Posted on 09/03/2013 10:55:54 AM PDT by jazusamo
Why are we even talking about taking military action in Syria? What is that military action supposed to accomplish? And what is the probability that it will in fact accomplish whatever that unknown goal might be?
What is painfully clear from President Obama's actions, inactions and delays is that he is more or less playing it by ear, as to what specifically he is going to do, and when. He is telling us more about what he is not going to do — that he will not put "boots on the ground," for example — than about what he will do.
All this is happening a year after issuing an ultimatum to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria against the use of chemical or biological weapons. When the President of the United States issues an ultimatum to another sovereign nation, he should know in advance what he is going to do if that ultimatum is rejected.
But that is not the way Barack Obama operates. Like so many people who are masters of lofty words, he does not pay nearly as much attention to mundane realities. Campaigning is his strong suit. Governing is not.
With the mainstream media ready to ooh and aah over his rhetoric, and pass over in silence his policy disasters as President, Obama is home free as far as domestic politics is concerned. But, on the world stage, neither America's enemies nor America's allies are hypnotized by his words or his image.
Nations that have to decide whether to ally themselves with us or with our enemies understand that they are making life and death decisions. It is not about rhetoric, image or symbolism. It is about whether nations can count on the realism, wisdom and dependability of the American government.
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” He has the authority to take military action if he wants to. The question is whether he can sucker the Republicans into giving him political cover by pre-approving his unknown actions and unknown goals.”
Boehner sold us out.
Precisely, and he has stupid McCain and Linda Graham out there fronting for him.
“Boehner sold us out.”
Yep, he sure did and it’s sickening.
Exactly...Both those turkey’s should switch parties, they’re not even moderate Repubs.
” Exactly...Both those turkey’s should switch parties, they’re not even moderate Repubs.”
McCain, Graham, and Boehner sold us out, and Obama was at his weakest without their help. Boehner was the final nail in our coffin.
Boehner sold us out.
Shocking, simply shocking. The only question is WHAT, not WHETHER, the NSA has the goods on him. He is a waste of air on Capitol Hill. Bob
You’re absolutely right, SJB.
There are already “boots on the ground” to paint targets.
Boehner and Cantor want to give aid and comfort to the Islamic Brotherhood and al-Qaeda proxy groups?
Where is the evidence that Assad, or someone close to Assad, ordered this chemical attack?
Since Assad was already winning the war, what was the strategic purpose of his alleged attack?
This is completely nuts.
Boehner is speaker because the House voted him in to that spot for a second time last year
I believe even M Bachmann voted for him
The consolation some people took from Election Day was that the House was Republican.
I personally did not take that as consolation, for this obvious reason. But I’m a girl, so, when I say this is not good at all and the House will never stand up to this guy, they haven’t yet, the guys just say go get us some food and shut up, I paraphrase.
I did find consolation in the words of Sen Cruz, the day after Election Day on the Mark Levin show.
I await the certain turn around from the majority of Voters as they hear what he has to say. His loyalty is to the Constitution and these greedy, frightened, morally compromised politicians whose loyalties are to their major donors who are not loyal to the constitution, are going to look as ridiculous next to him as Diane Feinstein publicly telling him “we don’t do things that way in the senate” (that is, pay attention to that constitution crap)
We, the CITIZENS of the American republic, cannot count on the realism, wisdom, and dependability of the American government. We are ruled by dangerously incompetent and out of touch Fascists with no regard to our history, our culture, and our laws. Only a fool would not see that, and our allies are not fools, for the most part.
I called socialist Rep. Matt Cartright’s office today, and the person there told me that every caller today was AGAINST bombing. And I live in a district full of brainwashed Democrats. Bob
He is a dictator and the republicans who have power to stop him don’t do their job. They are the worst offenders
The RATS got us into WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. They are the party of war and have always been so.
Agreed, it is completely nuts and it falls right in the lap of the narcissistic, incompetent president and his lack of any coherent foreign policy plan.
If any president ever deserved impeachment it’s this one but it won’t happen.
And Boner is a sucker.
I disagree about his incoherent foreign policy. BHO is not even hiding in plain sight. I think his foreign policy is a cold calculation to mortally bleed us morally and financially. He has already crippled our ability to sustain a long/large war effort with his environmental decrees on oil drilling bans, XL pipeline delay, and EPA regulations on coal power plant emissions. Our military runs on petroleum. He will also stand with AQ and the MB at every opportunity in his other goal of crushing Israel.
7/18/1995 – Barack Obama published his memoir, Dreams from My Father. He used his memoir to reflect on his personal experiences with race and race relations in the U.S. Though unproven, some critics speculated that the book was written with the assistance of former Weather Underground radical, Bill Ayers. A controversial passage regarding Muslims is presented below.
page 261: "Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
We have been warned. Let those who have eyes see and those who have ears hear.
My tin foil hat is sounding the alarm.
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