Obama claimed in a letter that it was in the US national security interest to send the troops .

He needs to explain that .

I’ll take that, Wallace: because the Syrian regime protects Israel, a country she deeply cares about secondary to no other, including this country, and does not mind the so called slaughter if it means maintaining the status quo of ‘stable enough’ state the region is in

Syria “protects Israel?”

Wow. Just…wow.

The answer is actually quite simple.  It’s easier to defeat people fighting with machetes than those with automatic weapons, heavy armament and air defence systems.

LOlolOl0ololOLOLOOLOLLLLOLHAHAHahahAHhHAhAHAhahAhAHAhhhhahahahahahahaha

Makes sense to me.

i still want to know why we’re still in libya.
zero said we wouldn’t be there for more than a week
6 months ago. wtf? is there anything that this guy can’t
get away with?

When did they attack us?

Please tell me you don’t vote.

HHAHAhahahHAhahahHAhahahAHHAhahahhHHAHAHHAHaHAHhLOLOLOllololololOLOLOLOLOL

(I wasn’t finished laughing)

Why didn’t Wallace ask this scroungy Californian Senator, why troops aren’t being sent to our most dangerous area, the southern border of the U.S.?!

OBUMA IS A WAR CRIMINAL AND A WAR MONGER  WHY ARE PEOPLE NOT PROTESTING THIS LIER IN THE WHITE HOUSE    WHY ARE THE LEFTIST DEMOC RATS LETTING THIS CORRUPT LYER GET AWAY WITH STARTING US WARS WITHOUT CONGRESS APPROVING       I GUESS WHEN ITS A LEFTIST AMERICA HATER STARTING WARS ITS OK WITH THE DEMOC RATS  IT SHOULD NOT BE OK WITH ANYBODY   GET OUT OF ALL THESE COUNTRIES PROTECT AND HELP OUT OWN  PUT THE TROOPS ON OUR BORDERS AND LEAVE THE REST OF THE WORLD ALONE

the syrians would slaughter every last jew if they could  as would every muslim …what are you talking about????? 

LOL YA RITE  HES AFTER SOMETHING OVER THERE OIL MAYBE

Come on, Obama and the left can do anything because they have a right…er, because they know better…er, because they’re smarter…er, because they are on the left.  (Notice all the outcry from the media: “not”). 

Today it’s Uganda:  Luxemburg, you “bank haven,” you’re next.  Then it’s the Republic of San Marino; Liechtenstein you’re on the list too: Andorra, start quaking in your boots; and will move in for the kill on Suriname.

It’s the “Obama Defense Doctrine”; invade before they become a threat to the US! 

After all, our national security is at stake!

Yes, it’s time for another Obama Nobel Peace Prize!

Rightly or wrongly, the belief in Tel Aviv is that the current regime will be replaced by an off shoot of a brotherhood-backed regime.

They would rather have this secular regime than the uncertainty an toppled Alawites Assad regime would bring. And yes, this regime has always been in behind the scenes cooperation since they both have a common enemy, Islamists

Get off your Fox News flat screen TV’s for an hour a day and read people, read

The Assad regime is seen as a pragmatic regime & is not Islamic-suicidal nor a jihadist regime. Not to say that if toppled that is what will replace it. I personally don’t think observing the situation and listening to their leaders and what they state their plan for the country is (democracy). But Israel, and us, are apprehensive & prefer the known than the unknown. Even if it comes at a cost of high human toll. Just look at who we backed in the region for almost a century

In the 80′s a similar uprising was crushed by Assad’s father. The uprising was turned out to be a pure islamists revolt where 10′s of thousands were killed. Those in the uprising had a list of grievances that include the soft stance the Assad regime has with Israel.

So, yes, the current Syrian regime is seen as essential in keeping some semblance of stability on one of Israel’s borders

Leeme guess…you studied islam in the 60′s when it was all the rage?

Uganda has oil. Just like Libya has oil.
George Soros has ties to both of these countries.
Just like with Petrobras. Soros invests hundreds of millions then Obama guarantees 2 billion in loans.
Soros says….”cha ching”.

