In FrontPage this morning I explain why what now appears to be inevitable is nonetheless so unwise. A Senate panel has voted to authorize Barack Obama to use military force in Syria. This is a disaster in the making. Just as in Afghanistan, Obama has no goal, no plan for victory. He said that the […]
Kerry: Sunni Muslim countries offered to pay us to fight for al-Qaeda against Assad
U.S. troops: paid mercenaries for al-Qaeda. If these Muslim countries are going to foot the bill, why don’t they send their own troops? “Kerry: Arab countries offered to pay for invasion,” from the Washington Post, September 4: Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday”s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the […]
We’re going to war for al-Qaeda: Senate panel approves resolution giving Obama authority to use military force in Syria
The disasters and horrors that this will usher in will be incalculable. Pamela Geller has the details of this breaking story: Now we are fighting al qaeda’s war. Unbelievable. BREAKING: Senate panel approves resolution giving Obama authority to use military force against Syria This could not have happened without RINO support: On Tuesday, some Republicans, […]
Ted Cruz: U.S. not “Al Qaeda’s air force”
One voice of sanity on Capitol Hill. “Ted Cruz: U.S. not ‘Al Qaeda’s air force,– by Tal Kopan for Politico, September 4: Sen. Ted Cruz called President Barack Obama’s efforts to authorize military intervention in Syria a public relations move, saying the U.S. military shouldn’t be “Al Qaeda’s air force.” The Texas Republican said Tuesday […]
Obama admits: “We may not be directly imminently threatened by what’s taking place” in Syria
But if we don’t go in, unspecified terrible things will happen to us later: “We may not be directly imminently threatened by what’s taking place in a Kosovo or a Syria or a Rwanda in the short-term but our long-term national security will be impacted in a profound way and our humanity’s impacted in a […]
Obama on Syria: “My credibility is not on the line. The international community”s credibility is on the line.”
And “I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line.” How can he say these things with a straight face when the world (with the exception of always stout-hearted France) is not with him? “President Obama: America’s credibility on the line in Syria,” by Jennifer Epstein for Politico, September 4 (thanks to […]
U.S. hasn’t armed Syrian rebels because no one can figure out how to keep the weapons from falling into hands of jihadists
This article sums up the madness of U.S. military intervention in Syria. “U.S. Still Hasn’t Armed Syrian Rebels,” by Adam Entous and Nour Malas in the Wall Street Journal, September 2: In June, the White House authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to help arm moderate fighters battling the Assad regime, a signal to Syrian rebels […]
What we need right now is another Lincoln
Not the Civil War Lincoln. The Mexican War Lincoln. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was a 38-year-old Congressman from Illinois. On December 22, 1847, as the Mexican War was raging, Lincoln offered in the House what came to be known as the Spot Resolutions, asking President James K. Polk to provide evidence for his claims that […]
Kerry: U.S. troops may be deployed to aid al-Qaeda in Syria
“Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of” — New York Times, April 28, 2013 Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda — USA Today, April 11, 2013 “Kerry leaves door open to boots on the ground,” from the Washington Post, September 3 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): Asked about the possibility […]
Clinton’s State Department was told Benghazi was a terror attack just minutes after it began
Yet to try to save Obama’s foreign policy from looking like the spectacular failure that it is, they went out and lied about this for days, claiming it was all about the Muhammad video — an oblique attack on our freedom of speech. “Book: Clinton’s State told Benghazi was a ‘terrorist attack’ minutes after it […]