While I support 100% what we did in Iraq, when we assisted the mujahidin against the Soviets we left a vacuum there which gave us the Taliban and we see where that had led us today.

Oops, meant to add in there as an example “when we assisted the mujahidin in Afghanistan…”

While I support 100% what we did in Iraq, when we assisted the mujahidin against the Soviets we left a vacuum there which gave us the Taliban and we see where that had led us today. Syria will not go down quietly and w/o help from Iran and Russia.

This is a situation that should have been stopped in the beginning of the “democratic” Arab Spring which it was NEVER what it was purported to be in the media. Anyone who served overseas at that time or currently could of have told you that and even many back home saw as well.

We need to unfortunately stay out of this fight for now and let Assad either strengthen his position or fall by the people. Mubarak should have NEVER been removed in my analysis. al Qa’ida is ONLY HOPING to cause continued instability in Syria and use it as a further base for its operations in the region.

Ø’Bambi wouldn’t know a justified fight if it broke out in front of him.
Sooooooooo … He’ll let the Israeli’s handle the problem and then cloak himself in “plausible deniability” all the while taking credit IF things go right.
The sleazy man-child in mom-jeans makes me wanna vomit.

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“The Obama Gambit”

Actually with obama in charge we can expect… Antiochus Epiphanes…
tominsd on February 11, 2012 at 12:00 AM

Priceless.

Unless Israel becomes threatened by these actions I see no reason for why we should send our HERO’S over there to DIE, DIE DIE! Besides, we all know how 0bama likes to pull out prematurely.

Stupid!

They have recognized that Libya was UNCONSTITUTIONAL and have drawn up a pre-emption gambit. Without that, in an election year, a second unconstitutional war would be a goner…assuming you buy into a declaration against AQ is open ended and global (I do not).

This Admin lays the framework, then spins the web. There hasn’t been much that isn’t pre-ordained. The ends justify the means. How many bad things can you think of that has been done since 20 Jan 2009?

Hey, what we need is, like, a “surge from behind”!

The world doesn’t see this the way we do, as an ideological event occurring in a vacuum and Barack Obama the main actor who matters.

I don’t think Americans appreciate just how bad it would be to mount a military intervention in Libya with Russian military advisors all over the country. I do think the Europeans will see it at some point.

God help the Syrians. Everyone else is just jockeying for position.

Jonah Goldberg fantasized a few days ago about a “permanent global clubhouse for democracies based on shared principles,” i.e. a UN for the good guys.

I don’t share any principles with Barky, let alone the Eurotrash. They are all in support of unlimited government, which disgusts me. This idea of yet another international org is dumb, as usual, though at least it doesn’t suffer from the deadly “empowered, peerless, competitionless” problem as the UN does.

Smart power is a synonym for idiocy.

See Kosovo for where this started.

With Obummer in charge, I doubt it as well. No epiphanies expected.

Actually with obama in charge we can expect… Antiochus Epiphanes…

Philly on February 10, 2012 at 10:42 PM

Wonder if anyone in our government might have a “road to Damascus” moment.

I am not holding my breath.

Hueydriver on February 10, 2012 at 10:54 PM

With Obummer in charge, I doubt it as well. No epiphanies expected.

I think it’s time to evict the UN from New York, then stop paying “dues” we have to borrow from other countries.

That corrupt P.O.S. has absolutely no value whatsoever. Er, unless you’re a rapi$t looking for a sanctioned score.

Wolfmoon on February 10, 2012 at 11:02 PM

This. Let them fund their own tyrannical circle jerk in whatever third world country will have them. Disinfect, fumigate, remodel, and rent out Turtle Bay as office space.

I do like the idea of a “League of Free Nations”.

That corrupt P.O.S. has absolutely no value whatsoever. Er, unless you’re a rapi$t looking for a sanctioned score.

Philly on February 10, 2012 at 10:42 PM

Wonder if anyone in our government might have a “road to Damascus” moment.

I am not holding my breath.

Let both sides fight it out with one another, just monitor the borders, let jihadists and others supporting both sides in, but don’t let anybody out. Watch from the skies and pretty much keep our hands off this mess. Unless oil supplies are threatened, then go in and seize the oil fields to keep them safe, but that’s it.

The ‘girls in charge’ have assured us oblivion in diplomatic status. Nowhere to go but up.