Let’s check
in on how the candidates in the Republican primary are reacting to the tragedy
in France.
ü Using it to attack gun control
measures anywhere in the world.ü Using it to stir up anti-immigrant sentiment everywhere in the world.
ü Trying to convince us that all two billion or so Muslims in the world are our enemies.
ü Blaming it on Obama.
ü Blaming it on Hillary.
ü Strongly implying that it will happen here if a Democrat is elected president.
ü Advocating for war against somebody, anybody.
ü Basically attempting to use it to their personal advantage instead of expressing any sincere regret and honest offers of support.
Business as
usual for modern-day Republicans: trying
their best to convince us that the world is out to get us and only they can
protect us from it. It wasn’t always like
this. But the days when there were some
moderate, sensible, rational Republicans are gone, and it appears they’re not
coming back.
I’m old
enough to remember when Republicans were generally reluctant to send American
troops abroad. Now that’s hard to imagine. Now they love to threaten war. They seem to think it makes them appear tough. Kind of like the weird little guy in the
neighborhood who owns a pit bull.
If Republican
politicians actually had to fight wars themselves, I suspect their attitude
might be different, but that’s not the case.
Since most of the boots on the ground will be on the feet of individuals
from the lower economic ranks, it’s a win-win from their point of view. Fewer
takers means more for the makers.
Never mind
that a nation can only truly go to war with another nation, not with a collection
of individuals living in different countries among civilian populations, and
that to effectively fight ISIS (or ISIL if you prefer) will require a long-term
strategy of international cooperation, intelligence gathering and analysis, and
judicious and often covert use of military and quasi-military force.
Much easier
to go to war with somebody. It’s the
epitome of Republican public policy: ineffective, counter-productive, wasteful,
expensive, they and their friends can make money from it, and they can get away
with not paying for it.
There are no morals more
relative than conservative morals, and no hypocrisy quite like conservative
hypocrisy.
I must agree that ISIS can be blamed on Obama who intervened in both Libya and Syria with disastrous results. He learned nothing from Bush it seems who intervened in Iraq and Afghanistan with likewise disastrous results. Leading to the following which is alost sad:ISIS driving around in USA supplied cars(supplied to the "moderate jihadists" who joined ISIS after they took over the oilfields in Iraq and started bribing them. Training a mercenary army to fight a dictator? not a smart move on part of Obama.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/the-u-s-government-supplied-isis-iconic-pickup-trucks.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-16/total-failure-pentagon-spends-41-million-training-four-or-five-syrian-fighters
Obamas foreign policy has been a complete failure, you must admit. and Obamacare is already cracking and is probably also doomed to fail. Obama will be seen as a failed president 100 years from now.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-30/obamacare-disaster-co-op-insurers-across-america-are-collapsing-and-now-there-fraud
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-15/meet-family-just-spent-half-its-annual-income-paying-obamacare
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-21/us-congresswoman-introduces-bill-stop-illegal-war-assad-says-cia-ops-must-stop
So it takes a Nobel Peace Prize to start an illegal war.
It makes sense that Obamacare would fail, when you do nothing to stop the price gouging and at the same time give more power to big pharma through TPP and TTIP the system will be easily gamed by corporate monopolies. sad for sick ppl.
DeleteI mean ppl are afraid that jihadists will pretend to be syrian refugees. Was the Obama administration that stupid to assume jihadists could not pretend to be moderates? then Obama may have inadvertently trained ISIS members in military warfare.
DeletePresident Obama has done his best to provide middle and working class people in this country with health insurance in the face of Republican opposition. Republicans live to fight anything that helps the non-rich in this country, then criticize Democrats for creating programs that don't succeed. And many middle and working class individuals keep them in office so they can do it. Now that's sad.
ReplyDeleteDo you think jihadist might pretend to be moderates in order to get training and resources? If so, then assume that President Obama and everyone in his administration thought of it also and took steps to prevent it.
I think deep down Republicans know how stupid their party leaders are which makes them distrustful of any one else's ideas. They can't help themselves. It's sad.
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