What happens in Syria.....if?

So Obama is determined to punish Bashar al-Assad come hell or high water. Fine, but has he or anybody in the administration thought this through? Here are a few what if's to consider before we insert ourselves into the Syrian civil war.....

-what if after we drop a Tomahawk into Syria, Iran follows through on her threat to drop some Scuds on Israel? Do we retaliate against Iran?

-what if Israel decides to not wait for Iran to attack and bombs all Iran's nuclear sites with devastating ordinance, killing thousands?

-what if Russia, Syria's strongest, long-time ally, decides to defend Syria and jumps into the action?

-what if any other Arab nations attack Israel to punish the US for sticking our nose into Assad's business?

-what do we do after bombing Syria? Just blithely sail away? What will have been accomplished by doing that? Even symbolically?

Doing anything in Syria at this point makes no sense.

Liberals argue that not punishing Assad, even symbolically, gives tacit permission for other countries to use chemical weapons, but that is wrong. Not bombing Syria in no way prevents us from punishing other users of chemical weapons. How does it, if that's your argument?

Putin and Obama contemplate WWIII

I can't recall a time in my life when US and Russian military assets were in as close proximity, and on opposing sides of a conflict, as they are in the eastern Mediterranean now. Syria is one of Russia's oldest middle east allies and Bashar al-Assad is probably guilty of numerous human-right violations. Combine that with US presidents fancying themselves the world's policemen, righting wrongs around the globe when nobody else will, and place them together in the world's hottest combat zone and that my friends is a recipe for heap big trouble.

Vlad. Putin promised today when Obama visited him in Russia that he would support Syria if the US attacked their friend Assad, but Obama has promised that he would punish Assad one way or the other for using chemical weapons.....so what's likely to happen?

Not to be alarmist, and I don't think this will happen, but a situation like this could easily spiral out of control and the US end up going toe to toe with Russia and Iran combined. If even a limited engagement took place between the US and Russia, there would be world wide chaos.

Americans instinctively know this. That's why 3 out of 4 of us demand that we NOT attack Syria with even a symbolic strike. What would that accomplish any way?

Obama goes off the rails

Obama has gone completely off the rails. In Sweden today, he tried to say with a straight face that he never set a "red line" threshold for chemical weapons in Syria, but is he not aware of recent advancements in modern audio/visual recording equipment?

This is Obama from just last year, from FoxNation -- “We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus,” Obama said. “That would change my equation. . . . We’re monitoring that situation very carefully. We have put together a range of contingency plans.”

Sounds like a "red line" ultimatum to me. We might be witnessing the collapse of a modern presidency that has been propped up by the fawning media. But even the media cannot ignore obvious conflicts like this. 

I will gladly kill you tomorrow with weapons you give me today

The "strategy" of arming those who will eventually turn those arms against you should heretofore be known as the Wimpy Doctrine, from the Popeye cartoon.

In their meeting this weekend John McCain and Obama agreed to send new weaponry to the largest rebel group in Syria to help them fight Assad's army.

This is sheer folly and stupidity. These weapons will be used against US personnel sooner or later.....it always is. We don't even know the political make-up of the various rebel groups. Are they Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hezbollah, Brotherhood? Who knows? McCain certainly didn't which from which when he posed for a picture with Taliban fighters thinking they were pro-American rebel forces.

And what happens if and when we depose Bashar Assad? Has anybody thought that far? Apparently Obama, McCain, Lindsay, or Boehner. haven't either.

McCain and Graham....full-speed ahead war-hawks

This is why these two clowns need to be primaried in their next elections. RINO sen's McCain and Graham met with Obama over the weekend to discuss Syria. Both advise that any congressional vote against Obama at this point would be politically disastrous for the US, both agree that regime change in Syria is the only feasible strategy, and both criticized any Americans who dare disagree with them.

Syria already has military backing from Russia, Iran, and China. There are sophisticated, Russian air-defense networks peppered all over Syria manned by actual Russians. There is at least one Russian destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean alongside our 5 war ships. And Israel is staging missile tests out there. Is this really the time to be toppling, strictly on humanitarian grounds, a regime whose replacement might be worse than he is?

Obama stupidly painted himself into this corner with his rhetoric. This is what we get for allowing the media to install into the white house an inexperienced community agitator for no reason other than he's a black guy. He doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

Obama wants to bomb Syria, but has no targets

Obama is mulling the bombing of Syria with cruise missiles and long-range bombers? Bomb what? At what will he aim the cruise missiles? What're the targets? 

