Dem Congressman: ‘Forces That Will Rise If
ISIS Is Destroyed Are Nearly as Evil as ISIS’
September 9, 2014 - 10:50 AM
What this man says encapsulates US foreign policy. He begs
out of helping defeat the most dangerous enemy by far and also grabs at a chance
to denigrate Bashar Assad, ignoring the fact that Assad is the ONLY Middle East
leader who protects Christians and other minorities. After all, Assad is an
Alawite, almost an anti-Muslim within the Muslim community. The only
excuse Washington has had so far for opposing him is that Assad has bombed
civilians, something the US military did throughout the Iraq war and the Kosovo
war and everywhere the US has invaded to 'help.'
“But we saved the Yazidi community. We protected the Mosul dam. We protected … the Shiite Turkmen, and we protected our friends the Kurds. So in four different important areas, ISIS has been rolled back and defeated, and I wish someone on FOX News would give the president a little credit for that,” Sherman said.
Is it really that painful to mention the word 'Christians'?
After all, the last remaining Christians were also saved by US air strikes after
the government chose to allow many to be beheaded. Yet the above quote shows
this 'leader' can't even bring himself to mention that we saved some Christians
(token though they were), as if there is something shameful in helping them. As
if they are somehow subhuman. How can any American talk about imperiled peoples
in the ME and not even mention Christians?
It is downright scary when you realize that the top
levels of the US government could care less about the Christians in the ME. You
don't need to tax your imagination much to realize how little the elites care
about US Christians as well. If we were not the majority, they would not raise a
finger to save us here or anywhere else from an internal enemy. Clearly, we are
expendable. Ironic when you realize that many European Christians fled to
America to survive. In the long run, one must ask: Why did they
bother?
Put this together with a GOP leader's recent call to
send aid to Assad's enemies in Syria and the disdain shown by US pols for
our majority religion and it adds up to an eventual death sentence for
Christians everywhere. Maybe not soon, but project it far enough into the
future, and well, there is no future.
How in the world can anyone still believe that voting for a
Republican will save our Republic any more? There is not a hairs breadth of
difference between the 2 parties. We need some deeper thinking in our
strategy and a much deeper understanding of the enemy that we face.
At the very least we need to understand more clearly that we
have NO friends in Washington, only enemies, and that only a grassroots show of
civil disobedience will make any difference at all.
Don Hank
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Ca.), a senior member of
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned Tuesday that destroying ISIS would
only empower those fighting against the terrorist group – who are almost as evil
as ISIS.
“If you destroy one power in the Middle East, you empower the other side,
andthe four groups that are fighting ISIS now are in many ways
nearly as evil as ISIS itself, and in fact, those who are fighting against ISIS
today on the ground have killed far more Americans than ISIS has,” said Sherman,
top Democrat on the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee.
Obama is planning to lay out his strategy for defeating ISIS on Wednesday.
Sherman said Obama should explain to the country “how complex the situation is and how you cannot just waive a magic wand and have ISIS disappear,” because, “the destruction of ISIS “doesn’t mean that truth and justice just emerges from the soil of the Middle East.”
In an interview on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Sherman was asked what strategy he would endorse if he were advising the president.
“I would say his cautious approach has been a good one, and caution is called for,” Sherman said. “I think he has to respond to his critics who oversimplify the situation dramatically and play to an American public that’s used to watching old Western movies where you have only the black hat and the white hat in the Western movie.
“So if you kill the guy with the black hat, the white hat rides off into the sunset with the school marm. Assad is not a school marm. Al-Nusra is not a school marm. The forces that will rise if ISIS is destroyed are nearly as evil as ISIS,” he added.
Sherman said he hopes the president “will put Congress on the spot and ask for an authorization to use force, because as important as it is to work for good governance in the Middle East, we’ve got to respect the United States Constitution.”
“It is not a given that our constitutional structure can be ignored and degraded and pulled apart and that somehow the society will be able to face tougher times than we have now without it completely unraveling,” he said.
In Sherman’s opinion, authorization to use force would include “air power alone” for a period of two to three years “with expedited procedures to reauthorize as this goes forward.”
“The president would still have the authority he has under the war powers act to conduct up to 60 day incursions on the ground, and the only real use for those that I see is to rescue a pilot,” he said.
“I realize that with Special Forces and spotters and whatever we might be more effective in our bombing campaign, but at this point, I don’t think Congress is going to authorize the use of ground troops, and we need to draw the line,” Sherman added.
Sherman predicted that ISIS would not be destroyed in just a few weeks or months.
“I think you have to explain to the American people you can’t always get what you want immediately at a low cost,” he said.
ISIS is already being degraded, Sherman said.
“ISIS was on a roll. They had one military victory after military victory, and there were people talking about them taking Baghdad and Erbil. Now we see that they have had some substantial losses in Iraq,” he said.
ISIS has not suffered losses – and in fact had some gains – in Syria, Sherman noted, “but we’re not bombing in Syria.”
“But we saved the Yazidi community. We protected the Mosul dam. We protected … the Shiite Turkmen, and we protected our friends the Kurds. So in four different important areas, ISIS has been rolled back and defeated, and I wish someone on FOX News would give the president a little credit for that,” Sherman said.
Obama is planning to lay out his strategy for defeating ISIS on Wednesday.
Sherman said Obama should explain to the country “how complex the situation is and how you cannot just waive a magic wand and have ISIS disappear,” because, “the destruction of ISIS “doesn’t mean that truth and justice just emerges from the soil of the Middle East.”
In an interview on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Sherman was asked what strategy he would endorse if he were advising the president.
“I would say his cautious approach has been a good one, and caution is called for,” Sherman said. “I think he has to respond to his critics who oversimplify the situation dramatically and play to an American public that’s used to watching old Western movies where you have only the black hat and the white hat in the Western movie.
“So if you kill the guy with the black hat, the white hat rides off into the sunset with the school marm. Assad is not a school marm. Al-Nusra is not a school marm. The forces that will rise if ISIS is destroyed are nearly as evil as ISIS,” he added.
Sherman said he hopes the president “will put Congress on the spot and ask for an authorization to use force, because as important as it is to work for good governance in the Middle East, we’ve got to respect the United States Constitution.”
“It is not a given that our constitutional structure can be ignored and degraded and pulled apart and that somehow the society will be able to face tougher times than we have now without it completely unraveling,” he said.
In Sherman’s opinion, authorization to use force would include “air power alone” for a period of two to three years “with expedited procedures to reauthorize as this goes forward.”
“The president would still have the authority he has under the war powers act to conduct up to 60 day incursions on the ground, and the only real use for those that I see is to rescue a pilot,” he said.
“I realize that with Special Forces and spotters and whatever we might be more effective in our bombing campaign, but at this point, I don’t think Congress is going to authorize the use of ground troops, and we need to draw the line,” Sherman added.
Sherman predicted that ISIS would not be destroyed in just a few weeks or months.
“I think you have to explain to the American people you can’t always get what you want immediately at a low cost,” he said.
ISIS is already being degraded, Sherman said.
“ISIS was on a roll. They had one military victory after military victory, and there were people talking about them taking Baghdad and Erbil. Now we see that they have had some substantial losses in Iraq,” he said.
ISIS has not suffered losses – and in fact had some gains – in Syria, Sherman noted, “but we’re not bombing in Syria.”
“But we saved the Yazidi community. We protected the Mosul dam. We protected … the Shiite Turkmen, and we protected our friends the Kurds. So in four different important areas, ISIS has been rolled back and defeated, and I wish someone on FOX News would give the president a little credit for that,” Sherman said.
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