We there you have it my gentle fellow citizens of the land of the feckless, home of the naive. When asked what it was exactly that our leaders hoped to gain by intervention in Syria, Admiral Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, answered, “I don’t know, I can’t answer that.” Just let that soak in for a moment or two, and we’ll chat afterwards.
I really did not want to do another Syria bit today, but seeing as though the only other news was about the monster Ariel Castro’s suicide, and the fact that a senior Obama Official has admitted that when we do intervene in Syria, our belief is that our action will accomplish nothing, I felt obliged. I don’t know what the background of Admiral Dempsey is here, and my sense is that he is held hostage by his principals to serve an Administration that he genuinely dislikes. Somebody has to hold his job while our treasonous President serves out his term, and it’s possible that, to his thinking, somebody should actually have America’s best interests at heart. At the same time, he is honor bound to follow the President’s orders, no matter how stupid they may be.
So, when the President ordered him to appear at the Kerry dog and pony show orchestrated for the Senate, he was stuck betwixt a rock and a hard place when asked the simple question, what good do you hope comes of this? Kicking out the Iranian puppet regime which takes the form of Hezbollah and that group of shiite thugs, in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood controlled puppet regime which will take the form of Al-Queda and that group of Shiite thugs, makes darned little sense when the end game is considered in its proper perspective, which is that there will be no appreciable difference in what Syria will be, in the end.
There is not one single argument for intervention in Syria that passes even cursory scrutiny. Chemical Weapons or WMD? Do you honestly believe that Al Queda, those fine folks who flew airplanes into the WTC and Pentagon are less likely to use Chemical weapons once they get their hands on them? They had no compunction with the thought of killing thousands of innocent people, what makes anyone believe that killing hundreds would give them pause? Bashir Assad is a really bad guy? What evidence does anyone have that the replacement thugs will be any nicer? Does September 11, 2001 ring any bells for you? That’s exactly who our President has chosen to support.
What it comes down to is this, our President, as much as he accused everyone else in the world of having this fault, decided that seventh grade school yard diplomacy would be the way to go in terms of helping Bashir Assad, the one time bestest buddy of the Democrats in Washington, make the best decisions for all of humanity, and those poor souls in Syria who live at his pleasure. Our President, fully armed with that smart diplomacy power, and his vast array of sternly worded letters and such, told Mr. Assad, a known sociopath, that there was a, “red line,” which he dare not cross. So, in the spirit of seventh grade, “neener neener,” brand of politicking, which for those Middle East aficionados is also known as saber rattling, Bashir Assad emphatically asked directions to the vaunted, “red line,” and crossed so many times that it is indistinguishable from the rest of the sand in the desert.
So now, the rush to lob a single cruise missile so that it explodes harmlessly in the desert, (brings back memories of Bill Clinton doesn’t it,) is supported by the latest iteration of an argument, America will look weak should we fail to do this thing. For the intellectuals out there, who may have a hard time following an argument that is not properly nuanced, I am truly sorry. I realize that simplicity is the enemy of tortured logic, and I’m only spit balling here, but perhaps the foreign policy based on projecting American weakness is what has made America seem weak. Maybe, just maybe, Bashir Assad looked out over the happenings in Egypt, Tunisia, Quatar, Libya, the Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria, and where ever else, and said, hey there’s a Democrat in the White House again, I can behave poorly with impunity.
The worst part of this dog and pony show for me is the realization that the Republican Party once again, asserts its place as the Palooka Party. Barack Obama, who has thrown this farce to Congress for a hypothetical debate, which means basically that he’ll act with or without Congressional Approval, is clearly seeking political cover, so that he may share blame, or better yet, manage to once again escape any of the accountability for committing U.S. troops to a military operation in which we have no identifiable objective, and consequently no chance for any sort of victory. Listening to a good number of the Republicans in the Senate, and in the House, it would seem that there is a large swath of our side more than willing to kiss canvas here.
By the time this is remembered for the 2014 midterms, it will have been a bipartisan disaster, in which Barack Obama’s hand was forced because of the ill advised council he’d received from John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Boehner. By the time the 2016 Presidential election rolls around, this will have been consigned to history as the McCain-Graham-Boehner war. Just like history granting Richard Nixon the lion’s share of the blame for the war in Viet Nam, conveniently forgetting that it was John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson who gifted that use of military force to our nation, by the time that this one gets retold in the reeducation camps formerly known as public schools, Barack Obama will have tried to keep it from happening at all. He will have fought against the establishment as he always has, while leading our country from behind.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: Arab Spring, Bashar Assad, Syrian War
