Last Wednesday eleven of the biggest rebel groups in Syria joined together to form the Islamic Alliance, representing 75 percent of the insurgents in the various rebel factions fighting Bashar Assad's government. This included several groups that defected from affiliation with the Free Syrian Army, the faction supported with many words but few deeds by the Obama administration. The new group also announced they intend to impose Islamic Sharia Law in Syria once they get rid of Assad. The alliance is led by Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda affiliated group already designated a terrorist organization. This means they have rejected any Western influence over whatever emerges once Assad is deposed, if he is. Of course Assad is supported by Russia, Iran and the Hezbollah. So whatever the outcome in Syria, it is a lose - lose situation for American interests.
The rebels stated that their reason for forming the alliance was disappointment with the Obama administration's failure to conduct airstrikes punishing Assad for the use of chemical weapons against rebel strongholds, and then Obama's surrender to meaningless negotiations with the Russians regarding the future disposition of Assad's weapons of mass destruction. They were quoted as saying they had "lost all hope in the international community. Bashar al-Assad is killing us, all the West is betraying us, and they want to negotiate with the regime over our blood."
Barack Obama and his administration are the ones to blame for this. Of course it is doubtful the media will do so, but Obama's actions and inactions are clearly making the world a much more dangerous place. Perhaps this development may seem like a minor event to those who blindly believe Obama's bullshit, but it is just the most recent of a series of disastrous events that are establishing a perilous trend. From Tunisia to Yemen to Egypt to Libya to Syria the bad guys are undermining Western interests throughout the Middle East while the United States remains unengaged and loses any influence we once had in the region.
It is almost humorous but even more embarrassing to see how fast Iran has proposed nuclear arms control talks with the US after they saw how easily the Russians rolled over the Obama administration in Syria. And it is not surprising to see Obama and Kerry crow about diplomatic "victories", aided and abetted by the major media co-conspirators, that do nothing but provide cover for the bad guys to continue their nuclear weapons programs under the radar screen. Reagan said trust, but verify. These guys say accommodate, smile for the cameras, then move on to bashing Republicans. The fact is that Syria, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Russia, China and even the UK and France will all give up their WMD's when hell freezes over. But by now all of our adversaries have realized they can get anything they want from Obama by letting him look presidential on television.
Of course the fire Obama has fueled in the Middle East by his inactions will not spread and consume the world until he is gone from office (assuming that he recognizes the two term limit and leaves), at the same time his national security policies will have left us defenseless. The world he and the Democrats are creating for our children - domestic economic decline and inflammatory political polarization accompanied by unthinkable global violence and chaos - is something those who support him should think about long and hard. They are accomplices to this state of affairs.
Modern Western Civilization began to emerge in the 14th century with the Italian Renaissance, followed later by the Reformation (15th), Age of Discovery (late 15th), the Enlightenment (17th), and the American and French revolutions (late 18th). Future historians are likely to set the date of its demise in the middle of this century unless the people in the Western countries pull their heads out and do something about it. At some point we are going to have to draw a line in the sand and mean it. Due to Obama's economic, social and defense policies we are rapidly becoming too weak to do so.
Americans can only maintain our heritage of liberty, justice, and economic progress if the people throw out the current leaders - the ones promoting redistributive economic policies, politically correct social policies, multi-culturalism that discourages assimilation, unilateral disarmament, dependency on government, and capitulation to any country that does not buy Obama's threats. That includes a lot of Republicans in Congress who apparently are just happy to be there and satisfied with the status quo.
Democrats must wake up and repudiate the anti-capitalist, anti-democracy elitists who have taken over their party and our country. If they continue to offer up the Joe Biden's, Hillary Clinton's and Elizabeth Warren's then our country's course will not change, which means we're fucked. It also wouldn't hurt for the Republican Party to purge itself of the rigidly religious authoritarian wing-nuts of the far right who let this all happen by not voting in the last election. The United States and Western Civilization are going up in smoke as people focus on the trees of personal, self-centered social and religious issues while the whole forest is gradually being consumed in flames. Those who are not concerned about the big picture, particularly younger folks, women and those with alternative life styles, may be surprised to find out the hard way that Sharia Law does not care about your happiness or personal feelings.
