First it was Rand Paul...
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Sen. Rand Paul raises an interesting question: When has
Hillary Clinton ever been right on foreign policy?
The Valkyrie of the Democratic Party says she urged
President Obama to do more to aid Syrian rebels years ago. And last summer, she
supported air strikes on Bashar Assad's regime.
* OH... AND SHE BACKED "BUSH'S WAR" AGAINST
IRAQ.
(*SMIRKING WHILE SHRUGGING*)
* SHE AND BILL BOTH - REMEMBER...?
Had we followed her advice and crippled Assad's army,
ISIS might be in Damascus today, butchering Christians and Alawites and aiding
the Islamic State in Iraq in overrunning Baghdad.
But if the folly of attacking Assad's army and weakening
its resistance to ISIS terrorists is apparent to everyone this summer, why were
Clinton, Obama and Secretary of State Kerry oblivious to this reality just a
year ago?
* INCOMPETENCE...? STUPIDITY...? CRIMINALLY STUPID INCOMPETENCE...?!?!
(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)
Consider the rest of Hillary's record:
Her most crucial decision as Senator came in 2002 when
she voted to invade Iraq.
She voted against the surge in 2006, but confided to
Defense Secretary Bob Gates that she did so to maintain her political viability
for 2008.
* FOR THAT ALONE SHE SHOULD RETIRE AND NEVER SHOW HER
FACE IN PUBLIC AGAIN.
* FOLKS... THINK ABOUT IT... SHE POLITICIZED A LIFE AND
DEATH DECISION AND ADMITTED DOING SO! SHE PUT NOT ONLY OUR TROOPS - BUT OUR
NATIONAL INTEREST - TO THE REAR OF HER PERSONAL POLITICAL AMBITION. SHE'S A
SICK, SICK, SICK WOMAN.
This is statesmanship? Not voting your convictions about
what is best for your country at war, so as not to antagonize the liberals in
the Iowa caucuses?
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
In 2009, Hillary presented a "reset button" to
Vladimir Putin's foreign minister.
* AND HOW DID THAT WORK OUT, FOLKS?
(*SNORT*)
In 2011, she supported U.S. air strikes to bring down
Col. Gadhafi and celebrated in Tripoli when he was overthrown and lynched.
* SHE LITERALLY CACKLED WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT GADHAFI'S
MURDER! SHE LAUGHED AT THE BARBARISM... THE CONTEMPT SHOWN FOR THE RULE OF
LAW... THE RULES OF LEGAL WARFARE AND POLICING!
Libya is today a hellhole of murder and mayhem and
Islamists are threatening a takeover. Who did Hillary think would rise when
Gadhafi fell?
* OBVIOUSLY SHE DIDN'T CARE. (THUS... THE SCREECHING
"WHAT DOES IT MATTER...?!?!" YOU DO REMEMBER THAT, RIGHT, FOLKS?)
Hillary's failure to anticipate or prevent the Benghazi
massacre and her role in the botched cover-up, all concede, are burdens she
will carry into the primaries in 2016, should she run.
Where, then, has Hillary exhibited the acumen to suggest
she would be a wise and savvy steward of U.S. foreign policy in a
disintegrating world?
* BUT... BUT...
Is this a convincing argument for the Republican
alternative?
(*SIGH*)
Hardly.
The principal GOP voices on foreign policy, who get more
airtime than Wolf Blitzer, are John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
* TWO... FRIGGIN'... IDIOTS...
Their track record: McCain wanted to confront Putin over
South Ossetia. He and Graham wanted to arm Ukrainians to fight the Russians in
Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk. They wanted Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia brought
into NATO, so that if war were to break out, we would be fighting the Russians
alongside them.
This year, Graham was trolling around a Senate resolution
to give Obama a blank check to attack Iran.
Last year, McCain and Graham were for attacking Assad's
army.
This year they are for bombing ISIS, which is attacking
Assad's army.
* FOLKS... NOT THAT I BELIEVE HRC WILL EVER BE ELECTED
PRESIDENT... BUT...
(*PAUSE*)
* WERE SHE TO BE - SHE'D NOMINATE MCCAIN TO BE HER
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND SHE'D PROBABLY OFFER GRAHAM SOMETHING WITHIN HER
ADMINISTRATION AS WELL.
But [since] Hillary, McCain and Graham have been
repeatedly wrong about Syria, what do we do now?
Answer: Stop and think.
First, this war in Syria and Iraq, like all such wars, is
eventually going to be won by soldiers, by boots on the ground, by troops who
can take and hold territory. And in such wars, as Napoleon said, God is on the
side of the big battalions.
America should declare to friends and allies in the
Middle East, as Nixon did to our friends and allies in Asia in the Guam
Doctrine of 1969, that while we will stand with them when they are attacked,
they, not we, will provide the soldiers for their own defense.
No nation is less threatened by ISIS than ours. And as
the Syrians, Turks, Kurds and Iraqis have the proximity and manpower to defeat
ISIS, they should do this job themselves.
(*THUMBS UP*)
Turkey shares a 550-mile border with Syria and could
march in and crush ISIS. But if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wishes to play
games with ISIS, out of hatred of Assad, let him and the Turks live with the
consequences.
* SOUNDS GOOD TO ME!
As for Syria's army and regime, which either defeats ISIS
or dies, let us cease impeding their efforts by backing a Free Syrian Army that
has rarely won a battle and is only bleeding the Syrian army.
(*NOD*)
Kurdistan and its ethnic cousins in Syria, Turkey and
Iran are capable of defending themselves, and we should encourage any nation,
including Iran, that is willing to send them the weapons to fight ISIS.
As for Baghdad, if it wants its Sunni lands back, it
either should fight for them or accept their loss.
* YEP...
We Americans are living today with the consequences, in
considerable losses of blood and treasure, of fighting other people's wars in
Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
* HEAR! HEAR!
* ENOUGH PLAYING THE CHUMP ALREADY!
Yet, we are suffering not at all from having kept out of
other people's wars — in Georgia, Crimea, Donetsk, Syria and Iran.
Speaking of the debate over U.S. air strikes in Syria,
the New York Times writes, "There are too many unanswered questions to
make that decision now, and there has been far too little public discussion for
Mr. Obama to expect Americans to rally behind what could be another costly
military commitment."
Sometimes the Times gets it right.
* RARELY... BUT SOMETIMES...
(*WINK*)
