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Dan Rather: If you’re calling for war against ISIS and wouldn’t send your kid, don’t even talk to me
Hotair ^ | 08/25/2014 | AllahPundit

Posted on 08/25/2014 3:15:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

He also said he’d pay a ransom for a reporter’s life, which, as a better journalist noted elsewhere today, is a surefire way to encourage more kidnappings and beheadings.

This is, of course, a variation on the ol’ chickenhawk argument vintage 2003 and it’s stupid for all of the reasons the chickenhawk argument was always stupid. But say this much for Document Dan: You haven’t heard much of this quasi-logic from the left since January 2009. He may be consistently silly, but he’s consistent. (Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, professional liberal and Iraq dove Ed Schultz wants “round-the-clock airstrikes” against ISIS so that we can “cut their g******ed head off.”) Never mind all that, though. Answer me this: What’s the strategic argument for not hitting ISIS at this point? I understand the broad anti-interventionist argument that nothing good ever came from America meddling in Iraq, but that argument imagines that U.S. intervention necessarily makes things worse. What would be worse than ISIS? The strategic argument, I guess, is that we’re inviting “blowback” by bombing them but in that case explain to me why ISIS would refrain from attacking the U.S. if we held off. They hate America already for backing comparatively moderate Middle Eastern regimes like Iraq’s and Jordan’s (not to mention Israel’s). They’d boost their prestige regionally by showing they could pull off a big attack on U.S. soil that’s eluded Al Qaeda for years. There was never going to be a peace treaty with a group that’s devoted explicitly to ethnic and religious cleansing.

If the argument is that it’s not our fight and that regional powers should handle this, okay, but I’m not sure that’s feasible at this point even if those powers were willing. ISIS might have them outgunned:

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To: DJ Taylor

Good digging!


61 posted on 08/25/2014 3:59:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: ansel12

Yes, I’d forgotten all about it and wondered why it popped up so unexpectedly.


62 posted on 08/25/2014 3:59:51 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t ever want to talk to you anyway, Dan.

BTW What’s the frequency, Kenneth?


63 posted on 08/25/2014 4:01:05 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you’re calling for war against ISIS and don’t plan to win it — and I mean beat the living crap out of every person who even tweets favorably about ISIS — don’t even talk to me.


64 posted on 08/25/2014 4:02:30 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey Dan, if I call for executing lying, traitorous journalists, would you talk to me then?


65 posted on 08/25/2014 4:04:02 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DJ Taylor

What surprised me, was someone posted right after me to someone else on the thread, and it wasn’t related to my post at all.


66 posted on 08/25/2014 4:04:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: SeekAndFind

“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”

“WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?”


67 posted on 08/25/2014 4:08:07 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: ansel12

To find that response on a ten year old thread was a bit puzzling.


68 posted on 08/25/2014 4:09:28 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Chickensoup

RE: I woiuld not send any kin of mine into that hellhole or any of the Moslim hellholes worldwide.

Errr.... this is an ALL VOLUNTEER army made up of ADULTS who MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION.

Parents don’t get to decide for their kids. The kids decide on their own.


69 posted on 08/25/2014 4:10:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Says the guy who flunked out of Marine boot camp.”

His bio says he had childhood rheumatic fever, due to which he was finished as a US Marine.

I am unable to fault him for a childhood illness.


70 posted on 08/25/2014 4:16:20 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Phillyred

This type of question is always asked by left-wing university types with whom I work, when the subject of war comes up (asking if I supported Afghanistan or Iraq). I call it the “catechism of the left”: “Would you support the war if your child (Note) were sent to fight it?

My question in response always stops them: “Which one?”
(son in the USAF (combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan), daughter in the USMC)


71 posted on 08/25/2014 4:17:19 PM PDT by Sigurdrifta
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To: truth_seeker

Who do you think wrote that, the Marine Corps?


72 posted on 08/25/2014 4:17:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hearing that same line twice in a day is not a coincidence. It is a new talking point.

I was not paying attention so can’t give the details. FOX was on in the background and the subject was ISIS and what to do.

The response from a talking head?
Would you send your son to fight ISIS?

Who is coordinating the talking points with the media? Why is the media so eager to follow the script?


73 posted on 08/25/2014 4:19:23 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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http://jdlong.wordpress.com/page/326/

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/100/1818/320/Rather.Marine.photo.jpg


74 posted on 08/25/2014 4:23:18 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

say liberals who like to use other people’s moneys. what a bunch of hypocrites and their wars on poverty while they keep taking and never give.


75 posted on 08/25/2014 4:44:03 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

Humm they aren’t kids once they become marines asshole.


76 posted on 08/25/2014 4:48:21 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Veggie Todd

He still doesn’t know the frequency.


77 posted on 08/25/2014 5:01:01 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: SeekAndFind

No one wants to talk to you, Dan. In fact, we’re surprised to hear you’re still alive, surprised but not thrilled.


78 posted on 08/25/2014 5:10:45 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind
Dan... For some reason I don't think Sasha and Malia would make very good shock troops to wipe out ISIS.
Michelle however...

79 posted on 08/25/2014 5:13:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t think anybody talks to you with your wet nurse as an interpreter.

In fact, I’m certain she wrote this screed because you clearly need someone counting cadence, just so you’ll remember to breathe...


80 posted on 08/25/2014 5:21:12 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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