Morning Briefing
For August 29, 2013
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1. Obama, Syria and Iraq: Any End But Victory
The plans being floated by President Obama
and Secretary of State Kerry for a wildly unpopular military
intervention in Syria are incoherent on any number of levels. Rather
than identify an enemy and seek the enemy’s defeat, the essential
requirement for using military force, the Administration is unwilling to
declare the toppling of the Assad regime as a goal – despite Obama’s
own proclamation two years ago this month that “[f]or the sake of the
Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.”
Instead, according to one unnamed “U.S. official” quoted by the LA
Times, the Administration wants a military strike “just muscular enough
not to get mocked.” Churchillian, this is not. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Ethnic Cleansing Begins In Syria
As we are on the cusp of military action in
Syria, it would do us well to take a few moments to consider whom,
exactly, we are supporting.
Granted, most were horrified at the stories
of hundreds of Syrians, presumably civilians but we don’t really know
the mix, killed by chemical weapons that may or may not have been used
by the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
As far
as I can discern the sum total of the reasoning for any attack on Syrian
government forces and facilities is the use of chemical weapons. It
can’t be an objection to the slaughter of civilians as our new BFFs in
Syria have an uninterrupted record of massacre and atrocity. Now they
have begun a campaign of what seems to be ethnic cleansing in Syrian
Kurdistan . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. The War of Obama’s Ego
Nations
go to war for all sorts of reasons. Some righteous, some profoundly
silly. In 1731, a British brig commanded by a Robert Jenkins was boarded
by a Spanish garda costa lugger off the coast of Spanish Florida. The
Spanish naval officer accused Jenkins of smuggling and cut off his ear
and told him he’d do the same to George II if he caught him smuggling.
Parliament was not amused and declared war giving us the War of Jenkins
Ear. What we are looking at today is a war that is nothing more than the
War of Obama’s Ego. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Clean living, pure thought, and high aspirations
It has
been sad, but predictable, to watch a parade of leftist hacks draft the
spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. into service this week, to promote some
bit of Democrat Party dogma or other. Impeached
former President Bill Clinton took the cake by uncorking a bizarre
finger-wagging rant that was presumably intended to slam voter-ID laws
by comparing them to the process of purchasing an assault weapon. Since
Clinton is a lazy ideologue who assumes his audience is filled with
idiots, he didn’t put a lot of thought behind his words, and ended up
saying something that could be interpreted as a call for photo ID,
background checks, and a waiting period before allowing voter
registration.
Alas, also high on the hackery roll call of
shame is Martin Luther King III, who used a Washington Post op-ed to
peddle a bit of ersatz Trayvon Martin mythology . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. President Bill Clinton Supports Ending Background Checks to Buy Guns
Using
the 50th Anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream”
speech as his backdrop, former President Bill Clinton called for the
elimination of background checks to purchase guns.
Ever
since the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1994, which Bill
Clinton himself signed into law, purchases of firearms in every state
must go through a firearms background check that includes a search of
the National Instant Check System (NICS). That system identifies quickly
anyone barred from owning a gun. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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