Assad isn't in his palace. The chemicals, if there are any, are hidden in civilian areas. The command-and-control infrastructure is primitive and diffused...i.e., worthless for targeting from the air. That jackass Karl Rove advised last night on Greta that we should take out his air force, but Assad isn't using his air force against the people. That will accomplish nothing. 

How many Syrian civilians will be killed by American bombs? I'll wager far more than those killed by the chemicals supposedly used by Assad to begin with. This will be a political sortie to appease Obama's critics who say he's a war dove and to ease the queasiness of the American media that find it unpleasant to see images of chemicals in war from their comfy couches in Georgetown. 

Nothing good can come from our involvement in Syria. We need to sit this one out and let Europe deal with it.

Re: Syria. The US should sit this one out

What is Obama's plan for Syria? Do whatever the UN tells him to do?

US/Syria options:
-drone strikes on selected targets where we think chemical weapons are stored
-problem: that's the US acting unilaterally against yet another Arab nation and they certainly have their weapons scattered and hidden all over the place.

-wait for UN inspectors to mess around for 6 months, then be the muscle in whatever solution the UN imagines will stop the killing.
-problem: if Bashar Assad doesn't want his chemical weapons found, they won't be found. it'll be the Saddam Hussein run-around all over again.

-institute a no-fly zone like John McCain advised to keep the lid on the Assad regime.
-problem: Assad isn't using his air force to deliver chemicals, he's using artillery.

-put US troops in Syria to keep distance between the Assad loyalists and the rebels.
-problem: Iran will, or has already, put her troops in Syria. Do we really want to get into a shooting war with Iran who is backed by Russia and China?

-Obama can pen a strongly worded letter to Assad demanding that he stop using chemical weapons. That should do it.
-problem: Nobody, anywhere in the world respects Obama or the Americans any more. They see us a weak and unmotivated, and on this issue, we should be unmotivated to do anything. It's not our job.

In short, there are no good options for the US in Syria. The UN has plenty of European countries who have militaries that can go be targets for snipers and terrorists in Syria. The US should sit this one out.

Media blames video games for violence, never horrible parenting

Police are investigating a murder in which an 8 year old shot his 87 year old grandmother in the head in Slaughter, La.

It is thought that he shot her immediately after playing Grand Theft Auto. Predictably parents' groups are in a snit over the violence of video games causing kids to act violently. But why aren't these groups upset about the horrible parenting required for a kid to have access to 1, a gun, and 2, the rated "M" for mature video game in the first place?

Millions of adults enjoy the GTA series and don't go out and kill people. Millions of adults safely own firearms in the home with children and they don't kill each other with them. This is a bad parenting story, not a violent video game causes violent behavior story.

Another victim of Hope-and-Change

My God, do we have to read about this outrage every day now?

This is WWII vet, 88 year old Delbert Belton. He survived the savagery of war at Okinawa, but not feral black youths in a parking lot in his home town of Spokane. For no apparent reason other than race, brutal savagery, and fun, two black teens beat Mr. Belton and left him for dead. He died later in the hospital.

Given the preposterous election of Barack Obama with his abiding hatred of white people, and the utter recklessness with which he whipped black people into a frenzy over Trayvon Martin, even a public-school graduate could have predicted a black jihad against whites would be the result.

If you don't have a concealed/carry permit, get one today and arm yourself. Don't be a victim of Hope-and-Change.

Blacks now killing whites out of sheer boredom

The rampage of black-on-white crime in America continues unabated, this time in Duncan, OK. Australian college student Chris Lane and his girl-friend were jogging when these three model citizens shot him in the back, drive-by style, because, as they admitted to police, they were bored. The animal they slaughtered earlier that day didn't give them enough of a thrill. 

Chris, attending college on a baseball scholarship, is dead and his girl-friend and her family are heartbroken.

Still no word from the white house on which of these upstanding youths Obama's son would look like, if he had one, but I'm confident spokes-liar Jay Carney will tell us any day now. And I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the Rev's Sharpton and Jackson haven't already been selling T-shirts reading, "I am Chris Lane". 

You think there isn't racism in America? The blacks who hate whites are coming out of the wood work to prove you wrong.