Shorter Rand Paul: "What's a Little Gas Genocide Between Friends?" . . .

WTF?  Fucking clown.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday portrayed the current conflict in Syria as one between the government of President Bashar Al Assad, who Paul said "has protected Christians for a number of decades," and "Islamic rebels," who Paul said "have been attacking Christians" and are aligned with Al Qaeda.

"I think the Islamic rebels winning is a bad idea for the Christians, and all of a sudden we'll have another Islamic state where Christians are persecuted," Paul said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/rand-paul-syria_n_3852644.html


Let's set aside, for the sake of this discussion, Rand Paul's Christian/Islamic Rebels cultural war speculative insight - primarily for the reason that it's a neophyte analysis of a very complicated situation and Senator Paul does the broader debate a disservice with his juvenile musings.

More to the point of Paul's statement -- call The Gadfly picky if you must, but couldn't we allow the Obama administration, now that they have made the correct decision to defer to the people's representatives for permission to take military action in Syria, the benefit of performing their due diligence without the right wing loon political hacks praising the thug, who if our intelligence people are to be believed, slaughtered 1500 of his own people with nerve gas?

Jeebus fucking kripes.  And at risk of incurring the ire of the Daddy Paul bots, The Gadfly observes that the baby Paul apple doesn't fall far from the wing nut tree - does it?

The Gadfly remembers a time when a popular trio of female musicians, while performing in London, voiced displeasure with then President Bush's decision to wage war in Iraq.  The right wingers in this country were mouth foaming apoplectic, and in full freak-out mode, organized public burnings of the artist's CD's and also cowed many radio stations in to black listing their music.

Just try to imagine, if you can, the wingnut hew and outcry if this situation were reversed and alternatively involved a President John McCain dealing with the Syria issue in Obama's stead and a Democratic Senator, oh - let's say Barbara Boxer, praising Syrian tyrant Assad while President McCain was in the midst of performing his presidential duties?  Yeah .. that's what The Gadfly thought.

All the more reason to be suspicious of the motives of the conservative right in this country and equally suspicious of who their loyalties truly lie with.



----TFG