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From Roger Simon:
- Israel Takes A Position On Syria
Reuters:In separate remarks breaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public fence-straddling about the civil war next door, the Israeli ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday that Israel"always wanted Bashar Assad to go", in order to...
- Did Russia Just Find A Way To Keep Obama From Aiding, By Function, Al Qaeda/al Nusra Terrorists?
ABC (and others):Obama: Strike ‘Absolutely’ on Hold if Syria Abandons Chemical WeaponsIf Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gives up his chemical weapons, a military strike would “absolutely” be on pause, President Obama said today."I consider this...
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Israel TV: Chemical weapons were fired by Assad’s brother’s unit From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Israel TV: Chemical weapons were fired by Assad’s brother’s unit.(TOI). The chemical weapons allegedly used to kill an estimated 1,000 or more Syrian...
- Assad Orders Army To Fire Missiles At Israel If He Is Killed
So if he gets run over by an Al Qaeda wannabee from the Muslim Brotherhood, attack the Jews!This goes back to the ancient Quranic dictum… JUST IN CASE, KILL THE JEWSFabulous stuff. Mel Brooks could not com,e up with this kind...
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Report: US to tell Assad he must go From Will at The Other News: State Department sources say Washington's efforts to reason with Assad over; White House expected to present new hard-line policy on Syria. The Obama administration is preparing to explicitly...
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Assad: If You Strike At A King, You Must Kill Him
From Roger Simon:
I used to think the quote “If you strike at a king, you must kill him” came from Machiavelli — it certainly sounds like the great Italian — but apparently it comes from the not quite as great American Ralph Waldo Emerson.
But no matter the provenance, the import is obvious: Go for the throat or leave your enemy to exact revenge at your peril — and on his own time. Back in WWII, the United States took Emerson’s advice, going so far as to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki and lay waste to Dresden. But, hey, we won. And Japan and Germany turned into responsible modern democracies.
Lately, not so much.
Since Vietnam, and maybe Korea, we are in the era of the “limited response” and the “surgical strike,” loathe to offend our enemies or, worse yet, have someone speak unkindly of us at a UNESCO meeting.
That was why I was especially pleased to read Bret Stephens’ column in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal — “Target Assad.”
Stephens does not mince words:
Should President Obama decide to order a military strike against Syria, his main order of business must be to kill Bashar Assad. Also, Bashar’s brother and principal henchman, Maher. Also, everyone else in the Assad family with a claim on political power. Also, all of the political symbols of the Assad family’s power, including all of their official or unofficial residences.
The use of chemical weapons against one’s own citizens plumbs depths of barbarity matched in recent history only by Saddam Hussein. A civilized world cannot tolerate it. It must demonstrate that the penalty for it will be acutely personal and inescapably fatal. Right on.
Unfortunately, however, leaks of Obama’s intentions indicate nothing like this direct, morally truthful, and more likely to be effective approach is planned. Instead, we hear only of calibrated pinpricks accompanied by a public pledge that the U.S. is not (Heaven forfend) interested in “regime change,” let alone in the assassination of men who are clearly the mass murderers of their own people (and who knows who else if they had a chance).
Stephens isn’t getting much support for his admittedly “bloody-minded” approach from the right either. Many complain that we will only be playing into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, Assad’s adversaries and certainly not friends of ours.
Well, yes.
- Israel Takes A Position On Syria
Reuters:In separate remarks breaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public fence-straddling about the civil war next door, the Israeli ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday that Israel"always wanted Bashar Assad to go", in order to...
- Did Russia Just Find A Way To Keep Obama From Aiding, By Function, Al Qaeda/al Nusra Terrorists?
ABC (and others):Obama: Strike ‘Absolutely’ on Hold if Syria Abandons Chemical WeaponsIf Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gives up his chemical weapons, a military strike would “absolutely” be on pause, President Obama said today."I consider this...
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Israel TV: Chemical weapons were fired by Assad’s brother’s unit From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Israel TV: Chemical weapons were fired by Assad’s brother’s unit.(TOI). The chemical weapons allegedly used to kill an estimated 1,000 or more Syrian...
- Assad Orders Army To Fire Missiles At Israel If He Is Killed
So if he gets run over by an Al Qaeda wannabee from the Muslim Brotherhood, attack the Jews!This goes back to the ancient Quranic dictum… JUST IN CASE, KILL THE JEWSFabulous stuff. Mel Brooks could not com,e up with this kind...
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Report: US to tell Assad he must go From Will at The Other News: State Department sources say Washington's efforts to reason with Assad over; White House expected to present new hard-line policy on Syria. The Obama administration is preparing to explicitly...