Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has come out strongly and firmly warning the United States against any military action against terrorists within its borders unless it is approved by Damascus. "Any action of any type without the approval of Syrian government is an aggression against Syria," says Ali Haidar, minister of national reconciliation affairs.
"The US president has spoken directly about the possibility of strikes by the US armed forces against Isil positions in Syria without the consent of the legitimate government," Russian ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said yesterday. "This step, in the absence of a UN Security Council decision, would be an act of aggression, a gross violation of international law."
This whole issue is thorny beyond imagination. For example, you have Putin backing Assad and you have Iran calling a lot of shots with the Shiites as well as the Iraqi and Syrian governments. What are we going to get into if we start air strikes against I.S.I.S. headquarters in Syria? Certainly, we have no legal right to go into Syria unless we are willing to warn that we are at war with terrorism and any nation who doesn't join us or who gives safe haven to terrorists is our enemy and therefore at war against us... then we have that right. But, Obama has come nowhere close to saying that.
Assad should rightfully be the one to take on I.S.I.S. within his borders and rout them out; if he doesn't, then he has no leg to stand on because he is our de facto enemy and we are in a de facto war.
Anyone who has even lightly studied the history of terrorism understands that they do not abide by Geneva conventions or other so-called "rules of war." They have no compunctions about beheading those in their way and dragging their bloody corpses through the streets. They rape, they pillage and plunder without any reservations; in short, they are 180 degrees from anything close to the "political correctness" we seem bound and determined to pursue, even in war.
They will hide from our bombers and drones and then gather again to continue their relentless campaign against peace and civility. You can't scare these guys with bombs or drones and anyone who thinks you can does not understand the simple fact that they consider it to be an honor to die while trying to kill you. You can aim a tank at them and they will continue to run toward you with their knives and small arms knowing fully that if there are enough of them, some will get through.
Our premature withdrawal and subsequent absence from Iraq set up the ability for I.S.I.S. to flourish. We lost the initiative when we didn't take out their desert training camps when Obama was declaring an end to the war against terrorism. Now, Obama is hell-bent on withdrawing the rest of our troops from Afghanistan, thereby opening the door even more for the expansion of I.S.I.S.
In short, Obama is setting us up for another embarrassing and costly exercise in futility. And if our country and the world are at this sad state of affairs now, can you possibly imagine where we are going to be two years from now?
Perhaps we should draw another red line in the sand; we'll just make it thicker this time.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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