Chris Wallace asked Diane Feinstein this question to catch her off guard and succeeded. Feinstein gathered herself and told him what she knew and the president was following up to help stop wide-spread carnage. That’s the bottom line, and i’m sticking to it! Let’s not get caught in she-said-he-said!

The difference is Obama or some top campaign supporter saw the movie ‘The Machine Gun Preacher.’ 

The slaughter there has been going on for years.  The sudden interest is most likely political.

Have you no memory of the “Six Day War” in 1967?  Syria was defeated!  Israel seized the Golan Heights!  The only reason that Syria has not attacked Israel since then is because they know Israel would win!  Israel also bombed Syria’s nuclear facility that was under construction with the aid of North korea in the Fall of 2007. They are mortal enemies.

You do not have to shout!  This is a civil discussion.

Just say NO! to Obama’s war against GAY’S and for BIG OILL!

Oct/14/2009/ Uganda proposed Anti Homosexuality bill,aka the”kill the gay bill” if passed it would introduc the DEATH PENALTY!!

Oil exploration began in ugandas  northwestern Lake Albert basin 10 years ago.
Uganda’s Energy Ministry estimates they have over 2 billion barrels of oil.
Production is due to start in 2013-14.

Boy o boy Obama is going to get it NOW!!:) 

George Soros

Arrrrrrgh!

My God I saw this one.  This woman has been in Washington for 18 years and she still can’t see talk isn’t working & won’t work with Iran. What babble… but she made a lot of money…

Heard that, would really like his explanation too, however he seems to sing and move to his own tune. Jive you know. One thing for sure if he keeps us in wars all over the place, we are left wide open, is that his purpose?

Read what?  Inspire Magazine????  You’re an idiot, Syria has done nothing but strengthen it’s relationship with Iran during the last several years, you know about Iran don’t you the country that wants to see Israel removed from the face of the earth!  Beyond that they have served as a conduit between Iran and Venezuela in helping to set up Iranian munition factories and military camps in this hemisphere.  Venezuela has between 25 and 50 such factories.  Not to mention training camps as Iran has been importing and training operatives in Venezuela as well.  

Maybe you should get off inspire and do some reading yourself, here’s a reading list for you..

http://www.irantracker.org/foreign-relations/syria-iran-foreign-relations

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5727

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-21/world/venezuela.flights.iran_1_flights-islamic-revolutionary-guards-syria?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.realite-eu.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=9dJBLLNkGiF&b=2294739&ct=7568999

When is this worthless Senator ever on-guard?!! Come, take a look at the once proud and beautiful state of California and them tell me again about how she gathers herself…..come on 2012!!

Only an idiot would say what you said. Syria hasn’t been a hotbed for Muslim fundamentalists, but they are not friends of Israel. Do you remember the Yom Kippur war, or the Six Days war? Syria was against Israel in both of those. They also mobilized troops in the 1980′s when Israel went into southern Lebanon after the Muslims who were launching rocket attacks on Israel from there.

You must just love making up ridiculous statements, because no one can be this dumb.

My concern is for the 100 troops Obama is committing there. This is another Mogadishu in the making. They are going to be the few against thousands. They will have no armor, no artillery, no air support, no medical support, no supply lines, and no chance of surviving. By making this announcement in the media he has just signed their death warrants. 100 men going to a Ugandan Little Big Horn.

Another sign that this man is not fit to lead our troops or our nation. 

The wore liar is spelled LIAR.  It can be spelled OBAMA.  Or it can be spelled ANYTHING A MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SAYS TO ANYBODY ABOUT ANYTHING.

dsgspm,

don’t listen to doodoo…
he is a racist liar who simply gets pleasure from trying to put down others…
he is a pathetic bully!!!
Simply say what you want and ignore the racist clowns like doodoo

What good would that do.  Feinstein is a member of the Democratic Party, therefore the first thing out of her mouth is a lie.  The second thing out of her mouth is another lie.  The third thing out of her mouth is still another lie.  I do believe that Wallace was attempting to save us the bother of having to listen to this mealy mouth liberal lie to him and to the American people.   

this man isn’t fit to be a community organizer!!!

You are such an idiot that you sent a message to someone to not pay attention to doodadio, addressed to doodadio.

