Progressive Democrats Follow Obama to War in Syria

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/shamus-cooke/58313/progressive-democrats-follow-obama-to-war-in-syria

Progressive Democrats Follow Obama to War in Syria
Syria | War
by Shamus Cooke | September 15, 2014 - 6:32am

It’s nearly impossible to find an anti-war congressperson nowadays. A bi-partisan consensus exists for an expanded war in Iraq and Syria — from the “radical” socialist Bernie Sanders to Obama’s right-wing nemesis, John Boehner. So enthused was Boehner that he ordered Republicans back to D.C. — during a peak campaign season — to vote for Obama’s plan to fund the Syrian rebels.

Aiding the Syrian rebels is the fastest moving part of Obama’s anti-ISIS strategy. The Syrian rebels get a quick congressional vote and a speedy promise from U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia to open a rebel training camp, whose goal is to recruit and train 6,000 Syrian rebels over the next year, assumedly flush with their Congressional approved $500 million dollars.

The problem is that the Syrian rebels aren’t motivated to fight ISIS; they are rebelling against the Syrian government. They want regime change. This glaring paradox is hardly mentioned in the U.S. media, though The New York Times commented on it briefly:

“…there are bigger questions. The main target of the United States right now is ISIS, but for the mainstream (Syrian) rebel groups, getting rid of Mr. Assad is the main goal. How do you reconcile those competing goals?”

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We've been invading and occupying Muslim countries for almost 14 years.

The draft ended shortly after the Vietnam War ended. Our All Volunteer Force (no draftees) enabled dubya and Obama to invade and occupy two Muslim countries. We had serving soldiers in gangs in our bases in Germany. 'Personality Disorders', stop-loss, military sexual assault and suicides are just a few of the bad things to come out of this general war.



What exactly are we getting with that 57%? The answer: more war.

[djean111]

1. That pie chart is shameful.

And some of Congress and the MIC are hungrily eying the little slices.