Predictable prescience
by digby
So the wingnuts are spreading this around like Rubio is the Oracle of Delphi:
What this proves is that this wasn’t actually the “big surprise” everyone was claiming it was last week. Moreover, while Rubio was breathlessly sounding the alarm you’ll notice that he forgot to mention what it is he would do about it.
Last night on Megyn Kelly he offered his expertise:
“They may conduct some operations against ISIS, but this is not about ISIS,” Rubio said. “This is about propping up Assad, who is a client state of both Iran and Vladimir Putin.”
Rubio explained that the purpose of the airstrikes is to position Russia as the most important outside power broker in the region, replacing the U.S.
Rubio added that choosing Assad over ISIS, as Donald Trump seemed to suggest on “The O’Reilly Factor” last night, is a terrible idea.
“I don’t think the choice should be Assad or ISIS. I think they both need to go.”
“It diminishes out importance…. we’re now a junior partner…blah,blah,blah…Assad gassed his own people” And then he just keeps saying the same thing over and over again about how the US is not longer the big swinging superpower as if that’s the real issue.
As for the solution to the Syria problem he says we need put together a coalition of “Sunni ground forces” to fight ISIS and take out Assad. What a good idea. Someone should get right on that …
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