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Syria's Insurrection Is Not America's War

Gary634 Wrote: Jun 05, 2012 10:44 AM
Then, when the War or Terro began to drag out (which is exactly what "W" said would happen, when he made his plans known) democrats lined up to condemn the entire War, accusing Bush of only being interested in the oil, beneath Iraq ... all the while forgetting that he'd warned the Iraqis not to burn THEIR oil wells, because they would need the revenue, therein, to help rebuild what would be destroyed as America's military ran the entire Saddam regime out of the country. So, when Obama was running for president, one of his, ill-conceived, lies was that he'd pull the American military out of Iraq, within his first 100 days in office and also said he had plans to end the War on Terror, garnering the votes of many first-time voters, who...
In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria -- arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to "create safe zones" for anti-regime forces "inside Syria's borders" -- The Washington Post invokes "vital U.S. interests" that are somehow imperiled there.

Exactly what these vital interests are is left unexplained.

For 40 years, we have lived with a Damascus regime led by either Bashar Assad or his father, Hafez Assad. Were our "vital interests" in peril all four decades?

In 1991, George H.W. Bush recruited the elder Assad into his Desert Storm coalition that liberated Kuwait. Damascus sent 4,000 troops. In gratitude,...

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