Our leader’s address to the nation last night left me feeling with an emptiness of  success in that you cannot let someone else fight your battles.  According to the Arabic proverb, “If you honor and respect a noble man, he will become your friend, but if you honor and respect a villain, he will rise up against  you.”  

One view of diplomacy deemed misguided by leaders is to abandon one’s friends and court one’s enemies is the assumption that the friend is yours and will not abandon you.  The United States deserted the Shah for the Ayatollah’s Revolutionary Guards; it abandoned Mubarak for the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist Mohamed Morsi; and it has abandoned Iraq and Afghanistan to domestic chaos, growing terrorism and the approaching Islamist takeover. We have taken so many winning steps forward and then have abandoned the cause and then have resulted in losing what we gained with this leader.  

Now we are going to train the very people that we would not help last year who fought in Syria against a regime, Assad, that we have abandoned for what.  Why are we so eager to rid the world of Assad when the very people who are fighting Assad are even worse?  We are constantly helping the very people that we are fighting – the Muslim Brotherhood.  We have all of these factions in the Middle East, all called by a different name, who in the end are all one group – fighting for  Islam – all with a different agenda.  Terrorism needs to be struck hard and all the advantages of warfare need to be used – wiretapping, drones, targeted killings and sanctions against all terrorist groups and countries, such as Iran, that sponsor terrorism.

It is necessary that Congress be a part of the decisions in this next process of war because this leader and his administration are inexperienced and their ideology has not convinced me their solutions are in the best interest of America because of the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood who are a part of his administration.

Who is criticizing the Western world’s actions by criticizing its actions against terrorism?  Terrorism is being conducted in the Middle East and those countries who are involved have to help in the fight against these terrorists. They cannot continue to expect  America to carry their full load.  America   does not mind helping; but, the countries must follow by helping with their military, equipment, and money for success to  happen.

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