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Senators demand Obama's Syria strategy (Tom Cotton joins Fiorina on no-fly zones)
The Hill ^ | 10/2/15 | Kristina Wong

Posted on 10/02/2015 5:09:12 AM PDT by jimbo123

Senators are calling on President Obama to clarify his strategy on Syria, after Russia ignored repeated U.S. warnings and began bombing rebel groups there this week to shore up the Assad regime.

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), one of the administration's biggest foreign policy critics, called on the administration to take stronger measures.

"We should establish no-fly zones in Syria and make it clear that any aircraft that enters those zones will be shot down,” he said.

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To: Sacajaweau
There is no authority for us to be in or fighting in Syria

+1

41 posted on 10/02/2015 5:51:12 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: lodi90
As I am sure you aware, Assad has been murdering Syrians with barrel bombs for quiet some time

So what?

42 posted on 10/02/2015 5:52:55 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: jimbo123

Obama doesn’t have a Syria strategy. Obama doesn’t have an Iraq strategy, he doesn’t have an Iran strategy, nothing. The only strategy he has is the screw up everything. He’s like the Midas touch in reverse, everything he touches turns to crap. Right now, he looks like a wimpy schoolboy being beaten up by the Russian football player.


43 posted on 10/02/2015 5:53:02 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: 9YearLurker

Hillary now too:

Strange bedfellows.


Obama surrendering the ME to Iran & Russia will make strange bedfellows.


44 posted on 10/02/2015 5:55:09 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Sacajaweau
There is no authority for us to be in or fighting in Syria. They are not an ally.

The problem is allowing Russia to become a major player in the region, and allowing Ian's military to start stretching its legs now that they are no longer surrounded. (Plus Obama considers any Muslim rebel a close personal friend. Ahem.)

I understand the wise notion of not wanting our troops to get involved in every civil war and stupid skirmish... but there are ancillary consequences to keep in mind.

45 posted on 10/02/2015 5:56:00 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: DoodleDawg

Agree. Cotton just made another stupid statement.


46 posted on 10/02/2015 5:56:30 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: lodi90

What is with the 0bamabot’s fascination with barrel bombs?

Is it better to be obliterated by a GBU-12D Paveway II than a barrel bomb? Are you less dead from one or the other?


47 posted on 10/02/2015 6:00:10 AM PDT by wrench
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To: jimbo123

Obama’s policy, presuming we ever had one, has clearly failed. The Russians are now running the show.

Why in God’s name would we commit our military to fighting the Russians, when Obama can’t ever explain what his policy is?


48 posted on 10/02/2015 6:00:23 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Strategy:

Obama gameplan

1. Install covert Muslim Preisident in place
2. Install Muslim administration
3. Increase spending to put America into a financial tailspin; no money left to build or support military infrastructure
4. Invite and entice Muslim and illegal immigrants with welfare benefits and other conveniences to further overwhelm administration
5. Appeal to Americans to allow Muslim, not Christian, refugees to relocate to the U.S. to build Muslim population
6. Increase brown population so that white population no longer has power
7. Destroy Constitutional powers; install sharia law
8. Remove 2nd Amendment rights:0; disarm citizens using staged shootings and propaganda
9. Develop domestic army comprised of brown population in background
10. Create dissension and uprisings using politicized groups to create lawless society to make people beg for protection
11. Push notion / propaganda showing that local law enforcement agencies are ineffective and that a world police agency is needed to cover all territories
12. Establish world police; disarm citizens
13. Declare Caliphate
14. Kill white population
15. AntiChrist appears on scene
16. Collect billion dollar + payoff from George Soros
17. Leave presidency and move to foreign land
18. Divorce beard, Michelle, and marry Reggie


49 posted on 10/02/2015 6:01:51 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Strategy:

