Posted on 10/30/2015 6:55:46 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Last week, the Obama White House moved to ensure Hezbollahâs ability to point 100,000 missiles at Israel. Thatâs not how they would describe it, of course. But it was the Obama administrationâas U.S. officials are quietly letting onâand not Russia that invited Iran to participate in talks in Vienna to resolve the Syrian civil war. By doing so, the White House legitimized the Islamic Republic as a âstakeholderâ whose interests in Syria must be respected. But of course, Iran has only one interest in Syria, which is to protect its ally, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, whose regime facilitates the transfer of missiles to Hezbollah.
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I think we have been castrated.
We should take up a collection to send cases of knee pads to the state dept. I’d would have suggested the White House but I’d rather not distract the Secret Service with something trivial.
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