing' in Syria amounts to Uncle Sam providing air power to Saudi-backed Al Nusra lads, all chummy with the gang that reshaped Manhattan's skyline on 9/11. In the Iranian vs. Saudi contest for supremacy in the region, Al Nusra, et al. are useful Saudi proxies -- a good reason Uncle Sam should sit this one out.
And McCain's beloved Free Syrian Army? The FSA stands accused by the United Nations of war crimes for executing 10 captured Syrian soldiers, all caught on video. "The soldiers were videotaped begging for their lives before being executed," reports Christopher Orlet in the "American Spectator".
MaCain's wonderful Jeffersonian democrats have been accused of carrying out murders, engaging in kidnappings, torture, extortions and other civic-minded works. A Syrian activist going by the name "Samih" informed Human Rights Watch that FSA members were kidnapping soldiers. "They would kidnap them and ask their parents to pay a ransom to let them go." Almost two dozen Syrian soldiers were murdered after the FSA took control of a border post. Before that, the FSA had cut off the arms and legs of a Syrian Army lieutenant colonel, according to witnesses. All of which has McCain convinced these nice chaps should be running the show if Assad is deposed.
Laughingly, liberals claim Obama needs to start a war with Syria in order to rescue his "credibility" after his 'red line' comment he now blames on the world. His credibility will be in tatters! Yet nothing snuffs out credibility like handing Iraq over to the Iranians, not lifting a finger in Benghazi, dithering as the Iranian mullahs fast-track their way toward acquiring The Bomb. And nothing is quite as dumb as appointing John Kerry as your pitchman for a war based on intel "evidence" collected by James Clapper.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Ohhh Wow...this is the best description in a nutshell of all of this ugliness that I’ve seen in some time.
A true opulent treasure for 2 cents!
How eloquently, depressingly accurate!
Saddam Hussein was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1.3 innocents and where were the RATS? They played politics, compared Bush to Hitler, and did damage to the war effort at every opportunity. Where were you, Obama and the rest of you RATS?
And now, in the Bizzaro world of Obama and the RATS, they want the U.S. to support the terrorists in Syria. WTF?
I did some marketing work for "WMD: The Murderous Reign of Saddam Hussein." Seeing the original screening made everyone cry. But the RAT bastards played politics. They did not give a damn about innocents.
Excellent wrap-up, dear JohnHuang2, thank you!
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