Posted on 04/25/2011 5:54:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
Mideast: As Syrian security forces murder mourners at the funerals of protesters, the State Department's skewed vision of "Assad the reformer" implodes. While we fiddle in Libya, Syria, a state sponsor of terror, burns.
We don't often find ourselves in agreement with the Washington Post, but we share the view that President Obama's silence and inaction on the continuing violence and repression in Syria, other than a boilerplate condemnation of it as "outrageous," is positively shameful.
The incoherence of what may be loosely termed the "Obama doctrine" can be seen in our indifference to the slaughter of 300 Syrian democracy protestors on the heels of a failed attempt to protect innocents in Libya.
After the president said Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi "must go," we didn't apply enough force to accomplish it, passing the baton off to a feckless NATO after getting permission slips from the U.N. and an Arab League that wanted action but wouldn't pay for it.
We suspect the whole exercise in Libya was not an attempt to apply American power, but rather the latest episode of redistributing declining American power to international organizations as the Obama administration continues its war on American leadership.
We have asked before — why Libya and not Syria? Libya is an irritant, but Syria is and has been a direct threat to American interests. Damascus has long been known as a Club Med for international terrorism, with many groups running their operations from there.
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Syria is not our friend, and has not been ever since the Muslims put down the Christians and crushed Lebanon.
Nevertheless, there are worse people than Assad waiting out there in the wings.
No, we don’t need any more damned wars. Three is plenty, especially since we are currently determined to lose two of them, and we are fighting the third on the wrong side.
We’re about to get a collective smack upside the head that we haven’t seen since Pearl Harbor I think.
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Obama will never let our armed forces go into Syria.
They might find the WMD’s.
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