U.S. likes to periodically rotate dictators
By Ron Hart – JWR
President Obama bowed up last year and said he had a “red line” he would not allow Syria to cross. As a result, and with his massive ego at stake, he feels he has to do something he never does: back up his rhetoric with action.
The Obama regime knows only one way to wage war, and that is to run attack ads in Iowa, destroying an opponent’s character. Trying to wage war by invading a country over WMDs has pitted President Obama against his fiercest ideological opponent on the matter, Candidate Obama.
So, our war-waging-invading machine has been dispatched to the Middle East to extract a pound of flesh from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for probably gassing his opposition. No penalties yet on this administration sending the IRS to attack Obama’s opposition.
We can’t bomb Syria to the point that Assad is displaced; then al-Qaida religious extremists could take over, like the Muslim Brotherhood did in Egypt. Instead of cruise missiles and “shock and awe,” Obama might order the Pentagon to spank them with a rolled-up newspaper or spray them with water from a squirt bottle.
As a libertarian who likes to mind his own business, I am not a fan of traipsing across the world and starting a war when we are not directly threatened. It’s costly, ineffective and creates enemies. This gas attack could have been perpetrated by the Syrian rebels Obama is backing, in order to induce the U.S. into putting a hurt on their enemy, President Assad. My trust in government is at an all-time low.
If we go to war with Syria, it will be just a proxy war against Syria’s allies, Iran-backed Hezbollah factions in Syria, and Russia. Vladimir (“Macho Bravado”) Putin likes to go around bare-chested. As any Southerner will tell you, you do not want to fight a redneck who takes off his shirt. There’s no upside.
World War I started after a confusing set of circumstances unfolded: long-standing tensions, militarism, botched diplomacy and the assassination in 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a Serbian nationalist. A “comedy” of errors, convoluted alliances and aggressions escalated us into another war.
This one feels like that one. I say we lay low, and I think a war-weary country agrees. On the plus side, this is our third war in the Mideast, so the next one is free.
London newspapers say the administration is mum on the Benghazi attacks because the CIA was covertly supplying military arms from there to rebels with the “Syrian Alliance.” If you do not know much about these rebels we are supplying, stay tuned. We will be at war with them in about two years. At least we will be able to know what weapons they will be using, by checking our invoices.
The U.S. government likes to rotate its dictators every few years, like crops. Removing a strong-arm leader who keeps order is like firing a great bouncer at a biker bar. A thugocracy often works well to keep order in Third World hellholes.
The other choice is a theocracy, and a Muslim theocracy is worse for us. Muslims let a few, out-of-touch religious zealots elect the leaders for their nation. Then, those leaders seek to force their interpretation of antiquated religious doctrines into law. It’s the same thing Republicans do with the Iowa primary.
Opposition forces linked to al-Qaida took over oil wells and declared a Shariah state in their part of Syria. Now they are oil speculators, capitalists who control their own state government. I say we let things take their natural course, as they are about two business cycles away from joining a country club and encouraging their daughters to pledge Chi Omega.
Obama, with the debacle of Iraq hanging over him, and after he said he was going to bomb Syria, saw Great Britain bail on him. Now, Obama suddenly wants to work with Congress to put them on the record. This president is not about leadership, he is about blame. Instead of nuclear codes carried by a general, Obama is followed around by David Axelrod, carrying a briefcase that contains codes for whom to blame for scandals.
Obama should avoid this complex attack, but I am afraid that he has decided to go ahead. If it turns out to be a mess, Obama has already asked Susan Rice pick out a few anti-Muslim videos to blame for the debacle.
