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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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
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To: SeekAndFind

Dan is right. I won’t send my twelve or nine year old sons - I’ll go instead to secure their future.


81 posted on 08/25/2014 5:29:24 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: SeekAndFind; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Cincinatus' Wife; ..
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted... and hell, yes! That was the invisible frequency Kenneth was asking about--

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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82 posted on 08/25/2014 5:38:11 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about we just send you?


83 posted on 08/25/2014 5:42:04 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t trust the enemy islamist _resident either.


84 posted on 08/25/2014 5:44:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Bender2

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????


85 posted on 08/25/2014 6:34:36 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Organic Panic

Oh yeah with that Aunt Esther pose she scare ANYBODYYYYY LOL!


86 posted on 08/25/2014 6:35:22 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


87 posted on 08/25/2014 6:35:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

Aren’t ‘kids’ actually adults who decide things of their own free will? This ‘thinking’ annoys the heck out of me.


88 posted on 08/25/2014 6:38:14 PM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dan Rather is still alive?


89 posted on 08/25/2014 6:47:32 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“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?


90 posted on 08/25/2014 8:12:23 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Mears

It wasn’t intended as a rebuttal. I was agreeing with, and expanding on, what ilgipper wrote.


91 posted on 08/25/2014 10:04:57 PM PDT by eddiespaghetti ((with the meatball eyes))
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess pro-abortionists should not be for abortion unless they abort themselves, too.


92 posted on 08/26/2014 10:25:01 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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