ISIS et al

[cellio]

Dear Mr. President,

Please allow me to propose a strategy for dealing with ISIS, since you've said you don't have one but seem to be reaching for the "fire" button for a war that does not have clear national objectives. Please try this one instead:

"Dear Arab world: You sow what you reap. You arm, finance, and encourage Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al Qaida on the one hand but look to us to bail you out from ISIS and friends on the other. What chutzpah. Until you decide that terrorism and brutality are not acceptable even when directed against Jews and westerners, you're on your own. Let's see how that works out for you."

Seriously, why are we even considering helping Syria??? Yes, I know there is a humanitarian crisis. There was one before ISIS too, at Assad's hands. Government-directed humanitarian crises have a long and sad history in the middle east.

The state sponsors of terror will never change their ways if they know they can get our help when those terrorists turn their gazes palace-ward. This is not our fight, and it'll be good for them to learn a lesson, even though there is a civilian cost. We should stay out of it.

Comments

[richardf8]

No.

We should be strengthening Israel's position as a regional power, and not flinching at completely eliminating Hamas and Hezbollah as we have during the past 6 or 7 administrations.

A read of Hamas' charter makes it clear that they, the Islamic Brotherhood, Hezbollah, and ISIS are part and parcel with each other. Instead every American president has preached compromise in the hope of achieving peace in out time (to quote both a State of the Union address by President Obama, and Neville Chamberlain).

The real problem in Syria is there is no one worth backing in the country.