The Senate vote last week authorizing aid to the Syrian rebels fighting ISIL (ISIS) was a strange vote, bipartisan, which is rare, but 22 Senators of both parties voting NO!
This included such progressive Democrats as Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and Chris Murphy of Connecticut. It also included Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
On the other hand, it included Republicans such as Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, and Rand Paul of Kentucky, all Tea Party types.
The first list of seven Progressive Democrats and one Independent is highly respected by this author and blogger, and it makes him pause in his own support of the concept of starting a war against Islamic terrorism, what he sees as the beginning of World War III!
Of course, other Progressive Democrats DID support the majority vote, and it makes one wonder who is right, and who will be judged as correct by history, and it could affect the Presidential Election of 2016 and beyond, as, for instance, Hillary Clinton backing the Iraq War can be, and has been used, against her, and could be a problem in 2016!
These are difficult times, and we face a crisis of massive proportions, and trying to figure out what is best for the nation puts one in torment daily!
The way I see it, they declared war on us on 9/11.
I heard on CNN that ISIS in Iraq overran an Iraqi army base near Baghdad.
Only thing the Iraqi army seems to be good at is surrendering. Any one remember how they bowed down after they were driven out of Kuwait in the first Iraq War?
So much for the local boots on the ground.
Oh my god, is my immediate reaction!
ISIS’s worst nightmare: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/world/meast/uae-female-fighter-pilot/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
ISIL’s/ISIS’s biggest weakness: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/one-isils-biggest-strengths-also-biggest-weakness/
Firefight between Kurds and ISIS on the Syria-Turkey border.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/09/26/ath-black-live-isis-fighting-turkey-border-refugees.cnn.html
Britain, Belgium and Denmark have joined the coalition.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/26/world/meast/isis-syria-iraq/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Of the three cable networks, CNN is the only one where reporting dominates commentary.
Some guy in Oklahoma beheaded a woman. There’s no link to terrorism but it does raise questions.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/26/us/oklahoma-beheading/index.html?hpt=hp_t2