Airstrikes on Syria would turn the U.S. military into “al Qaeda's air force,” former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) told The Hill.
The outspoken anti-war activist said any such action would plunge the United States into another war in the Middle East and embolden Islamist militants fighting Bashar Assad's regime.
“So what, we're about to become Al Qaeda's air force now?” Kucinich said. “This is a very, very serious matter that has broad implications internationally. And to try to minimize it by saying we're just going to have a 'targeted strike' — that's an act of war. It's not anything to be trifled with.”
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Kucinich and I disagree on, well, most things. I think that I can agree with him on this. I don't think we have anything to gain in Syria and if we eliminate the current government we side with al Qaeda.
Has anyone thought that the US soil might turn into a terrorist target of pissed islamists? Fires, poisoned water, bombs, you name it...
How about that, hm?
Has anyone thought that the US soil might turn into a terrorist target of pissed islamists? Fires, poisoned water, bombs, you name it...
How about that, hm?
People, myself included, often speak of how communities here in the US should fight back against gangs destroying them. Well, Syria has been fighting radicalism with an iron fist for decades. Other than not hugging Israel, the Syrian government had been relatively isolationist in relation to ME affairs. The "democracy cures everything" people have no real idea what that place would look like without autocratic rule. It will be an unmitigated disaster if the current government falls. The same Arab Spring that brought down the Egyptian government put people worse in its place. This is not an area that is fertile ground for democracy--not yet, and definitely not all at once.
Has anyone thought that the US soil might turn into a terrorist target of pissed islamists? Fires, poisoned water, bombs, you name it...
How about that, hm?
Has anyone thought that the US soil might turn into a terrorist target of pissed islamists? Fires, poisoned water, bombs, you name it...
How about that, hm?
I don't like knownothing isolationism, but Syria is too complex to get involved in. The last thing we need to do is support jihadists in Syria like Reagan did in Afghanistan, leading as it did to 9-11.
The neocons are, of course, all hot to trot. There never was a military intervention they didn't like. Fortunately, Obama isn't a nitwit like Bush. He's too smart to fall for neocon demagoguery.
I don't like knownothing isolationism, but Syria is too complex to get involved in. The last thing we need to do is support jihadists in Syria like Reagan did in Afghanistan, leading as it did to 9-11.
The neocons are, of course, all hot to trot. There never was a military intervention they didn't like. Fortunately, Obama isn't a nitwit like Bush. He's too smart to fall for neocon demagoguery.
How many times in history do you think people in a nation have been happy with the country dropping bombs on them?
People, myself included, often speak of how communities here in the US should fight back against gangs destroying them. Well, Syria has been fighting radicalism with an iron fist for decades. Other than not hugging Israel, the Syrian government had been relatively isolationist in relation to ME affairs. The "democracy cures everything" people have no real idea what that place would look like without autocratic rule. It will be an unmitigated disaster if the current government falls. The same Arab Spring that brought down the Egyptian government put people worse in its place. This is not an area that is fertile ground for democracy--not yet, and definitely not all at once.
I don't like knownothing isolationism, but Syria is too complex to get involved in. The last thing we need to do is support jihadists in Syria like Reagan did in Afghanistan, leading as it did to 9-11.
The neocons are, of course, all hot to trot. There never was a military intervention they didn't like. Fortunately, Obama isn't a nitwit like Bush. He's too smart to fall for neocon demagoguery.
Yep. A total no brainer. Yet, look at the number of people on this board supporting doing just that. Some people never learn.
"Neocons?" Seems to me it's been the Bidens of the radical left squealing like stuck pigs to ramp up the rhetoric for a strike against Assad. You might want to revisit your spin on recent history...I don't like knownothing isolationism, but Syria is too complex to get involved in. The last thing we need to do is support jihadists in Syria like Reagan did in Afghanistan, leading as it did to 9-11.
The neocons are, of course, all hot to trot. There never was a military intervention they didn't like. Fortunately, Obama isn't a nitwit like Bush. He's too smart to fall for neocon demagoguery.
Has anyone thought that the US soil might turn into a terrorist target of pissed islamists? Fires, poisoned water, bombs, you name it...
How about that, hm?
Not true at all.I don't like knownothing isolationism, but Syria is too complex to get involved in. The last thing we need to do is support jihadists in Syria like Reagan did in Afghanistan, leading as it did to 9-11.
The neocons are, of course, all hot to trot. There never was a military intervention they didn't like. Fortunately, Obama isn't a nitwit like Bush. He's too smart to fall for neocon demagoguery.
Has anyone thought that the US soil might turn into a terrorist target of pissed islamists? Fires, poisoned water, bombs, you name it...
How about that, hm?
"Neocons?" Seems to me it's been the Bidens of the radical left squealing like stuck pigs to ramp up the rhetoric for a strike against Assad. You might want to revisit your spin on recent history...
yeah. Can you imagine how awful it would be if Al Qaeda were to decide that it wanted to strike U.S. targets? :roll:
No capability at this point.I couldn't read your sarcasm, do you mean they haven't the desire to, or haven't the capability?
Well, the correction is warranted, sadly.Yes, clearly this charge is being led by the left at this point. But, the neocons (which by no means represent the entire GOP) are now, and were the first and from the beginning, pressing for military action in Syria.
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