President Obama on Thursday thanked Congress for passing a measure that permits Obama to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels fighting ISIS.
Obama praised the bipartisanship and said he was pleased with “speed and serious with which they approached this urgent issue.”
The President also reiterated that American troops in Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission.
Big dumb move.
I remain unconvinced there is a “moderate” islamic extremist. Is one better than another simply because they don’t behead innocent people? and once we send arms there’s no guarantee who will get them or keep them. We’ve seen this time and again.
And many in the GOP are running around saying we gotta send in troops as if we had not done that for the last decade+ in Iraq and Afghanistan
Great! Now we know who we will be fighting against 10 years from now.
EDIT: I believe it should be “whom” we will be fighting against. But that doesn’t sound right.
The truth is there are no good answers. There are only 3 choices.
Be hard enough to break their culture and build our own state / colony. And I mean hard to the point of being evil. We, the US, don’t want to do this. Moreover I don’t think our system could do it if we wanted to.
Don’t interfere at all and live with whatever naturally develops there, no matter how good or bad.
Move it sideways. Keep arming and training rebels only to fight against those very same men with the very same guns 10-15 years later, but making sure that nothing every really changes. Sideways.
I think we know this and are deliberately choosing door #3.
I thank Sen. Gillibrand for voting “no” on arming the rebels, an act of war in my eyes.