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"The United States is being sucked into a new Middle
East war," says The New York Times. And the Times has it exactly right.
Despite repeated pledges not to put "boots on the
ground" in Syria, President Obama is inserting 50 U.S. special ops troops
into that country, with more to follow.
* THEY'VE NO DOUBT BEEN THERE FOR MONTHS... IF NOT
YEARS...
U.S. A-10 "warthog" attack planes have been
moved into Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, close to Syria.
Hillary Clinton, who has called for arming Syrian rebels
to bring down Bashar Assad, is urging Obama to establish a no-fly zone inside
Syria.
Citing Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus, John McCain is
calling for a no-fly zone and a safe zone in Syria, to be policed by U.S. air
power.
* GOD, I WISH MCCAIN WOULD...
(*BITING MY TONGUE*)
* AS FOR PETRAEUS... THE MAN IS A PIECE OF HUMAN TRASH.
IN FACT, HE SHOULD BE BREAKING ROCKS IN LEAVENWORTH RIGHT NOW!
"How many men, women and children," McCain
asks, "are we willing to watch being slaughtered by the Russians and
Bashar al-Assad?"
* SERIOUS QUESTION: SINCE WE'RE WAGING WAR AGAINST ASSAD...
WOULD ASSAD BE WRONG TO WAGE WAR RIGHT BACK AGAINST US? IF HE DOES, LET'S HOPE
HE TARGETS OUR POLITICIANS AND NOT OUR CIVILIANS.
Yet, if we put U.S. forces onto sovereign Syrian
territory, against the will and resistance of that government, that is an act
of war.
* IT USED TO BE. THOSE DAYS ARE LONG GONE.
Would we tolerate Mexican troops in Texas to protect
their citizens inside our country?
* DO I REALLY HAVE TO VENTURE A GUESS...?
(*SMIRK*)
Would we, in the Cold War, have tolerated Russians in
Cuba telling us they were establishing a no-fly zone for all U.S. warplanes
over the Florida Strait and Florida Keys?
* FOLKS... WE'RE THE BAD GUYS! I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS -
BUT IT'S THE TRUTH.
* IF ASSAD IS OUR ENEMY... IS A THREAT... SHOULDN'T THE
PRESIDENT BE CALLING UPON CONGRESS TO DECLARE WAR?
(*SILENCE*)
Obama has begun an escalation into Syria's civil war, and
not only against ISIS and the al-Nusra Front, but against Syria's armed forces.
Mission creep has begun. The tripwire is being put down.
Yet, who authorized Obama to take us into this war?
* NO ONE... LEGALLY... AS FAR AS I CAN TELL.
The Russians and Iranians are in Syria at the invitation
of the government. But Obama has no authorization from Congress to put combat
troops into Syria.
* CONGRESS...?!?!
(*SNORT*)
(*SMIRK*)
* WHERE'S SPEAKER RYAN? WHERE'S SENATE MAJORITY LEADER
MCCONNELL? HELL... WHERE'S PELOSI... WHERE'S REID?
* WHERE'S SENATOR RAND PAUL... SENATOR TED CRUZ...
SENATOR MARCO RUBIO... SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM...?
* FOLKS - THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS BEING RUN BY
ONE MAN - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. NO OPPOSITION PARTY. NO RULE OF LAW. NO
CONSTITUTION. JUST... OBAMA.
Neither the al-Nusra Front nor ISIS has an air force.
Against whom, then, is this Clinton-McCain no fly-zone directed, if not Syrian
and Russian warplanes and helicopters?
Is America really prepared to order the shooting down of
Russian warplanes and the killing of Russian pilots operating inside Syria with
the approval of the Syrian government?
In deepening America's involvement and risking a clash
with Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces, Obama is contemptuously ignoring a
Congress that has never authorized the use of military force against the
Damascus regime.
* CONGRESS... DOESN'T... CARE...!!!
* CONGRESS - BOTH PARTIES - LIKE IT THIS WAY! NO
AUTHORITY EQUALS NO RESPONSIBILITY - THAT'S HOW THESE SCUMBAGS THINK.