Obama gameplan

1. Install covert Muslim Presiident in place
2. Install Muslim administration
3. Increase spending to put America into a financial tailspin; no money left to build or support military infrastructure
4. Invite and entice Muslim and illegal immigrants with welfare benefits and other conveniences to further overwhelm administration
5. Appeal to Americans to allow Muslim, not Christian, refugees to relocate to the U.S. to build Muslim population
6. Increase brown population so that white population no longer has power
7. Destroy Constitutional powers; install sharia law
8. Remove 2nd Amendment rights:0; disarm citizens using staged shootings and propaganda
9. Develop domestic army comprised of brown population in background
10. Create dissension and uprisings using politicized groups to create lawless society to make people beg for protection
11. Push notion / propaganda showing that local law enforcement agencies are ineffective and that a world police agency is needed to cover all territories
12. Establish world police; disarm citizens
13. Declare Caliphate
14. Kill white population
15. AntiChrist appears on scene
16. Collect billion dollar + payoff from George Soros
17. Leave presidency and move to foreign land
18. Divorce beard, Michelle, and marry Reggie


50 posted on 10/02/2015 6:02:28 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Teacher317
There is no good reason for us to be there at this point.

Obama is simply set on assassinating Assad....just like he did with Khadafi....and we know how that turned out.

51 posted on 10/02/2015 6:03:38 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: jimbo123

We’re on the wrong side in Syria.
Same mistake we made with the Shah, Saddam, Kadaffi, Mubarak. Where else?
These dudes were bad, the alternatives much worse.
The population in the ME need an iron hand to keep them in line.
The idea of transforming them into democracies, peace loving , tolerant peoples is a pipe dream. A crack pipe dream.


52 posted on 10/02/2015 6:06:19 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: wrench

Is it better to be obliterated by a GBU-12D Paveway II than a barrel bomb? Are you less dead from one or the other?


What is the fascination with airplanes flying into buildings on 9/11? Barrel bombs are terror weapons used on civilian targets. Savage, savage stuff.


53 posted on 10/02/2015 6:06:32 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90
Yeah, in a civil war, there will be fellow citizens killed. However, this has grown to something much larger a civil war.

It would be easy to say that their aren't any "good guys" in this conflict, but I would say Assad is better than ISIS and the hodgepodge of other factions that oppose him.

If and when Assad falls, (I think it's most likely inevitable at this point), do you really think the Syrians who started protesting against Assad will be running the show?

I'd be more along the lines of a ISIS/Al Qaeda or whatever they go by now. The average Syrian will beg for the "good old days" when Assad ran the show.

54 posted on 10/02/2015 6:09:02 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: jimbo123

Dear DC Morons

Your “operations” in this area have been a completely ridiculous farce. JUST GET OUT OF THE WAY.


55 posted on 10/02/2015 6:09:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Sacajaweau

There is no good reason for us to be there at this point.


There’s no good reason to cede the ME to Iran & Russia. It’s foolish to think that we won’t pay for that sooner or later. At this rate it will be quite soon. Probalby in about a decade when Iran has nuclear tipped ICBM’s aimed at CONUS.


56 posted on 10/02/2015 6:09:26 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Barrel bomba are IEDs. They are the only ordnance this LEGAL country had left to defend itself till outside help arrived.

Oh, and these weapons were being dropped on muslim insurgents (the true terrorists in the country) bent on ridding the country of its secular leader and murdering all the Christians they could find.


57 posted on 10/02/2015 6:11:59 AM PDT by wrench
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To: Cowboy Bob

“What is the reason for a “no fly zone?” To prevent the Russians from bombing ISIS?”

No. It is to protect the Syrian rebels supported by Obama from Assad’s aggression. Both of them.


58 posted on 10/02/2015 6:13:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Jews For Cruz)
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To: Another Post-American

When Christians are getting killed in America, Obma blame the gun or white racism - nothing about Christianphobia. When a boy bring a hoax bomb to school, Obama defend the boy from Islamopobia


59 posted on 10/02/2015 6:13:50 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: jimbo123

Cotton WAS supposed to be smart or something. This makes it pretty clear he is not.

Declaring no-fly zones in Syria is a stupid idea and will start a major conflict needlessly. Why?

To depose Assad who has been there for decades and an ally of Russia for 30 years? Why? Because he is defending his power against rebels who don’t like him?

Why do we need to get involved in that fight at all?

WE DON’T have any business being involved at all.


60 posted on 10/02/2015 6:14:03 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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