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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Dan is right. I won’t send my twelve or nine year old sons - I’ll go instead to secure their future.
And Obama is taking my advice: "Don't taunt the alligator... 
until after you've crossed the creek and made the green."
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How about we just send you?
I don’t trust the enemy islamist _resident either.
Bender sweetie why are you quote this dude
This is Dan Rather talking about here Honey
Dan Rather only journalist that got b****slap by internet forum like Free republic come on Honey LOL!!
Seriously really????
Oh yeah with that Aunt Esther pose she scare ANYBODYYYYY LOL!
Rather is very lucky to have gotten out of SVN alive. I heard lots of stories about Marines who wanted to kill him for his horrible, anti-American reporting.
Others on fantasy or potential mental hit lists were Morley Safer and Don Brewster. Assume that the rest of the CBS slimes were not well liked either.
If only half of the stories I was told about CBS personnel (while I was in Nam as a journalist), were true, they should have been in jail for 20 years, or more.
Rather should have gotten “life” for being the leftist traitor that he is. He makes “slime” look virtuous.
Aren’t ‘kids’ actually adults who decide things of their own free will? This ‘thinking’ annoys the heck out of me.
Dan Rather is still alive?
“Who do you think wrote that, the Marine Corps?”
He enlisted in the Marines.
You wrote he flunked out of basic. What is your basis for that claim?
It wasn’t intended as a rebuttal. I was agreeing with, and expanding on, what ilgipper wrote.
I guess pro-abortionists should not be for abortion unless they abort themselves, too.
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