Congress' meek acquiescence in being stripped of its war
powers is astonishing.
* NO. IT'S NOT. IT'S THE NORM.
Weren't these the Republicans who were going to
Washington to "stand up to Obama?"
(*GUFFAW*)
Coming after Congress voted for "fast track,"
i.e., to surrender its constitutional right to amend trade treaties, the
capitulations of 2015 rank as milestones in the long decline into irrelevance
of the U.S. Congress. Yet in the Constitution, Congress is still the first
branch of the U.S. government.
* WHAT CONSTITUTION? OBAMA DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE
CONSTITUTION. NEITHER DO EITHER REPUBLICANS NOR DEMOCRATS. NOR DO AT LEAST SIX
MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT. NOR DO THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE.
Has anyone thought through to where this U.S.
intervention can lead?
* THE AVERAGE AMERICAN IS INCAPABLE OF TRUE THOUGHT. OF
THIS I'VE BECOME CONVINCED.
This weekend, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP,
of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regained full control of the parliament in a
"khaki election" it called after renewing its war on the Kurdish PKK
in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq. Erdogan regards the PKK as a terror
group. As do we. But Erdogan also considers Syria's Kurdish fighters, the YPG,
to be terrorists. And Ankara has warned that if the YPG occupies more territory
along the Syrian-Turkish border, west of the Euphrates, Turkey will attack.
Why should this concern us? Not only do we not regard the
YPG as terrorists, they are the fighting allies we assisted in the recapture of
Kobani. And the U.S. hopes Syria's Kurds will serve as the spear point of the
campaign to retake Raqqa, the ISIS capital in Syria, which is only a few dozen
miles south of YPG lines.
* AGAIN... A NATION OF MORONS CAN'T REALLY BE EXPECTED TO
UNDERSTAND ANY OF THIS - OR CARE. WELCOME TO AMERIKA, MY FRIENDS!
Should the YPG help to defeat ISIS and become the
dominant power in northern Syria, the more dangerous they will appear to
Erdogan, and the more problems that will create between the Turkish president
and his NATO ally, the United States.
Not only does a Congressional debate on an authorization
to use military force appear constitutionally mandated before we intervene in
Syria...
* WE'VE BEEN INTERVENING IN SYRIA ALL ALONG! WE'RE
BASICALLY AT WAR WITH SYRIA; CERTAINLY FROM SYRIA'S PERSPECTIVE!
...but the debate itself on an AUMF might induce a
measure of caution before we plunge into yet another Middle East quagmire.
* CONGRESS REFUSED TO APPROVE OBAMA'S INTERVENTION IN
LIBYA IF MEMORY SERVES... AND YET...
(*SHRUG*)
* WHY EVEN PRETEND WE'RE LIVING IN A CONSTITUTIONAL
REPUBLIC ANYMORE? WE'RE CLEARLY NOT. OUR PRESIDENT IS BASICALLY A DICTATOR. HE
DOES WHAT HE WANTS WHEN HE WANTS AND HE DOES IT ALL WITH A STROKE OF HIS PEN.
(PARAPHRASING OBAMA HIMSELF.)
When Saddam fell, we got civil war, ISIS in Anbar, and a
fractured and failed state with hundreds dying every week.
And, as of today, no one knows with certitude who rises
if Assad falls. The leading candidates are Jabhat al-Nusra, the front for an
al-Qaida that brought down the twin towers, and the butchers of ISIS, who
captured another town on the Damascus road this weekend.
Monday, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Erdogan's
regrettable victory is "a reminder of what happens when America's refusal
to act to stop chaos in places like Syria frightens allies into making
unpalatable choices."
Now there's an argument for America's plunging into
Syria: Send our troops to fight and die in multi-sided civil war that has cost
250,000 lives, so Turks will feel reassured enough they won't vote for
"strongmen" like Erdogan.
* AMAZING, ISN'T IT? THE INSANITY OF THE NEOCONS... ALIGNED WITH THE LEFTISTS...
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