Two years ago, Obama told the world that Bashar al-Assad had to go. For two years, Obama did NOTHING to bring that statement about.
One year ago, Obama said that any use of chemical weapons would be a “red line” for him. Syria used chemical weapons FOURTEEN TIMES before cynical politics more than American credibility and prestige prompted Obama to finally do anything while 120,000 Syrians perished miserably.
There was a time to act in Syria. The problem is that it was a long damn time ago. Tragically for the world, Obama dithered and demagogued rather than led and acted.
Now we face nothing a series of impossible choices. If we do nothing, we embolden Syria and worse – Iran – to continue to not only use weapons of mass destruction, but to build nukes so we can REALLY face a global crisis. When Obama was elected, it amounted to a 100% money-back guarantee that Iran would get its nuclear weapons program because Obama and Democrats would not stand up strongly when we needed a red damn line that actually had some giant fangs in it.
And yes, Iran’s nuclear weapons program is all about Democrat dithering (see here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here). You literally can’t shake a stick at all this evidence against Democrats and against the Obama regime. We saw all this coming a long time ago but Obama dithered. Now we’re seeing Islamic jihadism resurgent around the Islamic world; we’re seeing strong stable allies like Egypt fall and Jordan jeopardized. Obama has emboldened our enemies at the very same time he has caused all of our former friends and allies that George W. Bush certainly had to distrust us and refuse to back us.
One of the things that is going on is the dismissal of U.S. intelligence proof that Syria was behind the use of chemical weapons. Do you want to know WHY? Go back to Democrats doing everything they could to undermine American intelligence JUST BECAUSE GEORGE W. BUSH WAS PRESIDENT and you’ll see why we distrust our intelligence now. If that isn’t enough, just take a look at all the evidence that Obama massively and illegally expanded these intelligence programs after deceitfully and sanctimoniously saying he wouldn’t be like Bush and he would end these things that he instead made far larger and far more dangerous.
Obama claimed that Bush had no right to authorize an attack on another country without congressional approval. But apparently that was because he felt that Bush was merely a man while Obama views himself as some kind of a pharaoh god king who transcends the limitations he asserts for mere mortals. Because he claims that by virtue of his deity he has the authority that he said that Bush did not have. Obama argued that Bush had to have a United Nations mandate then and thinks that he doesn’t have to get one now because it turns out that with countries like Russia and China it’s just as impossible for Pharaoh god king Obama to get UN backing as it was for George W. Bush. Obama claimed that Bush was some kind of rogue cowboy who acted alone when Bush had 48 allies who were willing to put BOOTS ON THE GROUND while Obama can’t even get England to back us in lobbing a few cruise missiles into Syria.
Let’s go back and remember what Obama said when George W. Bush was president and Obama was just another dishonest and dishonorable demagogue rather than THE dishonest and dishonorable demagogue-in-chief:
That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power…. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.
But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors…and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.
Replace the name “Saddam Hussein” with Bashar al-Assad and explain the difference to me. Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction on his own people to an even greater extent than Bashar al-Assad has done. There were at least 300,000 in mass in mass graves in Iraq. If it wasn’t right to go then it isn’t right to go now. Which is why the rest of the world – by its isolation of Obama – is pretty much telling us with their silence that this is “A dumb war. A rash war.” And they’re doing so by the same despicable arguments that one Barack Hussein Obama once employed when he was doing everything he could to undermine one George W. Bush.
You kind of want to know why “an outrageous chemical attack” is only “outrageous” when a Democrat president who used to say it doesn’t matter suddenly decides for his own naked political interests comes to the opposite conclusion from what he thought when a Republican was running things. You want to know why John Kerry as Secretary of State asserts that doubts about the intelligence amount to cowardice and treason when he was one of the many Democrats who publicly doubted the intelligence when a Republican president’s picture hung in the CIA and NSA buildings.
That’s why the question as to whether chemical weapons were used isn’t “settled.” And of course, it’s why even IF the Syrian regime used chemical weapons, it’s no reason to believe Bashar al-Assad authorized it. And if you think otherwise, liberal, then explain to me how the IRS used the equivalent of chemical weapons against Tea Party conservatives but Obama can’t be blamed for it.
You start to see how Obama’s constant double-standards has undermined his own perch at the top of the wobbling pole.
Obama needs to finally OWN his disgrace. HE disgraced the presidency both BEFORE and WHILE he was president.
The sheer weakness and complete lack of honor of this man who sits in our White House makes me sick. But Democrats have been despicable for decades now.
Obama assured us “that our capacity to execute this mission is not time-sensitive; it will be effective tomorrow, or next week, or one month from now.” I would argue that is hogwash.
