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| The Obama Imperium |
| 2013-09-02 |
| This is a rebuttal to Steve White's editorial last Saturday. By Chris Covert Rantburg.com What does the 1986 air raid in Libya, the 1991 Desert Storm battle and the 2003 Liberation of Iraq have in common? Obviously those are all military operations in which the United States had a hand and at least the veneer of justification. Not only that, but somewhere in the justification for launching military operation, an American nexus was apparent. If President Barak Obama gives the go, US military forces will launch a brief aerial bombing campaign in Syria against soft military targets not because of any strategic imperative, nor because US interests would be advanced, but because a liberal president drew a "red line" and must back up US credibility. Some entity in Syria possibly the dictatorial government of Bashir Assad launched a chemical attack that has killed around 1,400 individuals. United States UN ambassador Samantha Powers tweeted Saturday morning that among the dead were 426 children who died without, in her words, "a scratch, shrapnel wound, cut, nor gunshot wound..." The missing irony of those unfortunate choice of words is that at least as many children in the Syrian Civil War have been killed by both sides by shrapnel, bullets and rubble. Typical with today's western liberal that the lives of "our children", is more valuable and worthy of outrage than the other 1,000 dead who were not children. Children dying in war is certainly horrible but in a conflict in which children have been dying for the last two years, the one thing most notable in this attack is the chemical weapons used. But liberals will use the dead bodies of children like a bloody shirt to goad a feckless American leader into launching an airstrike against Syria. And as I have read elsewhere liberals are threatening to use Congressional refusal to intervene as a campaign issue in 2014. It isn't the first time our left has used dead children as a prop for a policy goal, and it won't be the last, but they can't hide the fact that the children who died were not American children. They were not even the children of any ally, but the children of a people who are the sworn enemy of Israel, which is -- last time I checked -- still an ally of the United States. I won't make at this point dire predictions about what could happen following an airstrike against Syria. The possible scenarios that could happen could well be the same should Obama not hit Syria. Whatever entity in Syria which launched the chemical attack may well be planning a second attack already regardless of whether Syria is attacked, and it is just as likely the chemical attacker already shot his bolt. No more funny gas. Regardless, unless Bashir Assad or the Syrian opposition wakes up and decides that coming to the negotiation table is preferable to the bloodletting that has gone on in the last two years, the bloodletting will go on, US airstrike or not. Nothing will change. Children will die only next time, we won't see photos of grieving families. We will see nothing. The left will be plotting to line up their next policy goal looking desperately for photos of more dead children to advance their agenda. The decision to go to war is a shared decision, but as I have said elsewhere the War Powers Act allows a US chief executive to launch a military strike anywhere and at any time of his own choosing. His only constraint is that he has to come to Congress before 90 days are up to seek approval, and by that time, the US Navy fleet gathering in the eastern Mediterranean Sea will have been dispersed to other missions. Probably. We are in the fifth year of the reign of a president who has offered very few good ideas and a whole slate of bad ones. The proposed airstrike against Syria is but another of a long line of bad ideas. But that is how Obama and his supporters in the medea and elsewhere are. He can't help himself. Bad ideas flow from him like effluent into Lake Michigan. It is Obama's imperium. Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com His latest work of non-fiction, The Wounded Eagle: Volume 2 went on sale yesterday at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Probably just a lot of orders given and orders taken. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-09-02 20:04 |
| #3 So, how much would you pay to listen to O/Puti private conversation at G20? Who's buying? |
| Posted by: badanov 2013-09-02 17:02 |
| #2 So, how much would you pay to listen to O/Puti private conversation at G20? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-09-02 16:58 |
| #1 Permission? Who needs permission? Do you think that "GOD" himself needs permission? Well I DON'T I'm GOD, you peons know of course? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-09-02 14:33 |