Five questions for approaching the US war inside Syria
Rachel Maddow outlines five questions to serve as a guide for understanding anti-ISIS operations in Syria and what we know about their answers so far after the war’s first day.
Rachel Maddow outlines five questions to serve as a guide for understanding anti-ISIS operations in Syria and what we know about their answers so far after the war’s first day.
5. Is it legal?
What is legal anymore, really? Didn't Congress make insider trading (like stacking the deck in a poker game) legal for themselves for a ton of years and not investigate... themselves?
Didn't Dick Cheney & Bush mislead us in to a war, that they knew would destabilize the region, and get away without their media arm saying a thing (& still silent on the matter as far as proof goes)? i.e. 1. "Hubris" (Full Film) Iraq War Documentary - Rachel Maddow (02-18-2013) & 2. "Why We Did It" - The Invasion of Iraq (FULL)
Didn't Dick Cheney & Bush mislead us in to a war, that they knew would destabilize the region, and get away without their media arm saying a thing (& still silent on the matter as far as proof goes)? i.e. 1. "Hubris" (Full Film) Iraq War Documentary - Rachel Maddow (02-18-2013) & 2. "Why We Did It" - The Invasion of Iraq (FULL)
4. What are the risks to civilians?
ISIS and Assad are essentially competitor terror groups (&, apparently allies! See video below) by diminishing one we just strengthen the other against the civilians. Until both are degraded and destroyed the threat to civilians will be great, especially when you consider that ISIS/ISIL may actually be better to civilians than Assad's forces are. Though, both are committing war crimes no doubt.
If we think hunting down individual "terrorists" in a country on the other side of the planet with our drones is more important than any innocents nearby then we may have another Iraq on our hands. If we take down the two terror groups and allow the civilians to band together locally, we have a much better chance of pulling the area out of it's quagmire.
If we think hunting down individual "terrorists" in a country on the other side of the planet with our drones is more important than any innocents nearby then we may have another Iraq on our hands. If we take down the two terror groups and allow the civilians to band together locally, we have a much better chance of pulling the area out of it's quagmire.
3. How will Syria react?
Syria was begging for helpwhen Assad was bombing and raping the population. Did he get everyone already?
Turns out, no...
Update Sep 30th - Notice how Assad & ISIS/ISIL seem to be allies: Hadi al-Bahra - The president of the Syrian National Coalition, Hadi al-Bahra, discusses the opposition movement's fight to defeat ISIS and gain liberation from Bashar al-Assad. (6:41):
Turns out, no...
Update Sep 30th - Notice how Assad & ISIS/ISIL seem to be allies: Hadi al-Bahra - The president of the Syrian National Coalition, Hadi al-Bahra, discusses the opposition movement's fight to defeat ISIS and gain liberation from Bashar al-Assad. (6:41):
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2. How will the world react?
Russia and China veto stuff for political reasons with China following Russia's lead. General populations will be relieved that Assad is gone and no one will care about ISIS EXCEPT for one thing, if we don't go after our own criminals and continue under the hypocrisy that we are in the right of that 'cancers of terrorism', isn't a cultural thing that we too have experienced and that we helped create over there... we will probably just make a bigger mess. The only way out now is to go all in.
1. Will it work?
Well, that depends on what the GOP does. Their media (they own most of it) carries allot of influence in terms of propaganda. etc. The media do echo chambers often. If they do a positive echo chamber things will get better. If they do a negative one things will get worse. It's not like they don't know what they are doing...
Note on Congress:
Obama broke precedent by asking Congress for approval to strike Syria... i.e. no President before Obama has asked for approval for limited military strikes. By doing so Obama restricted the power of future Presidents by reminding the Congress about their Constitutional duty. Given that WE ARE NOT THE BRITISH AND THIS IS NOT ENGLAND... why not keep that Congressional authority as given by the Constitution and not make stuff up, i.e.
Daily Show - British Parliament and the United States Congress take drastically different approaches to debating the decision to start a war against ISIS. (8:56):
Daily Show - British Parliament and the United States Congress take drastically different approaches to debating the decision to start a war against ISIS. (8:56):
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