Prove I am lying or a racist. You are the biggest liar here fake submariner. Can you hear me now?

You think it is cute to play games with my screen name? How about I take liberties with yours, mtclayaiken?

You are not even smart enough to reply to dsgspm instead of me. Pathetic low life loser.

Can You Hear Me NOW?

community organizer

Arrrrrrgh!

LIER IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Arrrrrrgh! Lier Arrrrrrgh?
DEMOC RATS
Arrrrrrgh!
LEFTIST AMERICA HATER
Arrrrrrgh!

zero
Arrrrrrgh!

Jive you know.

As in mocking the fact that he is black?

or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVjITlgqlHo

The ‘Syrian Regime’…..would slaughter any Muslim as well, if it meant keeping control of the country….evident in the killings of its own people now, so not just Jews!

OMG

Baahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 Post of the day.

This is truly concerning to me.  Not only are we sending troops to ANOTHER country, when we’re already in mulitple places, but we’re only sending 100?

I’m getting that Somalia feeling and it’s scary.  I just don’t see us sending in troops unless they’re supported.  I also don’t think that it’s enough to go ‘oh but this time you can shoot back if you need to’.   Oh hey thanks for that.  It’s just fine, then.

Jesus.

The survivalist instinct of the current regime even if it means enforcing the cold-peace that is in place now by killing its own citizens is what we seem to like about the regime. The alternative, if it were up to the Arab street, would be an all out war. Who wins does not matter. Death is considered martyrdom.

From that perspective, the current regime is considered a stablizing element being predictable in that it is first and foremost interested in holding on to power. Think if a sunni brotherhood-dominated ruling party, which would have cozier relationship with Hamas, ending up ruling the country

Not making case for Israel, far from it. Could care less. But that is the thinking in foreign policy makers circles. The last thing Israel wants is another front of uncertainty in addition to its Egyptian front where it now issues apologies to the new Egyptian-street-represented Egypt every other week just to maintain a semblance of Mubarak era lack of volatility

& btw Zionist literature written by racists does not count as objective reading material. Not going to litter the place with links but find yourself some objective journalistic sources fitting what you read into the bigger picture

We’re not recounting history here like you and the others on this thread are doing.. completely missing the point in the process

Again we’re not recounting history, read my response to Florida Fedup’s comment up in the thread

I don’t disagree with this last post, in fact I would say that you are pretty much correct as since the fall of Egypt and Libya I think that the Middle East has become more dangerous for Israel.  Your last post is a far cry from the original post where you said “the Syrian regime protects Israel, a country she deeply cares about second to no other, including this country”

Assad does not currently seek a war with Israel, and his remaining in power offers Israel some degree of assurance that she will not have to soon worry about war with Syria..  this I agree with you on but Assad does not love Israel, to the contrary, he would smite her if he could.  What you say about the Muslim Brotherhood I also agree with as we are already seeing the slaughter of Jews and Christians in Egypt…  The fall of Egypt and Libya have made the Middle East less stable and the fall of Syria will add to that instability, on this I think that you and I can agree. 

The Ugandan government has been almost entirely ineffectual in securing sovereign control over the production from the country’s oil fields, and the consensus among everyone affected is that this shortcoming is owing in some part (the Ugandan government says in some large critical part) to the LRA. So there’s no inconsistency between your suggestion that the initiative is based to some degree and the reasons provided by the White House. We’re free to suspect that the White House would not have sent in what are described as ‘trainers” but for this fact involving lack of sovereign control over that oil, but I fail to see why this is in any way the equivalent of the Bush administration misleading Congress into the Iraq War, firstly because in the case of Uganda, American oil companies can point to contracts with the Ugandan government involving that oil, whereas in the case of Iraq, ther were sanctions preventing such contracts, and secondly this is a case of the government of Uganda having invited in U.S. troops, versus the lack of any such invitation that characterized the invasion of Iraq to depose it’s dictator.  In fact, I fail to see why it’s in any way at all a bad thing for the President to do as he has, given the range of American interests at risk here, including the national security component of securing oil to fuel American armed forces. 

Obama sure does love to start wars.

Holy shit, a story on Mediaite that is critical of Democrats. That’s a rare thing. 

