But but, our policy of overthrow worked so well in Lybia...
“...we acted not in our national interests, but out of democratist ideology.”
Bullshit. Obama and Clinton acted in the national interests of their Saudi and Qatari puppet masters who wanted to run a pipeline through Syria. That’s all this was about.
We actually might have a chance now to roll back some of the vile corruption that has overtaken our government, but the first step is to admit how low we’ve sunk. Please let’s dispense with this nonsense about our noble but misplaced ideological motivations.
Dang it! You beat me by 38 seconds!
Great post...
“but out of democratist ideology. Assad is a dictator. Dictators are bad. So Assad must go.”
It was more like.. The Saudis need to build a pipeline through Syria. The Saudis have money. The Saudis gave money to the Clinton foundation. Assad must go.
I’m really confused as to why liberals are okay with ousting Assad when they had a fit over ousting Saddam.
It seems that the 0bama administration has tried to overthrow all muslim countries with secular gov’s. The radical Muslim Brotherhood has been inserted. Totalitarian, sharia is a leftist wet dream.
from the link :
It soon became clear that Assad’s most formidable enemies, and probable successors, would be the al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaida, or ISIS, then carrying out grisly executions in their base camp in Raqqa.
U.S. policy became to back the “good” rebels in Aleppo, bomb the “bad” rebels in Raqqa and demand that Assad depart. An absurd policy.
Nor had the American people been consulted.
After a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they saw no U.S. vital interests at risk in who ruled Damascus, so long as it was not the terrorists of ISIS or al-Qaida.
Then came Obama’s “red line” warning: The U.S. would take military action if chemical weapons were used in Syria’s civil war.
http://takimag.com/article/lessons_of_aleppo_for_trump_patrick_buchanan/print#ixzz4TA2YO7G2
What undercut this ultimatum was that Congress had never authorized the president to take military action against Syria, and the American people wanted to stay out of Syria’s civil war.
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Thanks for posting.
I think he’s a level off. We’re not here by mistake or bad policy. This was done by design.
Ping.
Putin’s victory in support of Assad’s indiscriminate war on non combatants (barrel bombs over market places for one example), is a Godsend to supporters of an amoral approach to foreign policy. Schrecklichkeit, once considered uncivilized, is now championed by Putinistas proud to champion Putin’s revanchinism and his war crimes.
A good analysis, thanks for bringing this to our attention.