If Glenn doesn’t think Iraq under the control of ISIS is a threat to the Western World, then it couldn’t possibly be.
...or could it?
Who funded and armed and probably trained this group coming out of Eastern Syria?
Any guesses?
The Bombastic Kenya Bushman should know...
They’re not destroying each other, though. That’s the fantasy of the liberals. Factions have always warred with each other in that part of the world, but they eventually united. They will never say “Great Satan who?”
That said, the liberals in charge of this country will certainly leave our military and civilians hung out to dry in order to induce a majority to “bring them home”. Which is what the jihadists want.
I quit listening to GB. He’s a flake and wannabe cult leader.
The last straw were blatant lies in his comments about Bundy-BLM. I half expected there would be a new program after the commercials and he would be off the air.
I used to feel the same way. I used to believe that we all loved our country and that while we disagreed on certain issues both sides had the same hope they just found it expressed in different ways through different things. Sadly I have had to abandoned this belief. I find our Left are far more interested in what the world or more specifically the UN thinks of us - I find their cultural cringe revolting. Sadly though I find our Right wing quite extreme fiscally and while quite a few here may find that palatable - it is one thing to proclaim it and another to live with it! Here I think ideology sometimes trumps what is best for the country. True middle ground, based on what is best for our country, seems to be shrinking and maybe no longer really exists.
The neocons are going berserk. McCain is acting like a spoiled child. I saw Kristol calmly explain that a Presidential speech would lead to wide acceptance of military action. Except ... Obama wanted military action in Syria last year and 85% of Americans said, “He** No!”. These weird warmongers are not operating in a “reality based” universe (neocon phrase from the Bush years). But, they are sure they can frighten enough people to reach their dream of perpetual war / empire.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.”
The time for a war to control Arabia has passed. It was important, it was necessary. It was carried out improvidently, with poor tactics and even worse strategy. There is a reason that victory in war is preferable to defeat, and we are living it now.
I’m not a fan of GB. Just too weird for my tastes. However even a blind squirrel gets a nut every now and then. We should not fight wars we are unwilling to win. Since that seems to be just about every one we’ve involved ourselves in since WWII, we need to seriously rethink how we approach this stuff. Dear leader has done a heck of a job of ensuring that no ally actually trusts us to watch their back. So I think we’re going to end up in a more isolationist model whether we like it or not.
The founding fathers were actually pretty clear about what they thought: honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
It is immoral to have people killed in a war that you have no intention of trying to win.
Bring them home. Now.
Our troops are the best in the world. They won everywhere they went. They are loyal, honorable, and distinguish by valor, dedication, and capability. The leadership they have is not worthy of such soldiers.
Let’s bring them home. Quickly.
And so they have jobs that will support their families when the military is inevitably downsized, let us put a hiatus on all immigration, legal and illegal, until each of them is employed. And so their wounds, visible and invisible, are cared for as promised by their country, let us fix the Veterans Administration by taking it out of the hands of bureaucrats and turning the medical care portion of it over to a hospital corporation.
Who, when, where dos the media say the nation is being torn apart at the seams?
I think we should go back to Iraq. And by we, I mean somebody else, just like the other 99% of the people who say we should have gone there in the first place. And don’t ask me to pay for it either, just tack it on to the debt.
There is absolutely no question that we had succeeded and that the time honored habit of keeping our troops there to keep the peace, i.e. Germany and Japan, would have eventually given us a generation who were not wedded to Sharia.
But Obama trumpeted that we were leaving a working and successful democracy and they didn’t need us anymore. This is ALL the democrats fault and has nothing to do with President Bush.
No, Glenn. We didn't win World War II by going around saying or even thinking stuff like that.
Beck's quit. He's finally beaten. He's giving up.
Have some cheese, Glenn.