Actually, I agree in large part with dsgspm’s point here. Syria, like Iraq previously, is controlled by a secular regime which controls its population not through religion, but through brutal repression. In my opinion, Assad embraces the old adage ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, believing that as long as Israel exists, the most extremists of the muslim population will concentrate their full attention on her and not his governing rule.

Isn’t ironic that Feinstein is a stanch supporter of Israel protecting it’s borders, and being overrun by parasites but, gives a rats-ass about ours!! How this bag of sh#$ woman stays in office is truly a mystery.

How does Feinstein keep getting reelected as a United States Senator from California?  That’s easy, she lives in a state where 2 out of every 3 voters in the state is a Liberal Democrat.  When it comes to running for the United States Senate to represent conservatives from California, conservatives might as well save their money.  Knowing this, it shouldn’t surprise you that Barbara Boxer is the other Senator.  California liberal voters will vote Party over substance every single time they get the chance. 

Is Wallace a moron or something? Uganda is an ally and asked us for help. Syria is not an ally and would rightfully view any troops we that we may send as an act of war. But it doesn’t surprise me most of the critics are unable to comprehend the difference.

Duh, wouldn’t sending troops to Syria be an act of war? Can’t you see the difference?

RepublicanParrot has it right! You need to be a parrot to answer back people who think on your level

Good god, do you have any more simple minded dishonest rubbish you need to get off your chest? You sound like a child repeating the same lines over and over again as if that would make things come true.

Ever heard of air power and helocopters?

Wow, just when I thought the righties were being stupid on this issue, we have a leftist reaching for the brass ring of stupidity & paranoia. 
Let me break it down really simple: Uganda – friend – troops sent NOT act of warSyria – not friend = troops sent act of war

They never tried to kill all the Jews in the past, unlike Christians

What are they going to do, fill their water bottles and jerry cans with crude?

Sure, but they will not be there. How are they going to provide 24 hour coverage of Ugandan air space in order to effectively provide the air support you think is going to save them? I have experience in this matter and I know as a practical application the air cover is never able to be there early enough in an engagement to protect a small force like this. Do you know where Uganda is?

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/africa.html

Even with aircraft carriers in the area, and a constant air patrol it would be very difficult to keep these guys alive on the ground. At present there is no air power in the area. The President did not give the go-live date for this deployment, but it is a political move that is meant to distract us from the problems at home. The fact it just happens to be bordering Kenya may have some personal motive for Obama as well.

By the way, it is spelled helicopter, not helocopter.

It does show that the President is woefully uninformed of the power of 100 men armed with rifles. Against the potential enemy strength they will be facing this is a recipe for disaster. He doesn’t have a grasp of how to conduct a military operation on this scale.

Someone at the Pentagon should have told him he is dooming these 100 brave soldiers. They probably tried to, but Barack says they have to have some skin in the game…

Like you are unable to tell this is a death sentence for 100 soldiers. How about you walking point for them?

 You’re a liar and a Phony Soldier who lied about his military service and education.  Your hatred of Republicans and Conservatives also makes you a bigot and a moron.Everyone here should be told who you are, liar.”TMP”

I don’t think so, they are not just going to go out in bush by themselves and get ambushed. Besides they have the support of the Ugandan government & military. While sending them into Syria would be a death sentence since the whole Syrian army would repulse them

Morrisminor, you are the only one in this discussion who believes that he is so right that everybody else posting here has to agree with you in order for you to consider them honest posters. It is obvious that you’re a liberal poster who is easily disturbed by other people’s opinions.  The world doesn’t rotate around your opinions regardless of what you believe.  If you believe the world should, then you are going to be easily upset when you read the posts on this page.   

The Ugandans themselves have some air power. I seriously don’t think they are going to need ta high  level of air support nor are they going to stupidly expose themselves to an ambush
The Kenyan remark really makes you sound like a mindless birthoon.
Finally, yeah I know it’s helicopter, I even tried to correct it earlier. But don’t be a patronizing petty little twit about it. It doesn’t make your argument any more cogent.

