Ashamed To Be An American

I never thought I'd ever hear myself saying I'm ashamed to be an American.  But, that's where Obama has driven me.  Our feckless, mindlessd positions are so indescribably stupid.

Consider the Ukraine.  The Ukrainians are up against far superior arms.  Why in the world don't we give them proper tanks and proper field pieces?  Do we expect them to clean out the Russian "volunteers" now on their soil  with machine guns and a few mortars?  If we fear that the Russians will fly over the Ukraine and bomb whatever tanks we might give the Ukrainians, why not base a few fighter plans in the Ukraine.  If Russians fighter planes fly over the Ukraine our planes could blast them.  But, that may not be necessary.  We surely must have suitable anti-aircraft equipment to do the job.

The same things goes for the Kurds in Syria.  ISIL is taking over Kurdish towns in Syria, killing their men and making sex providers of their women.  The Kurds too need tanks and artillery pieces to counter ISIL's tanks and artillery.  Why are we not helping our friends?

We now expect the Sunnis to help us fight ISIL.  Why?  We've screwed them twice.  We failed to reward them when they helped us drive out Al Qaeda.  We now want them to help us get rid of ISIL.  Why should they?  So that they can exchange the ISIL yoke for the Shiite yoke?  Is is after all the Shiites who want to dominate every one living in the mystical state of Iraq.