Why Syria?
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| Obama's Cool Wars |
The President’s assertion of a short attack has been called “the Goldilocks” approach to war, offered as a measured, limited response to the use of poison gas that killed over a thousand men, women and children in late August. Wars, however, do not lend themselves to such measures. They have a way of getting out of control, drawing in nations that have no wish to engage in them.
Moreover, there is ample reason not to rush into any military operation until we know whether, in fact, the poison gas was used by Assad or by rebel forces seeking to draw the U.S. and other nations into the conflict. Logically, there was no reason for Assad to use poison gas. All observers were of the view that he was winning the civil war at the cost of slaughtering 100,000 Syrians and turning millions into refugees.
This is not the first time the world has stood aside while such slaughters have taken place. It is an ugly truth, but it is the truth.
Who is rushing to resolve the horror that is Syria? Not the United Nations. Not NATO. Not Great Britain. Not Saudi Arabia. Not the Arab League. Nor has the United States to the point where Obama had to reverse course and ask for permission from Congress.
When you also consider the failure of the U.S. to arm “moderate” rebel forces as promised, it raises still more questions regarding who to arm and why the proposal has proven so resistant to fulfillment.
An element of the Benghazi scandal is the widespread belief that Libya was being used for the covert transfer of weapons, but that does not explain why the Obama administration blatantly lied about those who perpetrated the attack that killed an American ambassador and three security personnel, nor why there was no effort to come to their aid.
It is absurd to say that Assad’s Syria represents a threat to American national security and the hearings on Capitol Hill made it clear that the Joint Chiefs are very reluctant to initiate an attack that, militarily, is not likely to do much to degrade Assad’s ability to wage war. The Syrian operation comes at a time when the nation’s military capacities have been worn down by more than a decade of fighting in the Middle East. Congress would have to make a special appropriation to cover the cost of the use and replacement of missiles.
Americans have been forced to witness a theatre of the absurd as Democratic Party spokespersons from Obama to Kerry, Pelosi to Wasserman-Schultz, defend the attack while supported by RINOs John McCain and Lindsay Graham. Even Republican leaders such as John Boehner and Paul Ryan have had to make the calculation to support Obama in order to avoid having the nation look weak in the wake of his “red line” statements.
The problem, however, is that the U.S. does look weak after its involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Adding Syria to the list will only enforce that perception.
It is more than a perception. It is a reality. A nation tottering on bankruptcy and default is, by definition, weak. A nation that has degraded its military power is, by definition, weak. A nation led by a vacillating, incompetent President is, by definition, weak.
It has taken barely five years for Obama to “fundamentally transform” America into a liberal cesspool of debt, widespread unemployment, and now a debate over whether to use military power to help him “save face” in a world where the fate of Syria is way down on the list of priorities, led by the increasingly desperate need to save America.
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© 2013 Alan Caruba. Alan is a writer by profession; has authored several books, and writes a daily column, "Warning Signs" disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites and blogs. He is a contributing author at ARRA News Service.
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The Druze people live in both Syria & Lebanon. During the Lebanese Civil War, the Gnostic Druze & Christian Militia forces were allied with Israel against the Hamas Militia, the Sunni Muslim Palestinian extremist group.
With Obama foaming at the mouth & quite eager to attack the Muslim secular government of Assad by being aligned with, & arming, the Muslim Brotherhood Militia, including those Islamo-Terrorists loyal to Al Qaida, who if successful in overthrowing the Baathist Syrian state udner Assad, will in fact establish under Dictatorial Mullahs, an Islamic Republic like Iran in Syria. Accordingly, the only hope for Syria (because Obama is on the wrong side in the Syrian Civil War) is for the Russians and Chinese to protect their Client, President Assad; and, for a Christian Coptics and Druze Militia in the South of Syria to organize a Greater Holy Land Foreign Legion and invite soldiers of fortune mercenaries like former Blackwater Security Forces who were American contractors who fought in Iraq, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the fighting forces of a Provisional Government of Kurdistan, who would be invited to provide as allied forces, the Kurds National Guards.
It is understood that the subjugated non-Arab Kurdish populations of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, who like America, would be quite an insurgent force if encouraged to fight for self-determination and the political independence of Kurdistan, which is occupied in part by Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, if armed in Syria would be a potent guerrilla army to reckon with. Any free and independent Kurdistan movement should be encouraged and granted political recognition by the countries of Western Civilization
Such a Druze Militia, allied with the Kurds National Guards coalition, would be best supported clandestinely through American and European Christian donors and Israeli sympathizers -- to stop the roving gangs of Obama's Syrian Free Army from at will, gang raping Druze and Jewish women of Syria in the public streets of the war zone, and also performing ethnic-cleansing beheadings to exterminate all Jewish, Gnostic Druze, and Coptic Christian, men, women, kids and toddlers, on sight, to joyous Muslim Brotherhood shouts of "Allah Akbar," as a collateral goal to overthrow Syrian President Assad, entire Gnostic and Coptic Christian Syrian villages are burned along with any synagogues and churches which may be found, as in like manner the Muslim Brotherhood gangs of extremist Islamo-Terrorist Militias did earlier this year in Egypt, for which acts the Egyptian military liberators arrested the Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Morsi for being complicit in those murders committed in Egypt.
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