What experience do you have to base your opinion on? I served in Vietnam, and I know what I am talking about here. We had air support in country and you had about a twenty minute wait for a response to threats on the ground, and that is a mighty long twenty minutes when the enemy is unloading everything they have on you. We also had a lot more support around us and the number of people killed or maimed for life was still too high. Like the South Vietnamese Army, Ugandan troops will cut and run if the resistance gets to be too stiff for them – they are asking for our help for a reason: they can’t stop the rebellion on their own.

Who said anything about Syria? I didn’t and you are getting tangential like all liberals do when they can’t defend their own positions. Sorry, but that trick doesn’t work on me.

These 100 soldiers are being sacrificed for no reason by your President and you refuse to accept it.
I hope it doesn’t come to that, but the odds are not in favor of this not turning into a disaster.

Your argument is typical liberal Obama support, and I doubt you have any experience or knowledge of history to back you up.

“Chris Wallace Asks Sen. Dianne Feinstein Why U.S. Is Sending Troops To Uganda But Not Syria” so the title of the thread concerns Syria too but somehow I mentioning Syria make me tangential, like “all liberals do”?  I don’t over generalize, but you really are the classic paranoid dishonest right wing pig.
Sorry, but your experience is Nam does not make you any more knowledgeable than I am of what their mission parameters and orders are so I seriously doubt they are going to let the troops walk into an ambush. Also, from what little I know, the NVA back then in Nam was way more effective & better equipped than the LRA is today.

By the way doo doo head, Obama is OUR president. What a jerk.

 I am not an Obama supporter, as well as I have a much better grasp of history than some reactionary crackpot who makes birther noises about Kenya and can’t accept Obama is everyone’s president. Since Obama never lived in Kenya and has little to none connection to it, the father he never met is dead, why even bring that in? You make no sense

All you have done here is call her and all Democrats liars then, which BTW is a lie, then insult her. This has nothing to do with your politics, but your posts and points are all rubbish. You have added nothing to the discussion. You are a foolish windbag, your opinion means nothing. Your opinions don’t disturb me, they are laughable trash just like the contents of your head.

Yeah we all know how dangerous a threat Luxembourg, a NATO treaty member, is

Yeah we all know how dangerous a threat Luxembourg, a NATO treaty member, is

Yeah we all know how dangerous a threat Luxembourg, a NATO treaty member, is

Petrobas!
Arrrrgh!

Many years ago, for about two years, I lived just across the border from the “Grand Duchy of Luxembourg” (aka “Luxemburg” or “Luxembourg”) in Germany. 

One of the “jokes” at the time was: “What do you call the Luxembourg Army when fully mobilized?” 

Ans:  The committee.

Many years ago, for about two years, I lived just across the border from the “Grand Duchy of Luxembourg” (aka “Luxemburg” or “Luxembourg”) in Germany. 

One of the “jokes” at the time was: “What do you call the Luxembourg Army when fully mobilized?” 

Ans:  The committee.

Okay
to give you your due, it is good to be skeptical and concerned about all this. But we have our military and intelligence people all around the world doing all sorts of dangerous things so to bring up the ghost of Nam every time is a bit disingenuous.

Didn’t you just back up Dale Hogue with your dogmatic Liberal answer?

After reading “morrismino’s” remarks, I get the mental picture of him yelling and spitting at the same time. Poor guy, he really needs to calm down and lay off the personal attacks that only serve to make him look foolish, and wrong! Mostly….WRONG!

Of course there’s a difference. How about letting the UN take care of it. Isn’t that their stated obligation? When the hell were we designated the worlds police department?

Chris Wallace Asks Sen. Dianne Feinstein Why U.S. Is Sending Troops To Uganda But Not Syria”
The question seems reasonable. Why do you disagree with it? Uganda is in the process of attacking peaceful demonstrators. Are American troops to be used to help put down those peaceful demonstrators? What the hell are we doing in a foreign civil war? Obimbo apologizes for American imperialism while becoming it’s biggest enforcer!! Idiocy on any level!

Were you aware the John F. Kennedy sent only unarmed advisors to Vietnam in order to instruct the South Vietnamese how to conduct war against the North Vietnamese.  After Kennedy was killed in Dallas, the new president, Lyndon Johnson, sent armed troops to do the fighting alongside the South Vietnamese.  From that point it escalated again and again and again.  Chances are that our troops will be sent in to do the fighting for those who should do their own fighting.

