Posted on 09/17/2014 2:45:27 AM PDT by markomalley
The point in the area is not what people say, it’s what they do. Assad HAS to demand the Golon be given back. But he has done nothing about it.
That’s the biggest failure in Iraq after the US pullout from the nascent “sovereign, stable and self-reliant” Islamic Republic, which I for one always decry. They were never ready for self-government; they immediately drafted an Islamic constitution once that was handed to them.
Ultimately, all factions there (save the Kurds FWICS) are our enemy and deserve no “backing” from us.
~Unfortunately when there was a chance to overthrow the twelver nutjobs a few years ago, Obama didn’t even offer a few words of support. Contrast that with his multi jumbotron speech broadcast to crowds in Cairo which brought the muslim brotherhood to power.~
Yes, I remember unrests in Iran back when. If they were serious they could apply about as much pressure as McCain and Nuland did in Ukraine and the mullah would be toast.
That’s like saying Iran’s “done nothing about it”. Assad, like the Mullahs, always acts via proxies such as Hezbollah and even Hamas of the Muslim Brotherhood.
There is no “lesser evil” there.
And of course you can’t remove one Islamic regime only to replace it with another while expecting better results—Iraq is the prime example. The liberals in DC either do not understand what victory is against Islam or do not care; I believe the latter.
Get one thing straight: being against Assad is not being pro-IS(IS/IL). The devil you think you know is the same as the devil you don’t know.
Its what passes for diplomacy in that part of the world. Jordan’s king Abdulla is downright friendly with Israel but still makes obligatory anti Israeli statements.
I know he’s sent his dogs to Israeli veterinarians and I believe at least one of his kids went to Tel Aviv for an emergency surgery a few years back.
~That’s like saying Iran’s “done nothing about it”. Assad, like the Mullahs, always acts via proxies such as Hezbollah and even Hamas of the Muslim Brotherhood.~
Que bono? What is his real interest vs Israel? Or maybe you are familiar with some exact fact when he ordered some anti-Israel op to Hezbollah? Let me know if you do.
Democracy is easy. It's called mob rule. A republic is much harder. Executing it as the United States required the efforts of what was arguably the most literate and well-informed portion of a country (Great Britain) that had worked for centuries to develop the concepts necessary to institute a republic, based on knowledge of the flaws of Greece and Rome.
And then we flushed it down the toilet in 1912. Then, for good measure we hit the flush valve again in 1932, 1964, 1988, 2000, and 2008. Wilson and FDR cracked the code: Institutionalize radical (FDR's own word) concepts and politicize the courts. Then it doesn't matter if you lose the next election. The bureaucrats and lifetime judges you've hired will bridge the gap until you can get elected again. Ratchet. Ratchet. Ratchet.
Like it or not, Russia has been RIGHT EVERY TIME regarding this so-called “Arab Spring”..
Maybe you forgot about the Nakba Day attack on the Golan back in 2011? or the Yom Kippur War, where Syria under the rule of Bashar’s dad attacked Israel?
“Bashir Assad is the true moderate in Syria.”
Totally true, at least by Middle East standards. He had NO PROBLEM protecting his large Christian population...a population that is now running for their lives from our “friends” there.
~There is no “lesser evil” there.
And of course you can’t remove one Islamic regime only to replace it with another while expecting better results—Iraq is the prime example. The liberals in DC either do not understand what victory is against Islam or do not care; I believe the latter.
Get one thing straight: being against Assad is not being pro-IS(IS/IL). The devil you think you know is the same as the devil you don’t know.~
I’m sorry, nothing personal, but you might be a really bad chess player.
No serious problem may be solved at once this way.
Is your solution to escalate right now and nuke Mecca or what? I assure you that even such a radical solution won’t solve a problem but actually heavily worsen it.
Don’t purge a cat if you have a pest problem. Why won’t you let her solve a problem no matter how nasty she is? Does it matter what color a cat is or even if she scratches or defecates in a bathroom sometimes? Rats are much worse, they are about plague and you aren’t in a position to effectively deal with them on your own.
They’re not playing chess there. I would say they are going by Sun Tzu’s “Art Of War” instead, especially the part about feigning disorder in order to crush their real enemy (ch. 1 verse 20)
The only fact on the ground there is that all major Islamic factions are dead against the Little Satan (Israel) and the Great Satan.
~Maybe you forgot about the Nakba Day attack on the Golan back in 2011? or the Yom Kippur War, where Syria under the rule of Bashar’s dad attacked Israel?~
Yom Kippur War was decades ago.
As for another incident I wouldn’t call it an attack in any serious sense.
Was any weapon fired from the Syrian side and how do you know Assad was behind it?
Anyway it is a kid’s games comparing to what ISIS is doing on daily basis.
Let Assad fall and Israel would have to deal with things worse than an astroturf crowd on Golans.
“Secular strong men have historically our best allies in the Middle East (after Israel, of course). We keep overthrowing these people and then we get “surprised” when Muslim fanatics take over and make things worse.” — Totally agree. You’d think they learned from Carter’s mistake in helping overthrow the Shah of Iran. But, noooo! Still helping with the islamization of that region & of course our terror threat alert keeps going up in the west too.
Russia provides some clarity where our state department and McInsane spout falsehoods
No, that is not so.
Islam wants for brutal dictators like Lord of the Flies needs adult authority. Individual liberty, freedom of association, security of one’s personal property, and the right to freedom of expression, are not compatable with Islam doctrine.
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