Can you guess who is doing the jaw flapping? Let me help…..after Obama siad at a press conference…”we don’t have a strategy yet”…..I expected the media and the GOP to jump all over the statement…..and I did not have to wait long…….the usual loud mouth suspects were there right on time….yep, the idiots of foreign policy…..McCain and Graham………
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham say they’re appalled that President Obama’s response to threat posed by the Islamic State is to say, “We don’t have have a strategy yet.” He needs to get one fast, they write in the New York Times. Putting a dent in ISIS’s finances would be great, and political progress in Iraq and Syria would surely help, “but ultimately, ISIS is a military force, and it must be confronted militarily,” they write. For starters, we must get more arms and intelligence to groups such as the Kurds who are fighting ISIS. Let them and other allies be our “boots on the ground.”
But the US should also embed “special forces and advisers with our partners on the ground—not to engage in combat, but to help our partners fight ISIS and direct airstrikes against it,” they write. This isn’t about nation-building, they insist. The White House should look to the model of “Afghanistan in 2001, where limited numbers of advisers helped local forces, with airstrikes and military aid, to rout an extremist army.” It’s time for Obama to adopt a strategy and make his case to Congress and the American people, say the senators. “If he does, he deserves bipartisan support. If he does not, ISIS will continue to grow into an even graver danger to our allies and to us.” Click for their full column.
This just what I would expect from a former jet jockey……you might want to know why I seem to not care for pilots too much and it is a fair question……..jet jockeys get to fly around drop their load then return to base for a shower and a hot meal…….whereas the grunt is there all the time and without a good shower or a hot meal……lmy point is that McCain is so quick to send troops to do our bidding is because he has never had to look the enemy in the eye to dispatch them….he gets to do it from 10,000 feet……makes a world of difference in your attitude when you have to live with the horrors every day…..okay, someone is going to jump down my throat about him being s POW…..he survived and probably has some residual scars….but that does not give him the mortal fiber to order troops to their deaths.
Their piece, their op-ed, was NOTHING but the GOP talking as much advantage as they can from Obama’s statement. I would not trust either of them to watch my pet snake…….they are opportunists not statesmen.
Have a great Labor Day everyone!
Just one time I would love to see one of these so called journalist who are interviewing McCain or Graham, or any other member of Congress, ask the only logical follow up question to their hawkish rhetoric; “Senator are you and your colleagues prepared to vote for a war resolution to give the president the authority to go to war in Syria. because last year when he came to congress they were about to vote it down?” What drives me nuts about this whole ”we don’t have a strategy yet” comment is that everyone is being so disingenuous about what the comment was in response to. It is not a surprise that Republicans would jump all over it because they will take anything out of its context just to score political points. But it is the journalists who are parroting the Republican talking points that should be chastised. The comment was in response to Chuck Todd’s question about going to Congress for authorization to expand air strikes into Syria. Obama said that he didn’t have a strategy yet on what he would ask congress to authorize on action in Syria. It is apparent from almost everyone’s reaction to Obama’s comment that the Bush-Cheney mentality of bomb first, send in the troops, and we will figure out the rest later is
the dominate attitude in the media and congress. Of course these would be the exact same people who will criticize Obama for helping Assad if Obama did take unilateral action to bomb ISIS in Syria. And lets not forget, a few years ago McCain and Graham were demanding that we arm the rebels against Assad. If they had their way ISIS would have even more American made weapons. Plus it was John McCain who went behind the back of the Obama administration and meet wit the Saudi’s (Bandar Bush) and encouraged them to fund the Syrian rebels. The Saudi’s and the Qatar are the major funders of ISIS a McCain is up to his eyeballs in that scheme.
Daniel….I am wondering if he gets a bonus every time he mentions using troops…..he makes me sick after all he went through and still thinks putting Americans in that situation is a good idea…..
Probably, we need to see what his stock portfolio looks like.
Halliburton, KBR and GE no doubt….