Still Think He's A Muslim?

[planosteve]

The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan.

That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama—after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq.

The utter lack of interest in what possible legal authority Obama has to bomb Syria is telling indeed: Empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason (indeed, recall that Obama bombed Libya even after Congress explicitly voted against authorization to use force, and very few people seemed to mind that abject act of lawlessness; constitutional constraints are not for warriors and emperors).

It was just over a year ago that Obama officials were insisting that bombing and attacking Assad was a moral and strategic imperative. Instead, Obama is now bombing Assad’s enemies while politely informing his regime of its targets in advance. It seems irrelevant on whom the U.S. wages war; what matters it that it be at war, always and forever.

Six weeks of bombing hasn’t budged ISIS in Iraq, but it has caused ISIS recruitment to soar. That’s all predictable: the U.S. has known for years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region. If you know that, then they know that. At this point, it’s more rational to say they do all of this not despite triggering those outcomes, but because of it. Continuously creating and strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug. It is what justifies the ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War.

If there is anyone who actually believes that the point of all of this is a moral crusade to vanquish the evil-doers of ISIS (as the U.S. fights alongside its close Saudi friends), please read Professor As’ad AbuKhalil’s explanation today of how Syria is a multi-tiered proxy war. As the disastrous Libya “intervention” should conclusively and permanently demonstrate, the U.S. does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/23/nobel-peace-prize-fact-day-syria-7th-country-bombed-obama/

[kent]

yes. There's no doubt in my mind.

[GFB]

Other than killing Jews..there's nothing Muslims like better..than killing Muslims.

[scarlett~nc]

absolutely !!

[Red Oak]

Of course he is. Both his natural father and adopted father were Moslem.

[Dancer]

Yes.

[BillB]

If he was a Muslim he would say so.
That would get him a lot more votes in this country than not being a Muslim.
I don't think he's anything. He's an amoral opportunist.

[planosteve]

Bush's plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years fell short. Obama is doing his darnest to finish the job on his watch.

[Mark]

If he was a Muslim he would say so.

He has.

[RaisinCain]

Warning your enemy a week ahead of time that you're going to blow up his buildings so that he can move all of his men\ordinance is either (a) treasonous or (b) inept. You decide.

Either way it doesn't make you a butt-kicking machine.

[Red Oak]

Under sharia law the son of a Moslem is a Moslem, period.

[planosteve]

Under sharia law the son of a Moslem is a Moslem, period.

Only his father was a communist agitator from Pittsburg, KS named Frank in his book. His real name is Frank Marshall Davis. I don't think he was Muslim.

[Grassman]

I would like to know if there has been any pork served at the White house in the last six years.

[Red Oak]

Probably not to Moochell, at least not by Barry.

[BigTex]

Unless it has crack in it.