Thursday, May 31, 2012

The problem with Syria and Mitt Romney's stand

There has been a great deal of talk about Syria lately, and once again, Mitt Romney has no idea of what he's talking about. And I say this as a man who spent 20 years in the military: There is no good plan for Syria. Don't believe me? That's fine, but on Morning Joe Wednesday morning, even Romney backers couldn't say what would work, what plan was at least 75% sure to succeed. That's right, there doesn't seem to be any plan that will get rid of the current regime and stop the violence. Well, maybe one, but that would take hundreds of thousands of troops in Syria. And for what? Maybe it would topple the regime, but it's likely that tens of thousands of troops would be killed to topple the regime. And that's still a maybe for toppling the regime. So when there are no good plans, what does anyone do? They wait for a better time, doing what they can in the mean time. And in this case, that's exactly what the Obama Administration is doing. Several Ambassadors have been expelled from Western Countries, and action has been taken in the U.N. to stem the violence, although Russia has blocked military action. So what does Mitt Romney say? In a nutshell,  The lack of action by the Obama Administration to pressure Russia to stop the Syrian regime from their rule of terror and the administration's refusing to arm the rebels shows how weak on Foreign Policy the Obama Administration is. But Romney's own spokesperson said that no more pressure could be put on Russia, and that Arab States are already arming the rebels. But you keep spouting off against what the Obama Administration is doing. The problem with your stance on Syria is that your own spokesperson don't know what it means, or how to accomplish it. And I doubt that you do either, and that's the real problem with your stand on Syria.    

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