Bush Neocon Dan Senor Worries That Syria Vote Means That Congress Won’t Back Iran Strike

[Purveyor]

Neoconservative Dan Senor, who worked to spin the Iraq war for the Bush administration, said on Sunday that he was worried that if Congress votes against military action in Syria then lawmakers may refuse to use military force against countries like Iran for the rest of President Barack Obama’s term.

During a panel discussion on ABC News, Senor pointed out that there were two camps within the Republican Party.

“One is sort of the Rand Paul camp: loosely defined, isolationists, doesn’t want to be engaged in the world no matter what Obama says, can’t be moved,” he explained. “There’s another camp… which has been supportive of engagement in the world, but they say they don’t trust Obama, they don’t have confidence in him, they don’t think he competent.”

“And the problem with that argument is it means that they’re not going to be for any military force anywhere for the next three years,” Senor warned. “President Obama is our commander-in-chief for the next three years. If they’re saying they don’t have confidence in him to execute, what message does that send to Tehran, where we want to be presenting a credible threat of military force in order to get them to stop the nuclear program?”

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[backscatter712]

1. He says that like it's a bad thing... n/t

[arcane1]

2. Yes, because the ability to vaporize their country with OUR nukes isn't enough of a deterrant.

We have to show that we'll also fire a mere Tomahawk missile at them!

[silvershadow]

3. Gee...ya think? nt

[jsr]

4. Maureen Dowd on Senor:

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/maureen-dowd-neocons-slither-back-romney-and-ryan-are-taking-their-cues-from-hawks-who-got-it-wrong-the-last-time-653672/

Mr. Senor is emblematic of how much trouble America blundered into in the Middle East -- trillions wasted, so many lives and limbs lost -- because of how little we fathom the culture and sectarian politics. We're still stumbling in the dark. We not only don't know who our allies and enemies are, we don't know who our allies' and enemies' allies and enemies are.

As the spokesman for Paul Bremer during the Iraq occupation, Mr. Senor helped perpetrate one of the biggest foreign policy bungles in U.S. history. The clueless desert viceroys summarily disbanded the Iraqi Army, forced de-Baathification, stood frozen in denial as thugs looted ministries and museums, deluded themselves about the growing insurgency and misled reporters with their Panglossian scenarios of progress.

"Off the record, Paris is burning," Mr. Senor told a group of reporters a year into the war. "On the record, security and stability are returning to Iraq."

Before he played ventriloquist to Mr. Ryan, Mr. Senor did the same for Mr. Romney, ratcheting up the candidate's irresponsible bellicosity on the Middle East. Mr. Senor was the key adviser on Mr. Romney's disastrous trip to Israel in July, when Mittens infuriated the Palestinians by making a chuckleheaded claim about their culture.

[scarletwoman]

5. Gosh. What a shame.

Go away, Dan, you friggin' blood-soaked blight on the human race...

[neverforget]

6. All the Neo-Cons know and want is a war.

That and gorge on the budget with military adventures to starve all non-defense related spending......

[Aerows]

7. I'm pleased to be a front-runner

in the Fuck Off, Dan Senor club of people that think stirring in that pile of shit is a bad idea.

Allow me to reiterate, fuck off, Dan Senor.

[NuclearDem]

8. Dan Senor can go fuck himself.

ABC can go fuck themselves just as hard for giving this son of a bitch a platform.