“GOP leaders should let Allah sort out Syria’s Islamic civil war”: [my emphases]
As bankrupt as elected Republican leadership is in Washington vis-à-vis domestic policy, they are completely clueless as it relates to foreign policy.
While America continues to become an economic and moral wasteland under this regime, Obama is attempting to spend American treasure helping one nefarious side of an Islamic civil war in Syria – one which involves Iran-allied supporters of Hezbollah (Assad regime) vs. predominantly Al Qaeda affiliated rebels.
Astoundingly, most GOP leaders are either siding with Obama or are totally insouciant to this reckless fomenting of an Islamic insurrection. Instead of fighting ObamaCare, they are allowing Obama to distract from the upheaval at home by focusing on this inane escapade in Syria.
Most media figures discuss the current foreign policy debate in broad platitudes pitting so-called neo-conservatives vs. libertarians, hawks vs. doves, or interventionists vs. isolationists. But these labels are non-sequiturs to the reality of the current debate.
Most mainstream conservatives are not Ron Paul libertarians who don’t support any war on terror. Quite the contrary, we support a robust intervention to repel Islamic terrorism when it threatens our interests. But in the case of Libya, Syria, and Egypt, we are actually intervening on behalf of our enemies.
Granted, Syria is more complicated than the other two examples. Bashar Assad is a sworn enemy of the United States, the closest ally of Iran, and a prolific exporter of terror.
In a perfect world, it would be great to overthrow him and stick it to Iran (and their Russian allies). But the reality is that the strongest elements of the insurgency are saturated with Al Qaeda affiliated extremists, backed by Pan-Islamist Turkish President Recep Erdogen, much like the insurgencies in other countries.
Why place American money and weapons in the hands of people who will be just as adversarial to our interests as the current regime? This is not a matter of opposing intervention for the sake of isolationism; it is a matter of not supporting intervention that is either superfluous or deleterious to our national interests.
A “hawkish” stance towards Assad is a dovish stance towards Al Qaeda. As Sarah Palin noted, in a battle with Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah on one side and Al-Qaeda and Turkey on the other, let Allah sort it out.
— I’m sorry. But I must stop this here to interject and note my profound displeasure, first with Ms Palin, and second with Mr Horowitz for referencing her toxic candor.
Islam is peace. Most Muslims are good. And using Allah’s name is really not the business of some infidel bitch or uppity Kike.
The wound from their barb is intolerable. We who support the Muslim people need to rise up in protest against such talk! Perhaps burn some shit down, or behead a British soldier, if we can find one.
But I’ve gone on too long. Forgive me if my courage and compassion brought me to anger. But I’m intolerant of intolerance.
This should be a slam dunk opportunity for GOP leaders to oppose a wrongheaded and unpopular intervention, while shifting the focus back to the ObamaCare civil war at home. Yet, House leaders are either ambivalent or downright supportive of Obama’s planned strike on behalf of Al Qaeda. In the Senate, Mitch McConnell put out his signature mealy-mouthed parsing of words, declining to take a stand on any contentious issue […]
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Our only interest in Syria is ensuring that as many Islamists on both sides are killed and keep each other busy so they can’t affect our national interests or threaten Israel. As long as the war is contained to Syria, a stalemate is the best outcome for our purposes so that neither Russia, Iran, Al Qaeda or other Islamists claim an outright victory.
Sadly, in a world of seven billion, there are innocent people killed on a daily basis due to civil wars. But we lack the resources or strategic plan to help those people in Syria without gratuitously tipping the scales to one of our arch enemies.
Some conservatives are concerned about evincing an image of weakness to our enemies by not following through with the ‘red line’ threat. Undoubtedly, they are correct about Obama’s self-contradictory policy in a wrongheaded intervention. But it is still a wrongheaded intervention, and the fact that he made the threat to begin with should not engender a need to fix that bad policy with another bad policy decision.
When Congress returns from the August recess, Republicans should vote with a unified voice against this ridiculous escapade, and summarily reconvene the fight against ObamaCare. Our freedom and way of life should take priority over bailing out a beleaguered group of Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda fighters. It’s time Republicans realize that.
Right: just as Obama is using this as a way to distract from the failure of his signature legislation and the upcoming deals that will be struck on taxes and the debt ceiling, the Republicans are intent to do just the same.
