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MrRodgers -> RE: UN passes resolution on ending Israeli settlements (12/25/2016 11:11:17 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
Obama back stabbed our best ally in the region? How is this news. That's like saying BREAKING NEWS, the sun came up in the East this morning and is expected to set in the West
Don't worry...don't worry. Obama has the situation in hand. Why else would he be able to vacation.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/24/obama-sacked-consulate-and-dead-ambassador-bumps-in-the-road/
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/aleppo-american-decline-article-1.2920663
The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of Obama’s abdication. For which he seems to have few regrets, however. In his end-of-year news conference, Obama defended U.S. inaction with his familiar false choice: it was either stand aside or order a massive Iraq-style ground invasion.
This is a transparent fiction designed to stifle debate. Five years ago, the popular uprising was ascendant. What kept a rough equilibrium was regime control of the skies. At that point, the U.S., at little risk and cost, could have declared Syria a no-fly zone, much as it did Iraqi Kurdistan for a dozen years after the Gulf War of 1991.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/obamas-disgraceful-and-harmful-legacy-on-israel/article/2006041#!
Damned if he does and...damned if he don't. What the fuck did any repub pres. do about Syria ? Nothing except invade the ME in two wars and bring chaos to the whole fucking mess. Obama went to congress for the power and money to engage in Syria..... and ??
“You either ought to change the regime or you ought to do nothing,” he said this week, (Rumsfeld 2013) as if he were giving fantasy football advice. Calling Obama a weak leader, he said: “Did he need to go to Congress? No. Presidents as commanders in chief have authority, but they have to behave like a commander in chief.” In other words, more swagger, bluster and blind certainty.
Liz Cheney, in a feckless run in Wyoming for the Senate highlighted by a sellout of her own lesbian sister’s right to marry, says she would vote against the resolution to use force in Syria. She’s made a career, such as it is, backing her father’s legacy of waterboarding, nation invading and pillorying supporters of diplomacy before war.
And Senator Marco Rubio, robust defender of the Iraq war, has just cast a no vote on taking action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Later this month, dozens of Republicans in Congress will make the same decision, simply because they hate Obama, and would oppose him if he declared Grandmother Appreciation Day.
The voice that stands out most by his silence, the one that grates with its public coyness, is Bush himself. He has refused to take a side in the Syrian conflict. The president, he said, “has a tough choice to make.” Beyond that, “I refuse to be roped in.”
This is cowardice on a grand scale. Having set in motion a doctrine that touches all corners of the earth and influences every leader with a say in how to approach tyrants who slaughter innocents, Bush retreats to his bathtub to paint.
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