NDAA 2016: Almost $1B to Arm and Train Syrian, Ukrainian Rebels

The Senate has approved a 2016 Defense Department spending bill that earmarks nearly $1 billion to arm Syrian and Ukrainian rebels, including several batallions adopting neo-Nazi symbols and slogans. By a veto-proof 70-27 vote, the Senate voted on October 7 to approve the $612 billion Pentagon appropriation bill for 2016, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

While most of the items in the bill would never be approved were our government to be bound by the enumerated powers of the Constitution, a few of the provisions are particularly pernicious.

From the link Quoting George Washington

“Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.

Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.”

“Well no use for that...Syria will be in the hands of Russia and the ISIS obuma is protecting will all be killed....”

ISIS will rebase to friendly staging areas in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. They have no national attachments, and most of them are not even from Syria to begin with. What was that thing again from the Citizen of the World?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

“Has America now become the enemy of Western Civilization?”

Someone here mentioned the other night that the US might just suffer an EMP attack soon, and neither China or Russia would be party to it.

The more I think about it, the more I believe this could very well happen.

The US under the current regime is threatening the entire developed world in one way or another.

“Ukrainian rebels? The rebels are the Russian puppets. We should be supporting the Ukrainian government.”

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“The new Ukraine, by contrast, is inspired by the spirit of the Maidan revolution in February 2014 and seeks to radically reform the country. By treating Ukraine like a second-class Greece that is not even a member of the European Union, Europe is in danger of turning the new Ukraine back into the old Ukraine. That would be a fatal mistake because the new Ukraine is one of the most valuable assets that Europe has, both for resisting Russian aggression and for recapturing the spirit of solidarity that characterized the European Union in its early days.”
- George Soros
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/08/ukraine-europe-what-should-be-done/

Oh, you sneaky ObamaCons!

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