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Essential VDH: Syria is not a winning issue for 2012

by Phantom Ace ( 2 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Elections 2012, Headlines, Hezballah, Iran, Islamists, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Mitt Romney, Muslim Brotherhood, Syria at June 5th, 2012 - 2:16 pm

For reasons known only to him, Mitt Romney has called for invading Syria. This contradicts his message that he is focused on the economy. An invasion and occupation of Syria will tank the markets, drive up the debt and bring back Democrats to power. The anti-Jihad wing of the Right will permanently split, thus make it impossible for a united Center-Right to ever win an election. The majority of Americans are against intervention. This is not a winning campaign issue.

Victor Davis Hanson clearly realizes that a war in Syria is a waste of time and will make things worse. He warns Romney and the GOP that this is not a winning issue.

But in the case of Syria, the obvious advantages of seeing an end to Assad — offering freedom to the populace, stopping the government killing of its own, ending Syria’s corruption of Lebanon, disrupting the Iran/Hezbollah/Syria nexus — are for now certainly outweighed by a number of factors:

1) We have no reason to believe that minorities will be any better off in the chaos to come.

2) We do not know the composition of the opposition, but can reasonably assume from other recent revolutions that there will be a likelihood of seeing one election one time, in the Gaza model that brings in Islamists.

3) We cannot point to postbellum violence and chaos in Libya as any sort of model.

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Finally, at a time of record budget deficits, 40 months of 8-plus percent unemployment, weak economic growth, defense cuts, and the war in Afghanistan, there is very little, if any, public support for intervening in some manner in Syria. In political terms, there are lots of areas — reset with Russia, distance from Israel, strained relationships with allies, cold/hot/cold attitudes toward the war in Afghanistan — where the Obama administration projects weakness and invites foreign adventurism, but caution in Syria is not an issue that the Romney campaign should use against the president.

Mitt Romney should heed Victor Davis Hanson’s advise. Syria is pissing match between Iran/Assad/Hizb’Allah vs. The Muslim Brotherhood/Al-Qaeda. This is a gang street fight and one which we should avoid getting involved. America needs peace and prosperity, not more wars and nation building. The peopel don’t wnat it and we can not afford it.

Andrew McCarthy warns Romney over Syria

by Phantom Ace ( 198 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Mitt Romney, Muslim Brotherhood, Progressives, Republican Party, Theocratic Progressives at June 3rd, 2012 - 12:00 pm

As much as I am impressed with Mitt Romney’s gloves off campaign with the American Pharaoh, there is one thing that irks me. For some reason, to appear tougher than Obama, Mitt Romney wants to invade and install an Islamist regime in Syria. I am no fan of the Assad regime, but the Muslim Brotherhood is not a better alternative. The Syrian war is Iran/Hizb’Allah/Assad Regime vs. Muslim Brotherhood/Al-Qaeda fighting out. Both sides are enemies of the US. Under normal circumstances we would sit by and let them destroy each other. Unfortunately there is a transnationalist Wilsonian Progressive clique that controls the foreign policy of both parties.

Mitt Romney is listening to the Tranzis who want to install another Islamic regime with American treasure and blood. The majority of Americans don’t want intervention in Syria, yet Romney is pushing this. Andrew McCarthy, who has taken on the Tranzi Pro-Islamist Wing of the GOP warns Mitt. He writes that there will be no good result for American intervention in Syria.

Congratulations to Mitt Romney. In calling for “opposition groups” to be armed and trained for their ongoing jihad against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the GOP’s presidential contender has managed to align himself with al-Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri and Muslim Brotherhood icon Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Like the legacy media, the McCain wing of the Republican party, and the rest of Washington’s progressive, Islamophilic clerisy, Governor Romney is reacting to a regime-engineered massacre last week. Assad’s forces reportedly killed 108 Syrians in Houla, a rural enclave outside the “opposition” city of Homs. Victims included women and children shot at close range, in summary-execution style.

