Meet The New Bullshit -- Same As The Old Bullshit
I just have one question: How would John McCain or other Republicans react if a Syrian senator were to sneak across the border from Mexico and have clandestine meetings with an armed militia group whose goal was to overthrow the United States government?
We have entirely too many government officials who seem more interested in meddling in other countries than in abiding by their oaths to serve the American people and preserve, protect, and defend our Constitutional rights. Coincidentally, nearly all of the officials in this category are the ones with the strongest ties to the military-industrial complex, which would gain a new market in Syria.
American resources are over-extended to a ridiculous degree. Our military budget is skyrocketing to an absurdly unsustainable level. And here at home, the government is supposedly too broke to provide infrastructure that's safe for Americans to use without worrying about a bridge collapsing or a gas line blowing up. We're not even properly prepared for completely foreseeable natural disasters.
It amazes me that so many of the same people who complained about intervening in Kosovo or Libya were fine with intervening in Iraq and are gung-ho to intervene in Syria. It seems that the guiding principle for Republicans is simply opposing whatever course of action the Democratic president takes. These idiots don't even learn the proper historical lessons about unintended consequences.
Afghanistan is a case in point. Back in the 1980's, we were gung-ho to provide support for the Afghan mujaheddin, which later morphed into the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Both organizations have caused untold misery for people all around the world, to say nothing of killing 3,000 Americans in the September 11th attacks.
We did all this in the name of "stopping the spread of communism". And by "stopping the spread of communism", what I really mean -- and what they really mean when they use such phrases -- is "padding the profits of huge defense contractors who have way too much political influence". The modern phrase is "fighting terrorism", but the principle is the same.
What's necessary to "fight terrorism" now, Senator McCain tells us, is to go into yet another country and provide weapons to a bunch of terrorists. The justification is that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons, a claim for which there seems to be zero hard evidence. I seem to remember that Senator McCain was one of the people who swore to us that Iraq was chock full of weapons of mass destruction.
How many times do we have to hear the same bullshit before we stop falling for it?
We have entirely too many government officials who seem more interested in meddling in other countries than in abiding by their oaths to serve the American people and preserve, protect, and defend our Constitutional rights. Coincidentally, nearly all of the officials in this category are the ones with the strongest ties to the military-industrial complex, which would gain a new market in Syria.
American resources are over-extended to a ridiculous degree. Our military budget is skyrocketing to an absurdly unsustainable level. And here at home, the government is supposedly too broke to provide infrastructure that's safe for Americans to use without worrying about a bridge collapsing or a gas line blowing up. We're not even properly prepared for completely foreseeable natural disasters.
It amazes me that so many of the same people who complained about intervening in Kosovo or Libya were fine with intervening in Iraq and are gung-ho to intervene in Syria. It seems that the guiding principle for Republicans is simply opposing whatever course of action the Democratic president takes. These idiots don't even learn the proper historical lessons about unintended consequences.
Afghanistan is a case in point. Back in the 1980's, we were gung-ho to provide support for the Afghan mujaheddin, which later morphed into the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Both organizations have caused untold misery for people all around the world, to say nothing of killing 3,000 Americans in the September 11th attacks.
We did all this in the name of "stopping the spread of communism". And by "stopping the spread of communism", what I really mean -- and what they really mean when they use such phrases -- is "padding the profits of huge defense contractors who have way too much political influence". The modern phrase is "fighting terrorism", but the principle is the same.
What's necessary to "fight terrorism" now, Senator McCain tells us, is to go into yet another country and provide weapons to a bunch of terrorists. The justification is that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons, a claim for which there seems to be zero hard evidence. I seem to remember that Senator McCain was one of the people who swore to us that Iraq was chock full of weapons of mass destruction.
How many times do we have to hear the same bullshit before we stop falling for it?