A news article has a sentence that pretty much puts the kibosh to the Obama lie (quickly butt-kissed by the career butt-kissers at the Pentagon) that delaying the strike against Syria won’t compromise anything:
Pentagon officials say strike won’t be hurt by delay
Jim Michaels and Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 11:12 a.m. EDT September 1, 2013WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials said Saturday that U.S. intelligence capabilities allow the military to track any movement of Syrian targets, which means a missile attack against Syria would be effective despite President Obama’s decision to delay a strike until Congress gives its approval.
Obama said Saturday that waiting would not weaken the U.S. ability to strike Syria if he gives the order. He said Syria’s use of chemical weapons against its own people deserves a military response.
If Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces try to hide its military assets, U.S. intelligence capabilities can find them, defense officials told USA TODAY. The U.S. military will also likely target buildings.
The United States has powerful signal intelligence capabilities, with the use of drones and satellites, and has the ability to monitor communications.
“Our intelligence and targeting capabilities offer the president and the nation tremendous advantages,” said a defense official who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak about a potential strike.
Moreover, the official pointed out, buildings that could be hit by missiles do not move.
However, the extra time will let Assad move weapons, such as artillery or rocket launchers, into populated areas and use civilians as human shields, said Charles Wald, a retired Air Force general who led the planning of the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban.
“It’s almost immoral to give the enemy more time to prepare,” Wald said.
Moving weapons from “a remote air base to a building near a school … does change the military calculations,” said Colin Kahl, an associate professor at Georgetown University and former Pentagon official. “But that was happening already,” he said.
A delay may add some complexity to the mission, said a second defense official speaking on condition of anonymity for the same reason. But the delay does not translate into protection for Syria’s military assets. U.S. intelligence and targeting technologies provide “tremendous advantages,” the official said, adding that if the Syrian regime thinks it will gain by a delay, it would be sorely mistaken.
Obama said Saturday that Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “has indicated to me that our capacity to execute this mission is not time-sensitive. It will be effective tomorrow, or next week, or one month from now.”
The Navy has positioned five destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean, within cruise missile striking distance of Syria. The ships can each carry up to 90 cruise missiles, though typically they carry less in order to make room for other weapons and personnel. A Marine troop-carrying ship has joined them.
U.S. military officials and analysts have said any attack will be aimed at military and intelligence targets, particularly units linked to the Aug. 21 chemical attack. It will not be designed to remove the Assad regime.
“We continue to refine our targeting based on the most recent intelligence, and the chairman assured the president that we would have appropriate targeting options ready when he called for them,” said Air Force Col. Ed Thomas, a spokesman for Dempsey.
Here’s the sentence:
Moving weapons from “a remote air base to a building near a school … does change the military calculations
Yes, smarmy, arrogant Obama-worshipers: you’re right that Syria would probably not be able either move many of the targets that military planners are targeting in a manner that would keep us from re-locating them. But Syria doesn’t HAVE to move the targets.
Syria has two other things they could move while keeping all of their precious targets in plain view.
One would be his chemical weapons. If the U.S. were to hit any of those chemical weapons, we would send giant lethal clouds of WMD in whatever direction the wind was blowing. Thanks to Obama’s dithering, Syria has plenty of time to do that.
If you think the Arab world isn’t ALREADY pissed off enough at Obama’s incompetence, well, we’d find out pretty quick that nope, they’re capable of being even MORE pissed off if Obama ignites any poison gas.
The other would be civilians – a.k.a. “human shields.” Syria could chain a bunch of crying women and children to every one of their chemical weapons located at every single one of the locations the U.S. has targeted. Thanks to Obama’s dithering, Syria has plenty of time to do that.
And it would be Obama murdering them, wouldn’t it? I mean, it wouldn’t have been Syria that detonated those chemical warheads; it would have been Obama and his God Damned America that did it. American cruise missiles would hit, and then all of a sudden there goes tons of poison gas from the very sites that those missiles had just hit.
What would our “plan B” look like if Syria were to use all the time and heads-up that Obama has given them to pull off that trick??? What would Obama’s “narrow” option be then???
Now, we can hope that Syria’s leaders are as incompetent and stupid as OUR leaders are. And we can hope they won’t think of that. But according to the article above, it pretty much sounds like they already have.
But it’s just hard to imagine anybody else would be as incompetent and stupid as our leaders have proven themselves to be.
Obama’s delaying could also give Russia more than enough time to position weapons capable of sinking a U.S. warship, if that’s what Russia wanted to do through its proxy Syria. This isn’t the same Russia that was weak when Bush I and Bush II were presidents; it is a Russia resurgent under the weakness of Obama and it is a Russia that seems quite willing to let Obama know what it thinks of him.
That’s one reason why we shouldn’t compare Syria to Iraq, as Obama says we shouldn’t: Syria is armed with more recent Russian weaponry given to them by a far more dangerous and aggressive Russia.
