Maybe they could reconstruct one of his old crashed Navy jet fighters and give him a glass of sake, a kiss on each cheek and let him go solve Syria.

Don L on March 10, 2012 at 7:52 PM

And with him can go the newly-minted division of Keyboard Commando Paratroopers. |-\

And Obama is right…like a stopped clock or a blind hog. We don’t even have the reason of “OMG! WMD!” (Iraq) or national revenge (Afcr@pistan) to bother with that pesthole. Let it burn and let the barbarians kill each other.

I’m also heartened to see that many lifelong hawks are admitting that intervening is completely pointless, and that we cannot afford to waste blood or gold on such a venture.

McCain et al are chronic Senatoritis sufferers, locked into a USA-as-liberator mentality of some kind. That may have worked for Europe. Could have worked for Viet Nam if it had been allowed to. But the Middle East? Will it never occur to the McCains of this country that those pestholes are best left to rot? Not difficult to pinpoint the difference between these countries and more civilized regions of the world. Why do our elites favor Islam so? Long long story but shorthand of it might be that they admire it because it’s a population control success story. Submit! Wouldn’t our government and media love if they could command us to pray to them five times a day? Yes it’s unfortunate for the people over there, but why can we easily chalk up genocides in other parts of the world to fate, yet self-delude about a cesspool like Syria? It can’t be just the oil. Syria is not Saudi Arabia for oil. There’s something else at work.

What are we doing, making the region safe for things like this?! NINETY Iraqi students killed for having ‘strange hair and tight clothes’

This is in Iraq! Is that what we’re fighting for? This was the tip of the spear for USA nation-building, Teen stonings in Iraq. Imagine what would be made of this if anyone (forget Bush) but Obama was president. Obama is not entitled to minimum credit for anything. We’d say that this story alone illustrates the failure of such naive policies. How about that Libya? Success? Liberated? And now Syria? Come on.

Support Israel to the hilt. Leave the rest of it to crumble under the weight of their “vibrant culture.”*

*(‘Vibrant culture’ was what the Florida Agriculture Department official credited as the reason 9/11 leader Mo Atta threatened to cut her throat when she informed him that his $600,000 crop dusting grant application was denied.)

“I think this is not Libya. Libya is an oil well with a long beach and a primitive army. Syria has a serious air force, a serious army, and this would be a serious war.”

That’s very untrue, the Syrian army is every bit the joke other Arab armies are. Yes it has more tanks, artillery and planes but in American/Israeli/Western parlance those are known as JDAM fodder.

Oh God hope this isn’t true

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17330205

A US soldier in Afghanistan has killed 10 civilians and wounded five in Kandahar province after suffering a breakdown, officials say.

He left his military base in the early hours of the morning and opened fire after entering local homes, the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul………..

It is not going to happen without another long, expensive struggle (read: occupation) that Americans clearly don´t have the nerve for. A struggle that will be abandoned by the Democrats as soon as a domestic political advantage can be gained by demagoguing against it.

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When Assad falls, there will be no amnesties. There will be blood for blood with a heavy debt to pay. The regime knows this, and this is why to them there is no peaceful end to this. When they are deposed, they will be killed.

Trying to negotiate in such a situation is a waste of time.

Tzetzes on March 10, 2012 at 11:58 PM

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta sorta slipped and said we need international permission to move on Syria. Senator Sessions, I believe, questioned him at length.

Then he walked it back after the hearing. Sen. Sessions questions well. The answers seemed clear.

Maybe we have a group planning a strike on all these right wing nuts. Mossad, Panetta and the rest can take care of the problem and let the grownups handle things.

And once Iran is a flush nuclear power it is not a military problem. We can’t attack folks with nukes. Peace in our time.

Let’s not forget that supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan eventually led to the rise of the Taliban, to 9/11, and to our troops being commited on the ground for the better part of a decade.

9/11 was a consequence of Clinton’s failure to capture or kill Bin Laden when he had the chance. Our decision to try to civilize Afghanistan was just plain stupid, and it stands by itself as just plain stupid. Neither of those things was caused by our support for the Afghanistan insurgency against the Soviets.

Not even elected and already starting a war!

President Obama bombed Libya because of all the pickup trucks. Show our leader some rednecks and he will nuke the daylights out of a place.

All Romney haters please take note:

Mr. Joshua Hersh has an article in Huff Po attacking Mitt!

A retired Mossad leader, Efraim Halevy, thinks he is making everything WORSE over there.

Mitt had the temerity to point out President Obama’s reticence to use force in contrast to his willingness to destroy evil and threats to Israel.

Now isn’t that something for a Mossad operative to get upset about?

“I think what we should adopt is the Reagan Doctrine, the way he combated the expansion of Soviet influence in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola. You support the insurgency. You don’t put Americans on the ground or in the air,”

Let’s not forget that supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan eventually led to the rise of the Taliban, to 9/11, and to our troops being commited on the ground for the better part of a decade.

I prefer something other than the Reagan doctorine. They’re Syrians,and just because they don’t agree with eachother, that doesn’t mean that one side is our friend or that either side is an enemy to Iran. So, screw em.

THIS is the bottom line. Don’t come on the television and lecture me about “the moral imperative” to intervene in a potential “human rights disaster” in Libya and then turn a blind eye on the next — and far worse — one. If Libya had a “moral imperative,” then the moral imperative for intervention in Syria came and went several months ago. So what’s the real reason our bumbler-in-chief is doing all of this?

Rational Thought on March 10, 2012 at 7:27 PM

If our national POW hasn’t been standing in the well of the Senate every day b!tching about the negative effect abortion has on our moral imperative, then I’m supremely uninterested in Syria.

The main reason Jugears is keeping his distance from Syria is that Assad has all of Saddam’s WMD. Assad simply told him that if he did anything against him, then Syria would retaliate with WMD attacks on Americans in America. Sort of an Arab version of the Samson defense the Israelis have.

Jugears has those big ears for a reason – he can hear direct threats very well.

What is the U.S. national interest in Syria?

Of course it is tragic that some innocent victims and authentic liberal democrats are caught in the carnage. It is not our burden, however, to prevent that or to become enmeshed in other countries’ civil wars – not when there is no vital American interest in one side’s prevailing over the other. It is certainly not in the vital interests of a country weary of war, out of patience with Muslim madness, and $15 trillion in debt to further insinuate itself so that anti-American dictators can be replaced by anti-American Islamists.

It’s a pity that they can’t both lose. But if they have to savage someone, better each other than us.
(Andrew McCarthy)

like other internecine wars throughout islamic history, this is a war between muslims: assad and iran and aq and the mb are killing each other.

we should arm all sides and let them kill each other for as long as possible.

(as kissinger said about the iraq-iran war,)