A ONCE REASONABLE CONSERVATIVE WRITER SUCCUMBS TO THE HAWKS

…The “Right Turn” Blog writer, Jennifer Rubin

 

Once again, instead of offering solutions, only criticism from the right of those that do have ideas.

 

**Please note: In my future articles I will try to remember to only refer to ISIL or ISIS as “DAESH”.  Daesh is an Arabic word in its own right that  means “a group of bigots who impose their will on others”.  It can also mean  “to trample and crush”.  The term “Islamic State” was chosen by the terrorists to legitimize their operation as an actual caliphate or the beginning of a new Muslim empire.  By using the word DAESH, this takes away the legitimacy of the organization as being a real “state”, and the terrorists hate the term.  In fact, the head of ISIL threatened “to cut the tongue out of anyone who publicly used the acronym Daesh”.  Instead, they must refer to the group by its full name: ”the Islamic State”.  Going forward, “Daesh” is my new word for extreme Islamic terrorists.

 

 

Now, moving right along, some weeks ago I wrote that I had read a number of the articles from the conservative Post writer Jennifer Rubin, who also writes the “Right Turn” Blog for the Post.  I had complemented Ms. Rubin saying that she seemed to be a more reasonable conservative as compared to some of the GOP clowns or Republican hot-heads that only know how to spout their Republican talking points.

 

Well, I am now removing any positive accolades I may have said about Ms. Rubin's offerings.

 

In her recent article criticizing Hillary Clinton’s recent speech on National Security, Ms. Rubin sounded like those conservative hawks that only know how to start foreign wars, instead of how to finish them.

 

Ms. Rubin goes on and on in her article saying that “Clinton supported and effectuated the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, giving fertile ground from which the Islamic State sprouted.” 

 

Of course, there was no mention that Obama was first elected because the American public wanted America out of the longest US wars ever, and wars that we should never have started.

 

She talks conveniently forgetting that the original withdrawal dates of our troops from Iraq were not from Obama.  The time-line of the actual withdrawal was first presented by George W. Bush.

 

Clinton offered three main elements of her strategy for dealing with Daesh**, and Rubin called Clinton’s proposals as “goals not strategies”.  But if Rubin would have listened a bit longer and closer, she would have heard some of both the tactics and the strategies behind her three elements of dealing with the terrorists.  Of course, none of the many Republican candidates, besides Senator Lindsay Graham, have given any specifics for how they would handle Daesh.  That is, unless you count Donald Trump’s loud claim the he would “Bomb the crap out of them!”

 

Rubin blames the terrorists in Iraq on the premature US troop withdrawal.  However, she neglects the truth that the original Daesh leaders actually came from the suddenly-unemployed members of Saddam’s Baath Party after W’s people kicked them out and took all of their weapons. 

 

Even after WWII, the key administrative Nazi personnel in Germany, that were not part of Hitler’s direct staff, were kept on their jobs just for to getting everyone in Germany back to work. 

 

But no,no, no, not Dubya’s men.  They fired everyone and took away their weapons.  Then, they installed a Shia as the Iraqi Prime Minister, and the PM Malaki would not include any former Sunni personnel in the government or the military. 

 

 

No wonder the Sunni’s went off and started their own army against the new Iraqi government.

Rubin goes after Clinton for wanting to develop a Coalition of Nations to go after Daesh, while as with so many Republican hawks, she once again wants more American “boots-on-the-ground”  As with “The Donald”, Rubin also wants to just “Bomb the crap” out of them, as if we weren’t already doing that, especially since both Russia and France are now “Bombing the crap” out of them.

 

She says Clinton, “supports the Iran deal which is a boost to Iran and surrogates like Assad to whom some of the $150B in released Nuclear Sanctions money will flow.” 

 

She neglects the fact that none of that sanction money will be released until the United Nation’s Atomic Energy Committee has  confirmed that the Iranians are doing what they said they would do for deactivating their nuclear bomb enrichment efforts.

 

Jennifer Rubin has unfortunately become pretty much what those reporters at Fox News have become.  It’s really pretty pathetic.

 

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