If you think it's bad now in Iraq/Syria...

The stakes are well defined at the Belmont Club:

  "It is no longer possible to regard the sectarian conflict as confined to a narrow strip of Levantine coast. With al-Qaeda’s eastward drive and the prospect of unrest spreading down into the Gulf via the Shi’a arc and Iran’s possible entry into the conflict, the battlefield has become immensely bigger. At stake is the single largest agglomeration of petroleum reserves on the planet. The potential for human disaster is Biblical as well.  The Gulf and the Arabian peninsula guest millions of expatriate workers, Westerners, Asians, Africans. Their safety, along with the countries which host them, were implicitly dependent on the United States.

While earlier generations of policy makers might confidently have said that the United States would defend Kuwait … or Bahrain … or Qatar … or Oman … or Saudi Arabia, with Obama it is impossible to say with any certainty that he will defend anything. The United States, and in consequence the West, has suffered a catastrophic collapse of credibility.

Any line that can by hypothetically drawn is at best a wild-ass-guess. For only one person can draw any line of consequence: Barack Hussein Obama.  We are witnessing not only a collapse but a capitulation."

Democrats in Congress need to wake up.  As much as they resented Bush's win in Iraq and Afghanistan, and wanted to reverse those gains, these developments have all the markings of a grand disaster of historic proportions.  Reversible now with the application of not even major air power, in a year or two we might be at the brink of the ultimate in war.   If that happens, there will be hell to pay, and it will be the Democratic Party who will be paying.

Consider not just the geo/political and refugee nightmare of a major all out war in the gulf, but also the economic.  With oil prices shooting to the stratosphere, what effect do you think that will have on everyone's pocketbook, especially given the tepid nature of our current economic recovery.  Can you say major recession or even depression?

All because this idiot of a "President" was elected by the idiots of the Free Shit Army, none of whom has any concept of the gravity of what is about to happen.  The adults, if there are any left in the Democratic Party, need to remember their allegiance to the people of the country, and join with the Republicans to force Obama to do what he must to stop this collapse from going any further.