At Least Lindsey Graham Is Honest About His War Mongering
"If that scares you, don't vote for me."
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Give our old pal Senator Huckleberry J. Butchmeup one thing—he's upfront about what President Huckleberry J. Butchmeup's administration is going to be all about. It will be all about the enthusiastic mongering of war in all its forms. For example, in Syria, which is the devil's own rat's nest of different groups who want to slaughter each other, Huckleberry would like us to fight...everybody.
"Radical Islam is not going to be compromised with. They are religious Nazis. Somebody better go over there and hit them before they hit us," Graham said Wednesday. "There is no alternative to going in on the ground and pulling the caliphate up by the roots. If that scares you, don't vote for me."..But on this day, Graham was at his most strident on what to do in Syria against both President Bashar Assad and the Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
"We never fix Assad unless he goes," Graham said. "The caliphate mainly exists in Syria. It would be a large military operation." Graham envisions a U.S.-led multinational force, with significant contributions of both blood and treasure from countries in the region...Ten thousand — probably us because I don't want to lose. You're going to need a large force. There are ... 30,000 or 40,000 ISIL guys, only God knows how many. I'm not looking for a fair fight here," Graham said. "I'm looking for a large regional army where the vast majority would be Arabs and Turks, but I fear if they go in without us they could actually lose."
Excuse me but, I've been following the news fairly closely, and it doesn't seem that the countries of the region are stepping up with this large multinational effort even though they're under threat now. Does Huckleberry really believe putting on his Teddy Roosevelt drag is going to be enough to galvanize such an effort? Is he high?
But if you vote for him, you know what you're going to get.
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