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America Will Pay a Price for President Obama's Inaction in Syria
Townhall.com ^ | June 10, 2013 | Michael Barone

Posted on 06/10/2013 3:44:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: ScottinVA
Read what Tommy Franks has written about Iraq... he quit right after he conquered iraq... he knew that not only was it going to be a problem... he knew that Bush and the State Department (brenner) were incapable of dealing with it. He wanted to turn over power to a select group of iraqi Military leaders that were pro USA... Bush wanted to nation build... and one cannot build a free nation where islam rules.

LLS

21 posted on 06/10/2013 4:29:56 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Biggirl

Well, now that’s the fine line of distinction of which we have been so painfully reminded in the last week or so.

How do you balance requirements for security against egregious intrusion into our rights affirmed by the Constitution? Wholesale collection of virtually all electronic data for anything and everything on the hunch that some bit of information may turn up that stops a terrorist act?

The truth is, this government hasn’t stopped any terrorist action - they bluster about how they ‘stopped’ this in Oman, or we “could” have stopped this had we had this.....,

We have 9/11 - 19 Muslims with boxcutters, shoe bomber, underwear bomber, Boston, Ft. Hood....etc.

The only proactive things I’ve seen are them arresting a bunch of militia in Michigan and old coots in North Georgia.

You strengthen our security here, not by computers, storage, intrusion and eavesdropping or intimidation (IRS)- you do it by stopping refugee immigration, enforcing student VISA rules by requiring written proof, presented in person that the ‘student’ is legally enrolled, etc.

Essentially, you do it by accurately PROFILING, just like the IRS profiled the 501C4 applications for the Tea Party - that worked out great for them.


22 posted on 06/10/2013 4:32:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Kaslin

Another doo-doo brained neocon thinking there is any hope for democratic governance in Islamic hell holes........

Build the damned border fence. Use the NSA snoop monster to locate the 15,000 overstayed “students” from nations even Foggy Bottom considers “hostile”. Stop giving away asylum and citizenship like it’s a CrackerJack prize (Sirhan, Hassan, Tsarnaev, etc.).

Let the muslim world beat itself to death with its own peaceful “religion”.

We lost Iraq and Afghanistan the minute we allowed them to found their new constitutions on Islamic law instead of forcing them to allow the freedoms of conscience, religion and association!

Both places would have exploded, of course. All we have succeeded in doing with these two wars is change one set of totalitarian, inbred rapers of goats and children for another.

Flame on for all you statist, progressive, interventionist, neocon fools.


23 posted on 06/10/2013 4:34:00 AM PDT by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture....all should be preserved)
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To: Kaslin

No more American blood should be shed for these Islamists. Let the Sunnis kill the Shiites and vice versa. It’s not our fight


24 posted on 06/10/2013 4:39:12 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: Kaslin

There is no good outcome possible in Syria. Better we do not waste the time, effort, and money trying to have a one bad outcome instead of another bad outcome.


25 posted on 06/10/2013 4:47:10 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Kaslin
Neocon nonsense like this makes Rand Paul look better every day. The alliance of liberal interventionists and neocons is deadly to the future and freedom of our nation.

It's no surprised that Barone was a McGovern supporter.

26 posted on 06/10/2013 4:48:07 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Netz

I think we have gone past the status of paper tiger; it’s more like paper chihuaha.


27 posted on 06/10/2013 4:52:49 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Kaslin

We shouldn’t do a thing in Syria or for them.

If we effect a change we will be faced with a radical unknown but, expected


28 posted on 06/10/2013 5:00:25 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: arthurus

Nobody takes this President seriously in the world except his Liberal base in the States. In the Middle East most countries think BHO is an absolute joke. Israel for example, had hoped (Hope & Change) that he would not be as bad as Carter but this President proved them all wrong. He is bad, inept and with malice. The Middle East is ablaze with Iran and Russian running the show. Only Israel is showing “Baitzim” (balls in Hebrew) regarding the Syrians and Hizbollah. The game players in that region know BHO is just out having Kobe beef steaks and playing golf.


29 posted on 06/10/2013 5:02:34 AM PDT by Netz (Netz)
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To: Kaslin

Reports are that we are secretly aiding rebels.

The US needs to back away from any involvement. Instead strengthen Iraq and Israel.


30 posted on 06/10/2013 5:04:42 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: noprogs

Excellent points!


31 posted on 06/10/2013 5:08:38 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: Netz

The Syrian rebels and what they represent are more danger to the US than Iran and Hezbollah will ever be. Hopefully Assad will prevail.


32 posted on 06/10/2013 5:12:19 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: LibLieSlayer
barone is just a beltway mouthpiece and I no longer trust him or his manufactured analysis of anything.

Barone supports gay marriage... that was enough for me...

This idea that U.S. soldiers are nothing more than pieces on a game board to these people is bullshiite...

33 posted on 06/10/2013 5:12:52 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: txrangerette
Barone should be smarter than this.

But he is not, he supports gay marriage.

34 posted on 06/10/2013 5:19:08 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Netz
The Middle East is ablaze with Iran and Russian running the show.

The Russians don't have gay pride marches in their army.

35 posted on 06/10/2013 5:22:20 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

barone is just another way to spell ENEMY of FREEDOM!

LLS


36 posted on 06/10/2013 5:24:30 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

National Review has been taken over by the homosexists...


37 posted on 06/10/2013 5:31:20 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Gen.Blather

Our strategic interest is in the Gulf.

Syria is key to reducing the power of Iran, our real enemy.

Therefore, providing resources to the Gulf states and Turkey to be used against Assad is in the US strategic interest.


38 posted on 06/10/2013 5:35:22 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Who will shoot Liberty Valence?)
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To: bert

Why is Iran our real enemy? Sometimes I feel that our Iranian “enemies” are less of a danger to the US than our Saudi “friends”.


39 posted on 06/10/2013 5:46:47 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

It all started with fred the progressive barnes.

LLS


40 posted on 06/10/2013 6:17:00 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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