Posted on 04/17/2018 8:35:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: Haven’t we learned the lesson of Libya and Iraq?
I think we are, that’s why we’re not toppling Assad.
This this idiotic mentality under Obama that allowed for the rise of ISIS and threat to the Americans it posed home and abroad.
I bet happy when Obama withdrew early from Iraq, weren't you?
“Why are we always fighting for Muslims?”
In the next to last paragraph the article mentions a goal of a liberal democracy. What good comes out of combining liberal, democracy, and Muslims?
You must have agreed with Obama withdrawing from Iraq when he did, right?
That moronic decision allowed a terrorist group that hated this country to takeover large parts of Iraq and have a base of operation to kill Americans. Brilliant!
Let me guess, you're a Rand Paul supporter.
put me in the “no they’re not column”
Obama created ISIS. And, his inept policies (like withdrawing from Iraq too early) allowed it to become a threat to American citizens.
The last U.S. troops officially left Iraq on December 18, 2011.
If you really think 13 days would have made any difference in Making Iraq Great Again, please explain it here.
It was idiotic decision and it resulted in the majority wanting us to go back and wipe ISIS. That is what Trump ran on -- wiping out ISIS.
It would equally stupid to withdraw from Afghanistan. I don't give a damn if we're there for the next 50 years if that is what it takes to keep the Islamic terrorist threat to the US under control.
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
Dahir Adan
Syed Rizwan Farook & Tashfeen Malik
Nidal Hassan
Omar Mateen
Ahmad Khan Rahimi
Sayfullo Saipov
Dzhokhar & Tamerlan Tsarnaev
“Screw that.
No, we do not have such a capacity, we do not desire it, and if the “world” is “growing closer” we should do all in our power to reverse the process”
Post of the day.
From: Retain Mike
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2018 11:11 AM
To: WSJ Letters (wsj.ltrs@wsj.com) wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
Subject: Striking Syrian Chemical Weapons
The U.S. Naval Institute article titled “Senators Quiz Military Leaders on U.S. Forces in Syria after ISIS” is interesting, because of the map presenting areas controlled by various armed factions. This colorful crazy quilt identifies Syrian Kurds and Aligned Forces, Syrian Government Forces, Islamic State Forces, Syrian Opposition Forces, Turkish Military Backed Forces, and some white areas for which evidently no one can hazard a guess. Remote from each other are two tiny circles labeled U.S./Coalition Military. The map does not account for Israeli airstrikes. What an endless array of possible permutations for factions to fight each other.
Clearly Assad should not introduce chemical weapons, banned by international law, into this melee. The second strike comes after Putin received ample warning he was allowing actions Stalin, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev of the old Soviet Union would never have approved. Those leaders authorized allies to use armed force only to the extent they were well within the options the Soviet Union could manage politically.
Concurrently, I wonder how one could divine any meaningful level of involvement in the face of such turmoil? A comprehensive ceasefire seems remote. Even if achieved, then where do you find the diplomatic skills needed to sort out the combatants into peaceful agrarian villages like you see on Star Trek?
However, the alternative should be a Russian/Iranian dominated Syria under Assad, and that could be unpleasant.
Senators Quiz Military Leaders on U.S. Forces in Syria after ISIS https://news.usni.org/2018/03/13/senators-quiz-military-leaders-u-s-forces-syria-isis?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=4be94c77a1-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-4be94c77a1-230377553&mc_cid=4be94c77a1&mc_eid=d1b7ba249a
Total BS.
We had just about wiped Al Qaeda out by the end of the Bush years. Going to Afghanistan and combating the terrorist threat was one of the few things Bush got right.
It was a mistake to go to Iraq but was equally stupid to withdraw too early from Iraq and let ISIS run amok and murder and plot terrorist acts against Americans.
Islamic terrorism is a absolutely a national security threat and ignoring it won't make it go away.
Not an ideal situation, but much better than a Syria dominated by McCain's favorites.
Right.
You'll never convince me that this country is serious about Islamic terrorism when we undermine and topple secular dictators like the Hussein and Assad regimes ... while allowing the leading supporters of radical Islam (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) to remain in place.
Oh ... and we're surely not serious about Islamic terrorism when we allow so many of these mutants to immigrate here, either.
Agree with the Iraq war and Syrian policy or not, the intentions were/are correct. Turning Iraq into a Western-friendly democracy was a noble idea but it didn't work. Combating the Iranian-Russian-Syria alliance is also in the national interest but it ignores that fact that the alternatives to Assad are the greater evil.
Turning Iraq into a Western-friendly democracy was a noble idea but it didn't work.
It wasn't a noble idea. It was a delusional disaster.
Combating the Iranian-Russian-Syria alliance is also in the national interest ...
How is that?
RE: Total BS
Can you elaborate further please.
Q: What does Syria and Boarder Protection have in common?
A: John McCain
Yep.
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