What would happen if Obama tried to act tough to cover himself for his “red line” idiocy and Syria attacked us right back? Would Obama skulk home with his tail between his legs or would it be Gulf of Tonkin, part deux???
I’m going to guess one of the reasons the U.S. strike will be utterly feckless and ineffective will be that there just won’t be any target we can strike that something really bad wouldn’t happen were we to hit it.
Any strike against Syria frankly already should have HAPPENED. Any strike on any target should be a) massive and b) by as much surprise as we can attain. Thanks to Obama’s weakness, we shall have neither.
What should Republicans do? How should they respond?
Well, if they want to win this POLITICALLY they should be like Democrats were with Bush. Do you notice Obama is going to Republicans trying to find somebody to help him? I mean, where are the damn Democrats? That’s because no Democrats have anywhere near the courage and integrity needed to do the right thing in this nation of God Damned America. Here’s a statement in a Reuters article about which party has that integrity to do the right thing and which one has its finger to the political winds:
No one knowledgeable about Congress was willing to predict with any confidence how it would deal with a resolution to permit strikes in Syria.
The uncertainty is compounded by Obama’s often strained and distant relationship with Congress.
A House Democratic aide, on condition of anonymity, said “the vote will depend on the Republicans” because Democrats “will be split down the middle.”
That’s it, dishonorable Democrats. Vote “present,” just like your messiah did when he was a senator. Vote just like the despicable, dishonorable cowards you are. Vote just like the despicable, dishonorable cowards you’ve been for well over forty years.
Do you want to know where Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is on Syria? Good luck finding out where that cynical coward stands:
One voice in Washington that has been remarkably absent from this week’s Syria debate has been that of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Mrs. Clinton hasn’t said anything at all about President Obama’s plans for military strikes against the dictatorship in Damascus. As someone who dominated the US foreign policy landscape over the past four years, Clinton’s silence on Syria is striking. What explains this?
I mean, hey, other than the Benghazi debacle where somehow HRC was strangely completely absent and to this day nobody knows where the hell Obama was, wasn’t Hillary Clinton supposed to be the greatest Secretary of State in the history of the world??? Surely such a great statesperson has something to say. But what we’ve got from her instead is this.
And what are key Obama figures doing on Syria? Playing naked politics even as their false-messiah boss keeps disingenuously asserting that stuff like this transcends politics. As soon as Obama got through meeting with his political advisers and decided to “punt” to Congress, David Axelrod – who basically CREATED “Black Jesus” Obama – immediately came out and wrote:
Of course, just the day before getting congressional approval had NOT been “consistent with Obama’s principles” because Obama had repeatedly said he didn’t need to do it and had no intention of doing it. Maybe Axelrod was describing “Obama’s principles” when BUSH was president??? And note how politically and how cynically politically Axelrod puts this act of cynical presidential hand washing.
And keep in mind that Obama punted to Congress when Congress won’t be back to do anything about it until at least September 9. When they DO come back, they’ll have their hands more than full dealing with the budget and the sequester and the debt limit. And I’ll bet you anything you want that Obama will be politicizing the hell out of the whole godawful mess. Because that’s the only thing he can do well.
You see, if Republicans want to win, they need to be the same sort of naked gutless and soulless political opportunists that Democrats have been. They need to hold back on the vote until AFTER the Democrats have voted. If the Democrats split down the middle, defeat the damn authorization bill and blame Democrats and say that the president couldn’t even convince his own damn party. You know, the same way Democrats would have done if Bush were president. And then start pounding the airwaves with the “Obama has isolated himself and isolated America” rhetoric. You know, the same way Democrats would have done if the shoe were on the other foot.
Republicans – if they were like Democrats – would be flooding the airwaves crying that Obama is taking us to war only because his foolish “red line” bluff was called and he looks like a weakling and a fool now. The only difference is they would actually be RIGHT to say that whereas the Democrats really don’t give a rodent’s posterior about the actual facts when they demagogue.
The biggest political problem Republicans have is that, unlike Democrats, they actually care about their country rather than using every issue as an opportunity to hurt the other side. And in this God Damn America that Obama and Democrats have forged, doing the right thing morally is the wrong thing politically.
The day Republicans start acting like the Democrat Party, America will fall. Because the Democrat Party is the party of Pandering via-socialist giveaways and it is the party of weakness and suicide.
In the meantime, Obama’s dithering and delays and weakness have already irreparably harmed America. This is the Arab consensus of Bush v. Obama:
Mohammed Yassin, a 45-year-old Palestinian in Gaza said Obama did not look like the “tough guy Bush was”. Employing an Arab nickname for Obama, derived from his Kenyan father’s name, Yassin said, smiling: “Abu Hussein has no balls.”
“No balls Obama.” This is a particularly dangerous attitude in a part of the world where ONLY dictators can govern because only strength and power are respected and any hint of weakness is something to exploit and attack.
