http://www.mediaite.com/tv/shep-smith-lays-into-gop-rep-for-saying-assad-can-continue-to-kill-his-own-people/
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, stepped out oftoday’s hearing on Syria to speak with Fox News’Shepard Smith this afternoon and ended up in a far more contentious argument that she could have anticipated.
Ros-Lehtinen began by saying many of her initial concerns of U.S. military action in Syria have been “alleviated” by the hearing, especially Secretary of State John Kerry’s assurances that there will be no “boots on the ground.” When she suggested that the Arab League could assist the U.S. in the operation, Smith began pushing back hard.“The Arab League has emphatically said no,” Smith corrected the congresswoman. “The British are against it. There’s not a nation on the planet, congresswoman–with great respect and admiration–not a nation on the planet that said if you go do this, we’re right there with you.” As for the question of “boots on the ground,” Smith laid out a worst case scenario and asked if the U.S. is prepared to “stir a hornets’ nest that will leave us in full-scale Middle East war.”When Ros-Lehitinen began defending the United States’ responsibility to hold a “murderous thug” likeBashar al-Assad accountable, Smith countered by laying out the parallels with the Iraq War. “I’m not equating the two things, but I’m saying that our nation is weary,” Smith said. “Why in the world would we bother, when we haven’t even suggested that what we’re doing might stop the slaughter?”
this is not something to envy the Pres. having to reside over, damned if he does damned if he doesn't. getting in other countries civil wars IMO has always been stupid, from the time of the Declaration of ind. till now America is 229 years old these countries we try to convince we know better are thousands of years old and most all of that in conflict.
we have a failed system at least for the last 10 years or since Mrs. Obama changed the drapes and yet we assume the ability to change what we read in our history books to what we have screwed up so bad they ought to war with us for trying to impose it on them.
The congresswoman defended the limited scope of the mission by saying that in effect it is telling Assad, “you can continue killing your own people, you just can’t kill them with chemical gas.”“How do you feel about that message?” Smith asked. “That just doesn’t sound like you.” When she described the current plan as the least bad option, Smith said, “If every option you have is a bad option, and the one you’re considering costs lots of money and has lots of risk, why don’t you sit here and go ‘wow, we might let somebody else take care of this.’”
we have a conundrum that has splintered this country into toothpicks with which each one is used to pick apart any common resolve, yes all are followed by who knows what but in this game of musical chairs the death and mayhem seems to have been taken off the table and replaced by who's right, who will be blamed, what will happen after, congress wanted inclusion they get it then set about trying to demean the Pres. for his leadership by calling it lack of leadership.
they blame him for the redline statement but that was in place in the 90's no chemicals. they claim the need for America to police then as long as it's not this Pres. it's ok another of the long list of things that were never an issue before 2008 Nov. 6th.
