Quote:The names on the memo are almost all midlevel officials — many of them career diplomats — who have been involved in the administration’s Syria policy over the last five years, at home or abroad. They range from a Syria desk officer in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to a former deputy to the American ambassador in Damascus.

While there are no widely recognized names, higher-level State Department officials are known to share their concerns.

This was issued as an internal memo intended only for the State Department and White House but it should be no surprise it was leaked. Calling for additional military action, the memo noted that doing nothing to punish Assad for continued violations will

Quote:... doom efforts to broker a political settlement because Mr. Assad will feel no pressure to negotiate with the moderate opposition or other factions fighting him.

This comes a day after the CIA Director, under oath in Congressional testimony, contradicted Obama's recent comments on ISIS.

Maybe another red line is in the offing.

the uncomfortable truth that no one is admitting is that it's probably too late to do anything about ISIS that doesn't involve a full blown ground war, and no one has the stomach for that anymore. even if we did go through that national agony again, there's no guarantee that a gutless president won't come along afterwards and unwin the victory again. that's yet another broken precedent compliments of this president; actively undoing the accomplishments of the last administration, despite the hazard to national security (not to mention common sense), just to score political points.

and even if it isn't too late now, it will probably be too late after another 6 months of this retrograde foreign policy.

I got a bunch of veterans that are willing to suit up one more time to fight shitsis, including myself.


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(06-18-2016 05:39 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  I got a bunch of veterans that are willing to suit up one more time to fight shitsis, including myself.

mind you, I wasn't in any way referring to the will of the armed forces. that, we can always count on. I was condemning the political will of our governing class, and the breezy ease in which the public can be manipulated.

I totally and completely trust the military. I don't trust our political class, and I especially don't trust us. we, the people, are morons.