INTERVENTIONISM RUN AMOK …
We wrote earlier this week on the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of American intervention in Syria: Where our government is now arming the very terrorists we are supposed to be fighting.
Make sense? Of course not … but this isn’t a “War on Terror,” this is a proxy war against Russia. An effort by the American military-industrial complex to ramp up a new Cold War.
Anyway, former Florida governor Jeb Bush – one of the establishment “Republicans” seeking the GOP presidential nomination – has a lot of thoughts on what the United States should do in Syria, and he shared those thoughts earlier today on CBS.
Specifically, Bush said current U.S. president Barack Obama should have intervened earlier in the effort to take out Syrian president Bashar al-Assad “because that void now is filled.”
“We see even Cuban generals in Syria,” Bush said. “We see the Iranians as well as the Russians.”
So … what to do?
A lot, according to Bush.
“I think we need to create safe zones to have a safe harbor for refuges and to allow us to rebuild the remnants of the Syrian Free Army,” Bush added. “We need to engage the Arab world to provide support for a unified effort. We need to have no fly zones. The argument is, well we’ll get into the conflict with Russia, maybe Russia shouldn’t want to be in conflict with us. I mean, this is a place where American leadership is desperately needed. Russia is there to prop up Assad. We are there to deal with both Assad and ISIS. We should — we should garner the support of Europe and the middle east countries to do just that.”
Wow … we knew Bush was all about picking a fight with the Russians, but this is ridiculous.
More to the point, the place where “American leadership is desperately needed” is … wait for it … America.
And that “leadership” involves recognizing that our intervention around the world isn’t just unsustainable, it is counter-productive – and that as a country we must confine our military assets toward the defense of our homeland and the protection of core national security interests abroad.
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Like most of the other politicians he’s just saying what those who fund him want to hear. He’s a good little puppet.
We need American leadership in Syria? It was American leadership, more specifically…Jeb’s Dad and Brother’s leadership, that caused this whole mess to begin with.
Yet another thing Trump gets right.
One more of multitudes of reasons that we never want another damn Bush in the White House, again. They are as bad as Clintons.
Hey CIC – don’t you be talking bad about my girl Hillary now! LOL
Hi Blues! I’m sorry, but the woman radiates evil and self-centeredness on a level that would make even Nikki Haley cringe, and that’s bad.
Hope you are doing well and managed to stay dry during the floods!
“on a level that would make even Nikki Haley cringe”
Now THAT is bad! LOL
Maybe Hillary and Huma will share the same cell….
It was telling that The Committee even called Huma to testify – as if SHE had something to do with Benghazi – especially since she was not even with Secretary Clinton when this tragedy took place. I’ll buy you a new car if either of them is convicted of anything. Before it is over it might be some on The Committee that are sharing a cell – just saying.
The Bushes do best in a Cold War environment of Us versus Them. Nuance doesn’t sit well with them. Jeb! is another Republican tough-talker who has never served a day in uniform nor ever broken a sweat for his country, but he’s eager to send someone else to fight.
Obama seems to be doing OK himself making three military comments in the last week without any input from Congress.
As for service in uniform, countries that put the .military under civilian control seem to avoid war better than those that are run by the military or former soldiers.
So much for George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Zack Taylor, U.S. Grant, Ike and a few others who did well by us.
Recent wars were very fresh in all of their minds.
Did it ever occur to you that Russia might be picking a fight with us?
Years ago, we were taught that such was how it was. Maybe it was and maybe not. These days, looking at things objectively, I really get the feeling our government is the aggressor. What seems to create tremendous internal conflict for many, myself included, is bucking the (possibly misguided) jingoism masquerading as patriotism inside of us that “we are America and as such, we are always in the right”.
When you sit down and look objectively at the numerous things our “leaders” have done to us and our country over the last few decades, it becomes a bit easier to wonder if there are not forces at work inside our government who stand to benefit from keeping hostilities between Russia and ourselves stoked.
Seriously, did you trust Bush? Perhaps you might answer that in the affirmative, but tell me, do you trust Obama? If you cannot trust him (or them), then how can we be sure our antagonism of Russia is truly
If anything, Putin is making worse mistakes and more harmful mistakes for Russia than the US. Crimea is an exspense as well as Eastern Ukraine. Syria is going to be an endless commitment of resources they can’t afford. Their economy is declining while we still have meager growth. Their population is half ours and there economy is a fraction of ours. The Russian economy is riddled with cronyism. It’s heavily dependent on exporting commodities which have tumbled in price. Sanctions prevent it from getting technology and investment needed to develop its economy.
Putin is popular with his citizens, but citizens have foolishly followed pied pipers before.
I’m not saying it’s better there or that they have a better lifestyle. There does appear to be more than a little evidence indicating that “we” have stirred problems in the Ukraine. We have turds like Lindsey Graham and John McCain who would love nothing better than to go down in the history books as having started WWIII, while they hide with their families in well-appointed bunkers, paid for by those of us who would be breathing radioactive air, and drinking the radioactive water.
For the last few decades, we have to look no further than ourselves for examples of those who have followed the pied pipers.
A Better Title for this one . . . .
JEB BUSH IS STILL PICKING HIS NOSE
Sinuses Run Amok . . .
LMAO!!!!! Would it be safe to say that he is the booger man?
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I recently read that he admits to still using Wolfowitz and one or two of the other notorious Plan for the New American Century neocons as advisers. Could it get much worse?
It’s a fight the U.S. would lose. Israeli espionage has provided Russia & China with the latest American weapons.