Posted on 12/01/2015 3:16:41 PM PST by conservativejoy
There are lots of dogs in Syria. Islamic State inIraq and Syria. Mad dogs and we are in a fight with them. I thought this was obvious but perhaps only a worse 9/11 will make Americans wake up to that.
I remember that within a week of Benghazi, FReepdom had generally concluded it was gun-running from Libya to Syrian radicals via Turkey.
The Administration was hoping to arm moderates, of whom there are 0.0 in Syria. So they had to know Al Nusra and proto-ISIS were receiving the weapons.
And McStain, Boner and McTurtle all have their fingerprints all over it. That’s why there’s never been a single question in Congress about WHY 35 CIA guys were in Benghazi. They knew exactly what horrible things they were doing. Americans wouldn’t stand for it. So the Uniparty are STILL HIDING BENGHAZI.
Cruz has always said that his objective was to destroy ISIS and any terrorist groups that might attack us. He has said that he would give that objective to the military generals and strategists so that they could develop a plan to complete that objective. Then he would make sure they had the resources to do it. Completely unlike Obama.
That was an excellent summary of the whole Benghazi blunder.
You’re effing A right we need to get involved in Syria. Were you sleeping in the late 90’s like everybody else? ISIS can not be permitted to establish an operative caliphate in Syria with access to wmd. Have you folks learned nothing?
So within a matter of two posts you have gone from not getting involved in Syria to getting involved in Syria.
I’m for destroying ISIS, not getting involved in Syria’s civil war.
Rubio supported toppling Gaddafi,
Toppling Gaddafi led to a vacuum in Libya,
The vacuum in Libya left our ambassador in Benghazi open to terrorist attacks..
Secondarily I agree that it is both A) Foolish to arm rebels in Syria who are allied to Al Qaeda, and that could be worse than Assad if he were toppled
B) To create a no flyzone in Syria is dangerous as that could put us in direct conflict with Russia (for what..?). Do we really want to risk WWIII for no real reason than interventionism (or the ego of the President-if that turns out be an interventionist like Rubio, Carson, Bush)?
“some of the more aggressive Washington neo-cons”
There are going to be some folks here on FR who are not comfortable with Cruz using the term “neo-con.”
Our embassy in Libya became official in May of 2006. It was horrible form to use our diplomatic immunity to run arms and support for seditious overthrow of the government there.
Momar Gaddafi was tortured, abused, and murdered as a prisoner of war. That’s a war crime and our Secretary of State took full credit, “WE came, WE saw, HE DIED! Ha ha ha!”
The CIA’s coordination with our embassy in Libya was confirmed at the Hillary Clinton hearing.
Wonder if Rubio still supports toppling Sadam ?
“If the point is to keep the country safe, Cruz should be a surveillance maximalist like Rubio is.”
No, the object is to keep Americans SAFE from enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. This would of course include oppressive, intrusive and dictatorial big government. Thank you Senator Cruz. CRUZ 2016
Well yeah. But ISIS is in Syria which necessarily means we get involved in Syria.
I do. You want to defend not toppling a dangerous dictator who was paying bounty for American and Israeli scalps while giving sanctuary to Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal and Ansar Al Islam? Or perhaps you are sanguine about jihadists scum who throw old American Jews in wheelchairs off the bow of ships. I imagine you were also fine with the ackack being fired at our planes on a daily basis. Then again perhaps you are just ignorant of the facts on the ground in Iraq.
Go ahead and send your children or grandchildren into Syria’s civil war if you want. My son already gave his life only for Obama to throw away everything so many sacrificed for.
I am very sorry about your son and as a brother grunt mourn him and those like him. But my family has served honorably and continuously since the civil war. So there is no reason to go there amigo.
You don’t seem to understand that taking on the mission of destroying ISIS involves getting involved in Syria. I am not sure why that is but it is. No nation building, no alliance with Assad but the destruction of ISIS on a daily basis primarily from the air. Of course we have to ally with some factions in Syria to gather Intel and have a presence on the ground. That is the real politik of the situation.
If you are unwilling to support that then you should just join Pat and advocate for fortress America and wait for the next attack in the lower 48.
I support destroying ISIS. Whatever that takes. Our mission is not to choose sides in Syria’s civil war, because ISIS is infiltrated on every front there.
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