And you, with your superior intellect and knowledge, are the only one posting here who knows the difference?  FDR sent shiploads of war material to the English and the Chinese in 1940 and 1941 — quite some time before December 7th.  The Japanese and the Germans felt that FDR’s actions were acts of war.  And, of course, you know what these actions cost the United States.  

Morrisminor, why all the name calling?  This should be an intellectual discussion, but you seem bent on making it a namecalling street fight. 

morrisminor, I’m afraid I missed the birther comments about Kenya, so I’m flying blind for the moment.  Obama, I agree is the president, and his actions should be self-explanatory, but they aren’t so that’s why we are having this intellectual discussion.  The name calling serves no purpose.  I’m sure that you wouldn’t be foolish enough to use this name calling technique if you were sitting across the table from any poster who has an opinion that differs from yours.

Obama has extended family from Kenya. Look it up – or are you incapable of doing your own research?

My point is no one plans to be ambushed. There are no Ambush Zone signs, and when you are on their home turf the enemy has the advantage, but I wouldn’t expect you to understand that.

Your ignorance about military operations in a hostile area make you seem mindless. Nobody who has ever been on the receiving end of an ambush got in there stupidly, and for you to suggest that makes your credibility on this subject nil.

Call me all the names you want – liberals always resort to that when the talk BS and get caught – especially when they/you realize you can’t buffalo your way out.

dood, these people are always experts at something they know nothing about.

“TMP”

I read the article, and I was only concerned with the reality of deploying 100 American soldiers into a place where they will have no American support to back them up.

Are you aware of the MAAG Vietnam?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Assistance_Advisory_Group

Vietnam started exactly like this.

My experience in Vietnam as a member of the Army Security Agency qualifies me as uniquely knowledgeable in this area so you should be trying to think of somewhere else to go with your argument.

For some reason when I give you the honest situation that parallels my own experience you think it is a flashback or paranoia. Too bad you are so ill informed. Just remember you engaged me on this subject. None of the firefights I was in was planned, they are spontaneous events and if you had any idea about being in a hostile fire zone you would not have a problem understanding that basic concept.

What little you know is right. The NVA had plenty of firepower when in company or brigade strength. Do we have any credible intel on the armament stats of the LRA? No, we don’t. The knowledge base on the LRA is inadequate, and adding to that the Ugandan forces have not been able to quell the combat capability of the LRA I wouldn’t call the Ugandans a reliable force to protect our soldiers.

This deal is a mistake, and the 100 men sent there will pay the price for Obama’s foolishness.

I served in military intelligence and I am well aware of the global footprint. That in itself is of concern. I don’t consider this bringing up the ghost of Nam – that is what your side did on Iraq and Afghanistan as I recall.

This is a very stupid idea, worthy of Clinton and Somalia. You do remember Blackhawk Down don’t you? Whenever you send a small unit into hostile territory, and haven’t got the heavy firepower to protect them casualties will be high. It’s a fact that has been demonstrated in every war the United States has ever fought.

The message is this: don’t commit military assets to any deployment when you cannot reinforce or provide on the spot fire support at a moment’s notice. Doing so is unwise and never turns out well.

No doubt. It is funny how they trust the Ugandans, (who haven’t historically been allies of the US), with the lives of 100 soldiers they don’t know.

dood, no SOG member was ever killed in Nam while they were training indigenous forces. They even had full air support.

“TMP”

Riiiight.

Sentiments will change when the first dead are received at Dover.

“TMP”

You know it. It is a shame that it takes that to wake these fools up.

Almost no one saw our brothers and sisters come back. They were trucked around like so much freight. There’s a program sponsored by Vets to put faces to the names on the wall. Did you hear about that?

“TMP”

I did, and I am in favor of it. The Wall seems cold to me, and unless you know who it is the names – other than the sheer volume of them – seem to get lost. Putting a face on that will humanize it, and I think that people need that to fully grasp the tragedy of so many lost.

Feinstein is an old bag that has full gray hair and a closet full of phony hair color.