kalisto2010 (21 posts)
Freeper Hypocrisy on Syria
Last edited Sun Sep 1, 2013, 06:11 AM USA/ET - Edit history (2)
Just look at the comments on this thread. They now say the exact opposite now that Obama is in office.
So much stupid, or are you a mole that's just trying too hard?
The decision to go to war is not a partisan tribal loyalty thing, it has to be taken on its own merits each time. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the Administration made a plausible case for our national security interests being involved (Frankly, not an overwhelming case, since it was laced with conjecture and intelligence-community card castles of 'Ifs' that proved to be largely unfounded, and looked a bit dubious to many of us including Conservatives at the time, but it was at least
plausible). In the Yugoslavian Civil War and Clinton's leadership, we pretty much stood by for four years while bloodshed and massacres that equal anything in Syria went on, without seriously lifting a finger about it, until we eventually came in to go through the pockets of the dead and claim some credit for a peace for which we had done almost nothing to bring, because the Clinton administration never felt like making a case that our national security interests were involved in a civil war with unbelievable crimes and atrocities occurring every day on an institutional scale.
How is it that suddenly it IS in our national security interest to intervene on the side of instability, and destabilize what has been a relatively uneventful 40-year armed stand-off between a secular despot and our only long-term ally in the region? Beyond the idea of just backing up Obama's ill-considered 'Red line' talk, that is? Frankly, pouring in resources to reinforce bad decisions is normally considered a cardinal error in the military/security arena.
Of course if one is wearing the uniform, either on active duty or as a Reservist who may be mobilized, there is a fundamental obligation to shut up and follow lawful orders once the decision is made. That primary duty of accomplishing the assigned mission and bend every effort to making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, no matter how stupid or ill-founded the underlying strategy may be, should not be confused with endorsing stupidity.
