by Farid Ghadry
For those who have not yet come around to comparing Iraq to Syria, maybe you ought to start looking at the early results of the well-known effects of President Bush foreign policy in Iraq with today’s effects of President Obama‘s foreign policy in Syria. Allow me to provide the guiding principles.
In Iraq, President Bush helped free a country from a ruthless ruler who threatened the whole region with WMD and in fact used WMD against his own people.
For Syria, Obama did not lift one finger to save the Syrian people, not even to save human lives using any kind of humanitarian aid.
In Iraq, Iran and Syria terrorized American troops and Democratic Speaker Pelosi chided her Republican President for the war, paid a complementary visit to Assad in April 2007 who was still hunting Americans troops, and refused to blame Syria and Iran for the terror in Iraq (Still refusing to blame Assad for his butchery even today).
For Syria, Democratic President Obama has only threatened Assad if he used chemical weapons, not if he kills widely using carpet bombing of civilian targets or even the Phosphorous bomb considered by many experts to be a chemical weapon. He also refused to take advantage of the Revolution in Syria to accelerate the demise of Assad, a sworn enemy of the US. In fact, Obama is pursuing a solution where Assad could still rule Syria (Hillary Clinton is negotiating as I write this with the Russians).
Are you seeing a pattern here? One far left Democratic leader does not blame Assad, the other, even further to the left, does not remove him when offered the best opportunity to do so.
Is it possible neither of them wants to find that precious WMD cargo Saddam shipped to Syria just before the war broke out in 2003?
Compare that to Iraq where President Bush did what was right in defending the human rights of Iraqis and how the Democratic machine just went after him instead of standing by him when American lives were at stake. Even some Republicans today cannot find the courage to defend President Bush for Iraq as they watch the tragedy in Syria unfold. But given the new class of terrorists Obama has fathered in Syria out of naivete and negligence, everyone will start paying attention soon.
Now to this new class of terrorists.
Obama’s policy on Syria has empowered a new young generation of extremists (Syrian Median age is 21.7) that will haunt US interests for another 30 years. These hardcore Islamists have begun to rule Syria as if they were in Afghanistan.
Here is a snippet from a Syrian observing what is taking place with this new class of extremists.
“We see a shift toward Islamicization
of the ideology of the people who are fighting on the ground, which is a
concern. They’re more cohesive as a group and that’s a problem because
it’s radicalizing young people who want to be part of a military
campaign against the regime, against a minority in Syria and they
eventually adopt the more radical view.”
“We see in Aleppo city now they’ve
installed an Islamic court and a police of vice and virtue which means
people, civilians, are being tried for moral crimes.”
“This, again, goes to the environment
that Assad and his regime have created with their violence – that they
have, as we have been concerned about for many months, created an
environment with this violence which extremists can now try to exploit,”
Syria will cost America much chagrin in the future and even possibly American lives and materials. Don’t expect this administration to blame itself for it because they have already started pointing the fingers at Assad.
If not Bush, it’s Assad. But never Pelosi or Obama.
Farid Ghadry
Source: http://ghadry.com/2012/12/obama-stands-blameless-for-a-new-class-of-extremists-in-syria/
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2 comments:
First of all, Iraq is a disaster. With the benefit of hindsight most would agree that Iraq would have been better left alone.
If Mr. Ghadry is upset because the US has not "armed the rebels" he should pick another way to present his position.
Taking into consideration the burning of churches and the Iranian influence (just to name a few) in Iraq. Saddam and his sons no doubt were very bad actors and deserved their fate. But is the place better off now?? I doubt it!
Amen and amen, Anonymous! Why does the USA feel they have to solve all the world's problems? Stay out of it. Let the Muslims fight it out among themselves; the more they fight each other, the less they will pay attention to us non-Muslims. Why support one crocodile over against another? Why arm the Rebels in Syria? Why arm Egypt? So that they have the weaponry to attack Israel?
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