The Problem Is...

Or at least one of our many problems.

We shouldn't be putting troops into Iraq.  Not advisers (and make no mistake, those advisers are fighting), not air strikes, not boots on the ground.  We have no real strategy.  We have rules of engagement that guarantee that our soldiers will die.  And we will be acting as functionaries of Iran, who people seem to forget are well on their way to nuke power.  The bad kind.  The kind they can use to make a big mess in the Middle East.

We should be streaming materials to anyone in the area that wants to fight isis.  And at the same time we should be sealing our borders and doing some man-hunting here in our own country.  And not sending major bad guy leaders back to the field.   

But you know what the Dems need right now?  A war.  All the excitement and rallying.  They aren't looking good going into November.  So, suddenly, isis isn't j.v. league anymore.  In a couple weeks time, the yawning has turned into war drums beating.  Hagel, Kerry, Elizabeth Warren - a ton of people who have have been silent for months as isis slaughtered its way across Iraq.  I realize that their victims were only Christians, but, still.   I realize that the danger is coming across our open border, but still.  Look at those polls.  Something has to be done.  So, war.  And does any one want to take bets on whether or not Obama, once they get him off the golf course, bothers to go to Congress to get authorization?

Isis is a horror that I would like to see turned into a smear on the sand, with no pieces or fragments left.  I'd say they are animals but that would be an insult to animals.  They need to be removed from the face of the earth.  But if we go in there in our current state, under our current "leaders", all we are going to have is a lot of dead Americans and only some of the heads of the Hydra cut off.   Give the people looking into the eyes of the Hydra the means to cut its heads off over there, and concentrate on cutting off the heads that have come here.

h/t Jeff Kuhner, whose reasoning goes against my impulses.  But I have to agree.

Wait. Rewind that.

"Washington—Sunni extremists in Iraq have occupied what was once Saddam Hussein's premier chemical-weapons production facility, a complex that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department and other U.S. government officials said."

But I thought Saddam didn't have any chemical weapons?

Of course, we do have satellite photos of trucks swarming and leaving those weapons factories in the months before the U.S. invaded.  So these old ones are just the ones that got left behind as they moved them out of the country.

h/t Wall Street Journal

Trojan Horse

So.  Who...

...has left Iran as strong and as capable of having nuclear weapons as ever?
...is really in charge in Iraq?
...is involved in training and arming al-Qaeda in Syria?
...waged an illegal war In Libya, helping to overthrew Qaddafi and empower islamists and al-Qaeda there?
...supported putting the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt?
....is going to win the war for the Taliban in Afghanistan -- having tied the hands of our military and now released top Taliban leaders back to the battlefield?

I have though the last few years that the problem was just that we have a hard core Marxist/socialist in the White House.

But maybe that's not it at all.  If the radical Islamic intent is to destroy American culture, Marxism is an excellent tool to use. 

And a president is in an excellent position to attack America from many different directions.

I'm thinking a lot of things about our president right now that do not include the words "he's a patriotic American".  I'm thinking that he may well be a cleverly presented jihadi.


Because it's getting harder and harder to believe that he's really that stupid.