Posted on 12/09/2014 12:07:49 PM PST by Olog-hai
Secretary of State John Kerry says a new congressional authorization for U.S. military operations against the Islamic State should not be limited to Iraq and Syria and should not bind President Barack Obama from ever deploying ground troops against the group if necessary. […]
Obama is using congressional authorizations that former President George W. Bush relied on after 9/11—ones that critics say are a legal stretch at best. …
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a new congressional authorization for U.S. military operations against the Islamic State should not be limited to Iraq and Syria and should not bind President Barack Obama from ever deploying ground troops against the group if necessary.Hmm, sounds familiar.
We can keep them out ... if we would
They should not be here and we should not be there.
Let them kill each other over there.
That’s a liberal fantasy. Never mind the fact that the liberals hobble our ability to eliminate them “there”. Also never mind the danger to our ally Israel.
Isolationism nearly crippled us during both of the previous World Wars. What will it do to us in the one to come?
None of what needs to be done requires any expanded “war powers”, obviously.
you’re not going to eliminate them there (besides they are eliminating themselves so why stop them?)
There are 1.6 Billion Muslims and they are reproducing faster than we are.
How many are you going to eliminate? Cause you know, no matter how many you eliminate there are going to be hundreds of millions more of them.
Be realistic. We are not going to “eliminate” them.
But we don’t have to go over there and stop them from eliminating each other. What is the point in that?
They’re not eliminating themselves. You even pointed that out.
If we don’t stop them outside the country, then they are coming here. We’ve already heard them as far as what they intend.
We didn’t go to war. They brought the war to us.
Who is “they”?
We went after the 9/11 people and we had mixed success in routing them out ... over there.
But what now?
Afghanistan is a mess and we have even more enemies there.
What now?
Meanwhile, ISIS has declared war on most of Islam. Why get in their way?
How many do we “eliminate” over there?
On what basis if they are fighting each other?
Frankly, we did not “go after the 9/11 people”. Instead of cutting the snake’s head off, we went after a few scales.
The liberals in DC have forced rules of engagement on our soldiers that nobody can win under. Contrast them with Sun Tzu’s “Art Of War” and the absurdity is only too clear.
George Washington warned us that we had to be “at all times ready for war”. Not being ready has led our enemies to think that we are ready to fall.
ISIS has not “declared war on most of Islam”. They are the ultimate distraction; take note that Kerry is using them as a pretext to award Obama more undeserved and unconstitutional executive powers.
And you still seem unconcerned about Israel being in the crossfire.
Israel will take care of business, of that I have no doubt.
What did we do in Afghanistan? We’re not better off there than we were before and neither is anyone else. The instant we leave it will be a bloodbath (which is why we are not going back in). Same in Iraq. Same in Libya. Same everywhere.
Why are we protecting Muslims from other Muslims? None of them are our friends.
oops ... I meant why we should not be going back in
You miss the bit about unworkable rules of engagement?
It is also folly to “protect” Muslims from Muslims; but they weren’t worried about attacking other Muslims. They still aren’t, despite the media blather about IS(IS/IL).
The head of the snake here is Iran. The liberals (Bush included) have always evaded tackling this problem, and it’s metastasizing.
A real insult to Dufas’s...or is the plural Dufaes?
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