Don't Empower Any of Our Enemies in Syria

An open letter to every Republican in the House and the Senate

This used to be an open letter to Speaker Boehner.  I've changed it up a bit since he made his disapointing and weak statement.  I am not only disapointed in his decision to support attacking Syria, but very disapointed in the weak statements he made about the president. He taked about appreciating the president coming to congress for support.  This is not about support, but authorization.  I will swallow hard and accept it of congress grants the president the authority to attack Syria.  But if this president is denied such authority and attacks anyway, he should be impeached.

If congress approves action in Syria, I will oppose it but prepare myself for the inevitable and be 100% supportive of any American troops involved in any action.  If congress doesn’t authorize action, and Obama acts anyway, the time for impeachment has arrived.  While I will forgive any congressman who votes his conscious and disagrees with me over the policy of attacking Syria, there will be no such forgiveness over any who lack the guts to impeach Obama if he goes it alone, in violation of our constitution.  Without congressional approval, Obama has no authority to strike Syria.  Syria has not struck us and is not an immediate threat to our national security.  Only congress can give Obama the constitutional authority he seeks to attack Syria.

It is my strong hope that Congress will refuse to give the president the authority he is asking for.  There is a very bad situation going on in Syria and it is one we can’t do much about.  I pray for the innocents and the women and children of Syria.  But for the most part, this is a war between to very evil groups of people.  The Ba’athists in Syria, such as Assad, are every bit as evil and dangerous as Adolf Hitler.  The Islamists are ever bit as evil and dangerous as Osama Bin Laden.  American treasure should not be spent, nor American blood risked or lost, in a civil war between those too.  The gassing of civilians was evil.  If the Islamists win, the torture and killing of Christians that will take place will be just as horrific, if not worse.  We are involved in our own struggle against tyranny at home and cannot be distracted by a foreign war, in which we will do no good.

We stand on the verge of our own revolution at home because of the attacks against liberty committed by this administration.  Our war, the war of patriots, is against the agents of tyranny at home, not abroad.  Now is not the time to become distracted by the actions of a foreign tyrant.  Now is the time to be refusing to fund ObamaCare and reestablishing constitutionalism at home.  Now is the time to investigate Benghazi and the IRS scandal.  We have to get our own house in order.

Sincerely yours,

Roger C. D’Aquin

The American Refugee