RE:  Canadian PM Stephen Harper and Syria

 

Mr. Gray, there are many of us here who would gladly trade our current POTUS for your Canadian PM.  I have always been greatly impressed with Mr. Stephen Harper as he comes out time and again in defense of Israel.  So I would like to request again, friends of Israel, to hold this man and his family up in prayer.

 

• "When it comes to dealing with a war between Israel and a terrorist organization, this country and this government cannot and will never be neutral," Harper said in a speech that drew several standing ovations from the more than 1,000 members of the Jewish human rights group. "This position is rooted in what we have long stood for as a country."

 

As far as arming the Syrian opposition, I fully agree with Mr. Harper's comments below.  And that, in my estimation, suggests more than a "kernel of truth" but rather projects a good grasp of historical/regional/political realities.

 

• "We should not fool ourselves about what's happening in Syria," he said, saying there is "brutality and extremism on both sides."

"To start talking about arming unnamed people whose objectives we don't understand, I think, is extremely risky," Harper said.

 

You said in your post that we "cannot sit and do nothing."  Why not?  The Arab League, United Arab Emirates and Jordan have already aligned themselves with the Syrian rebels.  Personally (and probably in the minority here), I'm beginning to resent America's continual intrusion into the affairs of Islamic entities that hate us with the extremely naïve notion that a democracy can be achieved.  The only stable democratic ally in the Middle East is Israel.   

 

Another man who seems to "get it" is our former ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton (5.22.13):

 

• "The administration’s failures regarding the Ba’athist dictatorship, in Syria’s civil strife and more broadly, are tied inextricably to its even more-dangerous misperception of Russia.  Not only did Obama take office pledging to press the “reset” button with Moscow, but just last year he told then-President Dmitry Medvedev, in a famous “off-mic” comment, that Russia would see more “flexibility” from his administration after the November election.

When Assad’s brutal crackdown against the “Arab Spring” began in Syria, Obama might have swiftly identified pro-Western opposition leaders to assist in ousting the regime. This would have dealt Iran a strategic setback, eliminating both one of its key regional puppets and its main conduit for sending arms to Hezbollah.

But because Obama and Clinton feared that confronting Iran inside Syria, even indirectly, would endanger their plan to negotiate over Tehran’s nuclear-weapons program, they did nothing. Now, Syria’s opposition is rife with terrorists and Islamic radicals; pro-Western elements are hard to detect, let alone sustain. (And of course, nuclear talks with Iran have led nowhere.)"

http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/team_obama_endless_syria_bungling_LsJtEdFSW7yihaaBYdrQOK#axzz2U62YkL8N

 

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Stephen_Harper.aspx

 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!