Yeah, Huntsman came out saying Climate Change is real and needs to be addressed, and suddenly he got shit on and forgotten by the Republicans.
More like drinking the Democrat kook-aid. I don't think he ever got much consideration by any of the republican voters. There was no "he was doing fine until" moment that I recall.
>So, here we are, 5 weeks in. Now we're at war with ISIS. We will continue to bomb Iraq. We will begin bombing in Syria.< About a thousand, so far. Advisors, trainers and guards, so they say. So, if ISIS rolls in and kills some of our guys, and captures a couple dozen others, do you think we would put boots on the ground to rescue them? Do you think that would be the time to ask Congress for approval before we do that? Go Blazers
>We now begin a full blown war against ISIS/ISIL/Al Qaeda. These are the same guys the President wanted to provide US weapons to a year ago. So, not only wanted to arm them, but did. Goggle is your friend. You do realize that Al Qaeda was the most effective fighting force of all the rebel groups, right? Go Blazers
I think your idea of 'them' is a little broad. There's more than one group of 'them' in the middle east. barfo
So, we arm the Syria rebels and, what?, they promise not to give any weapons to their best fighters? Go Blazers
Assad did that? Citation please. You seemed to miss the part where we are now allies with and, providing air support for, a Syrian government that gassed its own people a year ago. No problem? The President should make that call on his own? Go Blazers
This is why we should stay out of this shit and let them have their holy war. Any side we arm or back financially will eventually (if they arent already) be our sworn enemy in the never ending war on "terror" Let them buy their own guns, the invisible hand of the free market will decide who lives and dies
There is a huge difference between the Syrian rebels and ISIS and/or al-Qaeda. The fear was not that the rebels would give ISIS or al-Qaeda weapons, it was that the ISIS or al-Qaeda would kill the rebels and take their shit.
the syrian rebels against assad are militant muslim freedom fighters, and they are our allies, but the rebels against the rebels in syria are militant muslim terrorists and our mortal enemy in our never ending war on terror. so the enemy of our enemys enemy is our friend, until they arent. or something. all i know is that we should definitely keep sending weapons and money to them, it is working splendidly.
To me, it's more what Denny said....Sunni vs. Shia. It's still Al-Qaeda. When we started arming the rebels in Syria, we were arming Al-Qaeda Iraq/ISIS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant Go Blazers
Iran is scared shitless because there's a big bad enemy at their doorstep. Iran is Shi'ia, their enemy is Sunni. How about we make a big batch of popcorn and watch the show?
How times change. I remember when we had to take out Saddam because he was a bad, bad man. Guess ISIL are better in your book than Saddam? barfo
For people to change their views can often be a good thing. if someone was naïvely FOR war in the past, but now realizes that interventionism is often fucking stupid, shows progress imo. Yes it is fun to point and laugh, but at least they are headed in the right direction
