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I read a report today that summed it up best. If we disposed of the current regime in Syria, there would be a major power vacuum, much like there was in Iraq, and we would not like who would most likely come to power.
Then we take the next dictator out. And the next one and the next one untl the Syrian people and the world community "likes" who is in power. Set up elections. This should be WORLD effort not an American effort. But only if the Syrian people demand it. Otherwise they should be left to their own devices.
is syria any of our business? Is whats happening there any of our business?
Why doesnt anyone want China to do something about it? Or russia?
None of our business......
Top Democrat on House Middle East subcommittee calls Obama's policy a "colossal moral failure"
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Originally Posted by At_Last_2009
Should Obama Do More About Syria's killing their own people?
The highest ranking Democrat blasts Obama's policy on Syria and urges a series of NON-MILITARY actions that the US can take to help the brave democrats of Syria: "I have tried to explain our policy to Syrian-Americans, almost trembling with anxiety for their relatives, and I have failed, principally, I think, because our policy is so completely incoherent. Somehow, it manages to combine colossal moral failure and unimaginable strategic imbecility with the overpowering stench of hypocrisy, thanks to our feckless intervention in Libya. Congratulations gentlemen, you’ve hit the policy failure tri-fecta. History will record not only how we mostly ignored the people of Syria in their hour of need, but worse, how we overlooked our own blindingly obvious national interests in the demise of the Assad regime. Virtually every single interest we have in the Middle East, whether it’s aiding Israel’s search for peace and security, protecting Lebanon’s sovereignty, preventing Iranian hegemony, undercutting Hezbollah and Hamas, nurturing Iraq’s development, sustaining our partnership with Turkey, or just promoting democracy and human rights, is—dramatically, even exponentially—furthered by the Syrian people getting rid of the Assad regime. And to be very clear, I am not, NOT, calling for U.S. military intervention in Syria. It is both unwise and unnecessary. But there is considerably more that we can and must do. First, and above all, the President must call for Bashar al-Assad, that blood-soaked dictator, to step down. Trifling with the lives of the people of Syria with nuanced, lawyerly phrases like ‘President Assad must understand that he is not indispensible’ is shameful. Noting that Assad has ‘lost legitimacy’ without calling for his immediate departure from power trivializes the deaths of thousands of Syrians killed by Assad’s thugs. And, most importantly, between the Syria Accountability Act and the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, the President has at his disposal massive economic and political powers of coercion and punishment. The Obama Administration has barely even scratched the surface of their utility in aiding the people of Syria in throwing off this regime of murderers, thieves and torturers of children. All bilateral trade with Syria should end—immediately. All Syrian banks should be barred from the U.S. financial system—immediately. All Syrian regime assets in the United States should be frozen—immediately. All official Syrian travel to the United States should cease—immediately. We must act." Congressman Gary Ackerman : Statements & Remarks : Ackerman Statement from Subcommittee Hearing "Axis of Abuse: U.S. Human Rights Policy Toward Iran and Syria"
No, but we should have done more with Syria and ignored Libya. Syria at least is a recent state sponsor of terror and a thorn in our side in middle eastern politics.
The best thing America can do with middle eastern politics? ****
Hell no, we have enough on our plate overseas as it is now....
The over seas plate should be retired.
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Top Democrat on House Middle East subcommittee calls Obama's policy a "colossal moral failure"
