Joe Scarborough is not echoing the cries for military intervention heard from so many of his fellow pundits in recent weeks.
Amid a growing drumbeat for war among America’s commentariat, the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman made an impassioned case on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” for the country’s European allies to take on a larger role against adversaries like ISIS.
Iraq, Scarborough asserted, is “not our problem.”
I support the President trying to get Arab nations trying to fight with us side by side, trying to get European nations. I’m sick and tired of Europeans sitting back and doing nothing, turning the other cheek as Vladimir Putin kicks them in the face time and time again because of money. And in this case, guess what? Iraq? It’s not our problem. This ain’t 2003. It’s 2014. Europe, this is your problem, too. It’s the Middle East’s problem, too. More Muslims are going to be killed by ISIS than westerners.
So, if you guys are sitting back waiting for us to carry your water again just so you can bitch and moan because you don’t like how we carry your water when we try to keep you safe, you know what? You’ve got another thing coming. Just like the President talked about doing it in Libya, where he waited until the Arab League came, I think we need to let the world come to us and ask us to carry their water again, like we’ve been doing for about 60 years now.
It’s become a familiar refrain for Scarborough as of late. Last month, he called out his fellow Republicans for continuing to “bitch and moan” even after President Obama authorized military action in Iraq.
We broke it, we bought it.
(When I say “we” I mean the Bush administration.)
“Carry your water again”? Joe… the first time we “carried their water”, we screwed up the entire region. Why don’t you just admit that these other countries can handle the situation in the Middle East much better than did US neocons.
“This ain’t 2003. It’s 2014”
And tell us how Iraq was our problem in 2003, Moanin’ Ho
Wrong.
We’ve owned this mess ever since the Cheney/Dubya regime bullshitted Congress and the media into it.
“I support the President trying to get Arab nations trying to fight with us side by side, trying to get European nations. I’m sick and tired of Europeans sitting back and doing nothing…”
Perhaps Moanin’ Ho should turn off the U. S. networks and start watching a real news organization like the BBC. Auntie Beeb has been reporting that the SAS will be sent in to deal with ISIS. BBC is reporting that the French President is prepared to use the French Action Services.