They don’t want to fight against ObamCare. They merely want to have it available in perpetuity to use as a fund raising tool.
And anything that distracts the redmeat Visigoths and Hobbits from the ObamaCare fight, the establishment craving for “comprehensive immigration reform,” and Boehner’s forthcoming preemptive surrenders on spending — well, those are good things.
Better to act politically than idealistically. Because idealists are sitting at home fretting, while the pragmatists have the power. So who’s the sucker now? Suckers.
(h/t Terry H)
There are costs to inaction, which we are no doubt going to be lectured about in interminable fashion.
What I expect we won’t hear about is what are the total costs of action. Costs which have been increased by this administration’s priorities just as they were by Clinton’s and Carter’s in the past.
geoff, after the “just muscular enough to keep from being mocked comment” there is no credibility left to salvage. Of course, the MSM/DNC axis will continue to pretend there is credibility to gained or saved through getting involved.
They don’t want to fight against ObamCare. They merely want to have it available in perpetuity to use as a fund raising tool.
Always retreating, never counterattacking. And always promising (pinky swear!) that we need to keep supporting their perpetual retreat, because otherwise the other side might win the war.
Good Lord. I cannot believe that we have such a hard time getting people to notice this.
Regarding President Obama’s desire for an AUMF, to borrow an old slogan, “Say Nope to Dope.”
Gotta admit though, if the GOP wasn’t so thoroughly this latest “Yaaaay Obama!” stance would really piss me off.
Instead, just throwing another sandbag on the bunker.
Matt Drudge Tweets! “Why Would Anyone Vote Republican”?
Boehnerfag can have his little war I guess just not in my name
Paul Considering Filibustering Syria Resolution
Speaking of bigotry…
There is no god but the State, and Obama is its prophet.
From dicentra’s link:
The goal is to rehabilitate? Stalin would be proud of that line.
but that doesn’t mean that folks have the right to discriminate
yea you have to buy coke, pepsi and the noname cola.
yea you have to buy coke, pepsi and the noname cola.
And hire that sex offender at your day-care center. Because it would be terribly discriminatory just to turn him down because he touched a few kids in the past!
If they want to sell me a plan to intervene in Syria, they’d do well to remember the first part of the bon mot that Palin and Horowitz are referencing. We have no friends there to worry about. We have no business there.
And hire that sex offender at your day-care center.
shut up stupid clown should be the reply
Those lefties over there are such lying liars who lie.
I posited the situation where they run a print shop and the Westboro Baptist Church orders some fresh new “God Hates Fags” signs.
They all claimed they’d go ahead and take their money, then organize a counter-protest.
In a pig’s eye, is where.
Because it would be terribly discriminatory just to turn him down because he touched a few kids in the past!
Hey if it was only just a few kids…
all hail the pervert cockus. effin clowns the lot.
We shall go on to the end, we shall mock them
fightin France, we shall mock themfighton the seas and oceans, we shall mock themfightwith growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall mock themfighton the beaches, we shall mock themfighton the landing grounds, we shall mock themfightin the fields and in the streets, we shall mock themfightin the hills; we shall never surrender“Discriminate.”
This word, hanging out there all alone without any other word to qualify it is indiscriminate incarnate which is also what he is demanding of all. Total indiscrimination in all things, everywhere.
It is apparently the law in Oregon that all humans are required to be mindless automatons. Which is the perfect Progressive Democrat world.
It seems to me the only reason to demand that somebody who doesn’t want your business take it anyways, is because you’re hoping for a payday. Either when they hurt your feelings by refusing your business, or when they hurt your feelings by ruining your event (so you hope) with a subpar product.
Dude, I caught just a whiff of a Jihadi in a Fallujah Bunker in your post.. It’s totally time for some new commentary from a couple of Syrian AQ Jihadis.. Praise Allah, and all.
Oh, and Happy New Year 5774!
Likely Corey Haim wouldn’t have anything insightful to add, anyway.. beyond Hell getting a bit crowded as of late, of course..
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JihadiSyrian MB Insurgent: “Hafez, did you hear the one about the American President and the red line?”Red line, red line, sometimes you see it and sometimes the red diaper is its camo.
Obama to world: Fuck you. This is YOUR red line. We didn’t build that!