Reply #39: It may be too late- if we are already fighting there. [View All]

[bluedawg12]

It seems our governement is on auto pilot while unelected pundits press foreign policy.

>Shouldn't it be the case that if Assad can't police his border, we won't respect it either, since we have to defend ourselves and our Iraqi friends <


I am concerned that we are being lulled into thinking that ****'s low poll numbers and his other problems have somehow stopped the neoconniver agenda. Don't think it has. They are still calling the shots if, as has been pointed out, we are actually in ground combat in Syria.

Te RW hawks have been pushing for this all along and goading us into action.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/736lqpii.asp
Springtime for Dictators?

From the June 27, 2005 issue: America shouldn't reward gross acts of dictatorial oppression or give free passes for the aiders and abettors of tyrants.
by William Kristol

Springtime for Dictators?

>As are the terror facilitators: ... Abu Ibrahim, a Syrian who, with the tacit approbation of his government, has been for months shuttling Saudi money, and Saudi and other jihadists, into Iraq to kill Americans and Iraqis. Yet it seems Syria remains a safe haven for terror sponsors. The Defense Department apparently refused a CIA request to launch an attack on a Syrian terror-sponsoring target within the last two weeks. Shouldn't it be the case that if Assad can't police his border, we won't respect it either, since we have to defend ourselves and our Iraqi friends against jihadists infiltrating Iraq from his territory?

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.... How much pressure have we put on either government? Wasn't it a big mistake of the 1980s and the 1990s not to make the friends and enablers of terror pay a real price for their activities?<