US Contemplates Joining Forces With Al Qaeda
Let me make sure I have this straight. Over ninety thousand people have died so far in two years of the civil war in Syria. That didn't particularly matter and certain didn't warrant US involvement. And yet, 100-150 people dying of chemical weapons burns is a red line that forces the US to get itself involved in an Islamic sectarian war? I'm not understanding the logic.
Put another way, at the same time that the NSA is telling us that they have to spy on every American in order to stop terrorism, we're rushing to join forces with people who openly pledge allegiance to Al Qaeda.
This air war in Syria that we're presumably about to start? How exactly are we going to pay for it? And how are we going to pay for compensating the families of the pilots who get killed and providing lifelong medical support to the ones who are severely injured? It doesn't seem like we've done a good job of that with the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Yet now we propose to get into yet another conflict that will cause even more casualties.
I haven't heard any "fiscal conservatives" addressing the question of how we'll be paying for a war in Syria. I'm sure they would be hollering about the cost if we were proposing to spend a few million dollars on food stamps for hungry people. But when we're proposing to bomb some country that most Americans probably can't find on a map, cost doesn't seem to matter. Again, don't understand the logic.
Put another way, at the same time that the NSA is telling us that they have to spy on every American in order to stop terrorism, we're rushing to join forces with people who openly pledge allegiance to Al Qaeda.
This air war in Syria that we're presumably about to start? How exactly are we going to pay for it? And how are we going to pay for compensating the families of the pilots who get killed and providing lifelong medical support to the ones who are severely injured? It doesn't seem like we've done a good job of that with the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Yet now we propose to get into yet another conflict that will cause even more casualties.
I haven't heard any "fiscal conservatives" addressing the question of how we'll be paying for a war in Syria. I'm sure they would be hollering about the cost if we were proposing to spend a few million dollars on food stamps for hungry people. But when we're proposing to bomb some country that most Americans probably can't find on a map, cost doesn't seem to matter. Again, don't understand the logic.