Even the überüberliberal Los Angeles Times acknowledges “No Balls Obama’s” lack of resolve with their headline:
To Mideast, U.S. policy on region seems adrift
Middle East friends and foes alike seem to find President Obama’s lack of decisiveness confounding.
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Jeffrey Fleishman and Paul Richter
September 2, 2013, 7:00 a.m.
Is there any wonder the Arab world believes Obama has no balls when even his most ardent, most partisan, most ideologue supporters (i.e. leftwing journalists) don’t think he’s got any balls???
In the Middle East in particular, what Obama just did is tantamount to a man backing down from a fight in front of everybody after doing a lot of tough talking, but saying he’d come back later (with his friends from Congress – and THEY’D show you!). Oh, and when Obama and his friends finally show up sometime later, they won’t be kicking ass because that would involve them putting their boots on the ground, wouldn’t it? Nope; they’ll come in with a little token show of force and a lot more tough posturing. The obvious conclusion to everybody who watches Obama cringe away to Congress is that he’s a coward and a weakling.
That’s why Obama is less respected and more hated by Arabs in the Middle East than George W. Bush ever was. That is why Obama’s approval in the Middle East is lower than Bush’s EVER was. That is why the United States is less popular under the failed regime of Barack Obama in the Middle East than it EVER was during the Bush administration.
For the record, Bush demanded that Libya dismantle its chemical weapons, and Gaddafi took one look at what he’d just seen Bush do to Saddam Hussein and he dismantled his chemical weapons. THAT’S the only way to deter a threat in the Middle East.
Obama projected abject weakness and indecision and wavering in the Middle East at a time that we needed to project strength and stability and resolve. And the Middle East has dissolved into chaos as a result of Obama.
America’s image as a nation of strength and resolve has been pissed away. And we are back in the days that Bill Clinton created when one Osama bin Laden watched years of Clinton’s cowardice and concluded that:
As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger. He was unable to endure the strikes that were dealt to his army, so he fled, and America had to stop all its bragging and all that noise it was making in the press
That was before the last massive attack against America.
Next up, a nuclear armed Iran with no fear of America and a rabid desire to strike at the Great Satan. Because, let’s suppose Republicans come through when coward Democrats won’t and Congress authorizes the “very limited strike” against Syria that Obama wants. Is anybody truly so stupid that they think that a “very limited strike” will frighten Iran away from crossing the finish line with its nuclear program and becoming IMPERVIOUS to such strikes? Does anybody actually believe that a few cruise missiles will do anything other than EMBOLDEN Iran?
The day that America elected the weakling Obama was the day that America voted for ultimate nuclear Armageddon. And every day that passes makes that fact more and more clear.
P.S. For the record, I am dead set AGAINST the kind of strike that Obama has called for because it would do nothing save allow Obama to declare that he’d lived up to his “red line” bovine feces. That said, I’d be FOR a strike in Syria: provided it was a DECISIVE strike that truly made Syria rue their use of chemical weapons and Iran think twice and then think twice again about their nuke program. I would like to see John Boehner present TWO bills authorizing the use of force, with one representing Obama’s gutless limited approach and the other representing the kind of sustained ass-kicking that the situation calls for. And within that latter bill a clear statement declaring that anything SHORT of a sustained ass-kicking has been specifically banned by that bill. And we would put boots on the ground ONLY to establish a perimeter around and then remove the chemical weapons stockpiles from Syria. And let’s vote and see what happens.
Btw, if you want to know why we didn’t find Saddam’s wmd stockpile when we invaded Iraq, it was because Saddam sent them to his fellow Ba’athist thugs in Syria.
As part of any resolution to attack Syria, we would have to have a contingency plan for dealing with the al Qaeda element taking over if our strikes collapsed Assad’s regime. We would be voting to hang in there and help – by whatever means were necessary – to secure a democratic successor to the thugs who now run the country. Or at LEAST a “pro-democracy thug” such as what we’ve now got and frankly had before with Mubarak in Egypt.
Nothing less is adequate. Nothing less will do anything but create more harm and more havoc than good.
Furthermore, given that the United Nations Secretary General has already stated that anything Obama does SHORT OF ABSOLUTELY DAMN NOTHING would be illegal, either do nothing or stomp enough to leave a nice big splash. If we lob so much as ONE missile into Syria, it will be an act of war. Don’t be half-assed when you play at war, Obama. If you want to send “a shot across the bow,” please do it here rather than with your toys stationed in the Mediterranean.
Also for the record, I think the reason the world has so completely isolated Barack Obama is that the world wants to back a winner. Forty-eight nations got behind Bush and put boots on the ground because Bush was a winner and they could count on him to hang tough. Nobody is backing Obama because they know that he is a loser who will abandon both his positions and his friends who got behind his positions the moment it serves his political posturing to do so.
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