 Yes, Assad’s minority Alawite Muslim regime is a key ally of Iran’s revolutionary Shiite-supremacist government. That does not alter the stubborn fact that the anti-Assad “opposition groups” are dominated by Sunni supremacists. Stubborn facts cannot be evaded by clever labeling — “opposition groups” in Syria having become the euphemism du jour that “rebels” was in Libya, “peaceful protesters” in Egypt, “uprisings” in Tunisia, and so on. 
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The Muslim Brotherhood, leader of the Sunni supremacists, has a hammer-lock on the Syrian National Council (SNC), the main opposition group the Obama administration has been courting — with the McCain wing cheering from the sidelines. Meanwhile, as trumpeted on the Brotherhood’s website, Sheikh Qaradawi has been organizing Syria’s Islamist revolt for months, reprising the starring role he is playing in Egypt. Al-Qaeda — whose help the Brotherhood is happy to have when it is expedient, as it was in Libya — put its muscle into the Syrian revolt months ago.

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Washington can idealize the Syrian “opposition” into liberty-loving freedom-fighters; to Syrian Christians, they are the jihad. With churches being torched, families being terrorized by kidnappings and murders, and thousands of believers being put to flight

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What Obama has been smart enough to do, at least to this point, is refrain from direct military aid, undoubtedly realizing that he would be blamed when, inevitably, it became clear that American arms went to America’s enemies. But McCain and the Brotherhood goaded the president into using force in Libya — where the victorious “rebels” quickly installed sharia law and parceled out Qaddafi’s arsenal to Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda. Another misadventure in Syria, it seems, is only a matter of time.

In their anxiety over our nation’s future, conservatives see the upcoming November election as a make-or-break crossroads. Thus, the Right’s indifference to Mitt Romney, the only alternative to Obama’s reelection, is striking. But it is not bewildering, and stories like Syria’s go a long way toward explaining it. Desperation to avoid the third Carter term does not translate into enthusiasm over the specter of the third Bush administration.

Andrew McCarthy once again exposes the Islamist sympathies of Bi-Partisan elites in Washington. Once again the elites from the comfort of their homes want to send Americans to die in another war for Islamic Democracy. After 11 years of nation building, Americans in both parties have had enough. Mitt Romney has a golden opportunity to stand up to the Tranzi Progressive Wing of the GOP. Instead he is spouting their Pro Muslim Brotherhood  rhetoric.

If Mitt Romney wants a successful Presidency, besides governing as an economic/fiscal Conservative, he needs to stay out of Syria. Many Conservatives have learned the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. If Romney goes to war in Syria, his Presidency will be toast.

Americans are tired of Dhimmitude to Islamic interests!

The US support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

by Phantom Ace ( 1 Comment › )
Filed under Egypt, Headlines, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood at May 1st, 2012 - 12:45 pm

Before people begin Obama bashing, keep in mind that Republicans like John McCain, Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney are culpable in this. The United States is openly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Jihadists in Syria. This help will come back to haunt us, for as despicable as the Assad regime is, the Muslim Brotherhood is not an improvement. Giving them control of another country is madness, yet the Democratic and Republican Parties are actively supporting this!

While the Obama administration’s burgeoning contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt continue to cause controversy, the administration’s policy of growing cooperation with the Syrian opposition continues to enjoy almost unanimous support. This is remarkable, since by virtue of that policy the administration is openly allied with none other than the Muslim Brotherhood: that is, openly, but with perhaps just enough misdirection for the alliance to escape the notice of the broader public.

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But who is the Syrian National Council? Although the chairman and most recognizable face of the council is the secular Paris-based political scientist Burhan Ghalioun, it is openly acknowledged that the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood is a major force within the council. In fact, there is strong evidence that it is the major force. When several members of the council resigned in mid-March, they cited the overwhelming influence of the Brotherhood as a reason for their decision. “The Brotherhood took the whole council,” departing council member Walid al-Bunni told the New York Times. “We became like extras.”

The Belgian Syria expert Thomas Pierret, a lecturer in contemporary Islam at the University of Edinburgh, estimates that “around half” of the SNC’s members are Islamists. According to Pierret, moreover, the Muslim Brotherhood controls the council’s “commission on humanitarian aid” and thereby the distribution of SNC funds in Syria. As a consequence of the repression of the organization by the Syrian regime, the leadership of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has been living in exile for decades. Pierret notes that the Brotherhood now stands accused of using its control over the SNC aid spigot in order to reconstruct a base of popular support within the country.

This is a nation disgrace. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are criminal for supporting this gang of thugs.