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Can it be any more clear that Republican opposition to limited strikes in Syria is based on nothing more than political opportunism? They were all for this a year ago and now have only changed their mind simply because Obama is now for it. Dishonesty and double talk is the hallmark of the modern Republican Party. It's nice to see at least one conservative publication is still honest enough to admit it.
Back atcha buddy! If Romney were in office you would already be calling him a war criminal for even considering military action.
Now you probably back it because its your guy who's making the argument for it.
Whatever Romney would have done is not even worth a discussion. Romney lost the election. Obama is the "I won" guy once again. Obama made the now famous "Red Line" threats while Assad was slaughtering his own people - keep in mind that Assad rolled tanks against them in March-April of 2011 and the White House just sat around and ignored it. The Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012 was less than 2 months from the Presidential Election and to this very day - we have no idea where the President was that night, what he was doing and not a single person has been brought to Justice to way Obama kept promising. We've still got 30 missing witnesses for heaven's sake.
It was clear as day to many of us that the Obama Foreign Policy was a total disaster, but the polls didn't show that - the public thought he was doing a swell job and the Media pushed that line at every turn. They turned on Romney like a pack of wild dogs when he suggested otherwise. Obama was supposed to be the great Leader of the Arab Spring, we were going to have great relationships with Russia and China, make a deal with Iran, solve the Mid-East Palestinian problems and the world would Love and Respect the USA again ..... how's that all working out?
And so ..... here we are. You can't hide failure forever and the chickens are now coming home to roost. This country is still dealing with Foreign Policy fallout from the Jimmy Carter Presidency - the fallout from the Obama Presidency will be greater, the USA gave him 8 years to mess with his "experiments" on putting the Muslim Brotherhood & Islamists in power across the Mid-East and the Russian re-set.
We will just have to do the best we can and "hope" we pull through it as a Nation. Obama's gamble to blame his short comings and dithering on the Republicans will fail - he can't get the Democrats on board and he knows it.
You know he is desperate when he sits down for an interview with FOX News - he will do that on Tuesday.
Hardly my lord and savior. In fact, most actual liberals have been dissatisfied with him for being so painfully moderate and middle of the road since the end of his first year but it is hilarious how conservatives, who are ever disconnected from reality, pretend other wise.
That's because a Republican Congress forced him to the right to try to get anything done.
And if Ron Paul were President ( and we'd all be far better off if he were), he'd have laughed in the face of those telling him we need to trump up an attack on Syria so it can lead to further escalations which would make certain people even richer and keep certain people in power at our expense.
" If Bush were still president... oh wait, I guess he still is. "
What does Romney have to do with anything? He isn't the president. Obama is. Why don't you liberals point the blame and finger where it belongs - at yourselves and Obama and take responsibility for once.
He would have used it as an excuse to start his precious war on Iran.
GOP chickenhawks like Willard seem to just love seeing other guys going off to fight. Of course, none of the "patritoic" Romney boys would be at risk, as no Romneys have ever lowered themselves to military service.
]Whatever Romney would have done is not even worth a discussion. Romney lost the election.[/b] Obama is the "I won" guy once again. Obama made the now famous "Red Line" threats while Assad was slaughtering his own people - keep in mind that Assad rolled tanks against them in March-April of 2011 and the White House just sat around and ignored it. The Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012 was less than 2 months from the Presidential Election and to this very day - we have no idea where the President was that night, what he was doing and not a single person has been brought to Justice to way Obama kept promising. We've still got 30 missing witnesses for heaven's sake.
It was clear as day to many of us that the Obama Foreign Policy was a total disaster, but the polls didn't show that - the public thought he was doing a swell job and the Media pushed that line at every turn. They turned on Romney like a pack of wild dogs when he suggested otherwise. Obama was supposed to be the great Leader of the Arab Spring, we were going to have great relationships with Russia and China, make a deal with Iran, solve the Mid-East Palestinian problems and the world would Love and Respect the USA again ..... how's that all working out?
And so ..... here we are. You can't hide failure forever and the chickens are now coming home to roost. This country is still dealing with Foreign Policy fallout from the Jimmy Carter Presidency - the fallout from the Obama Presidency will be greater, the USA gave him 8 years to mess with his "experiments" on putting the Muslim Brotherhood & Islamists in power across the Mid-East and the Russian re-set.
We will just have to do the best we can and "hope" we pull through it as a Nation. Obama's gamble to blame his short comings and dithering on the Republicans will fail - he can't get the Democrats on board and he knows it.
You know he is desperate when he sits down for an interview with FOX News - he will do that on Tuesday.
Yet the title and entire premise of the thread is: "On Syria, what would Romney have done"?
This is why all the speculating is going on. We are responding to the OP's question.
Mainly that it shows exactly where Republicans collectively were on Syria before Obama agreed with them. This highlights how they have, once again, duplicitous & disingenuously flipped a 180 just to oppose the President even though the President is supporting their own publicly stated position. If nothing else it highlights the dishonesty and untrustworthiness of anything the Republican Party says.
True. Though you can say no better of Democrats in all honesty.
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Afraid to deal with reality and that a Democratic President is pushing a war ?
Well, first off, a "war" isn't being pushed. Not an unjustifiable full-on invasion such as Iraq, but a limited strike.
I do, however, oppose it on several grounds. I don't give Obama a pass on this any more than I would have Bush. I'm not an Obama fan or supporter anyway. We can't see the endgame here and I feel we should avoid involvement in the Middle East as much as possible.
I don't think we can assume we can fly over and drop bombs on Syria and then wash our hands. Who knows what it may lead to.
But I also believe that if this had happened under Bush a lot of people who are against Obama doing it would have been fine with Bush doing it. If this had happened under Bush, people opposing it would have been called anti-American terrorist sympathizers by the hypocritical partisan hack idiots on the right. (And yes, there are plenty of hypocritical partisan hack idiots on the left as well.)
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On Syria, what would Romney have done?
