David Koch: Attacking Syria Would Be 'Dead Wrong'

[monmouth3]

Billioniaire David Koch weighed in on the situation in Syria on Friday, saying it would be "dead wrong" for the United States to take military action.

In an interview with Yahoo! News' Chris Moody, Koch, a prominent backer of conservatives, compared a potential attack on Syria to "putting your head into a hornet's nest."

“You’re going to get shot at from all directions," Koch said. "There’s all this talk about attacking the bad guys in Syria, but whom do you attack? Where do you find the people who put these chemical weapons together, this poisonous gas? To me it’s an impossibility, and we’re just going to generate a huge increase in the hostility to the United States in my opinion.”

Koch's not the only conservative to speak out on the crisis in Syria. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said President Barack Obama should "let Allah sort it out" in a Facebook post on Friday.

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/31/david-koch-syria_n_3849202.html

[Squinch]

1. David Koch doesn't have any standing to be making decrees about this. Who cares what he thinks?

[Fawke Em]

5. Neither does the half-term governor, for that matter.

What political position does she hold?

[David Krout]

2. Karl Rove to Obama: Bomb Syria

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/kristol-wieseltier-urge-syria-action-171285.html

Your turn.

[Squinch]

4. Well, in the article it said Sarah Palin is against it too. So all sides of the "who gives a shit"

panel of political morons and criminals have been heard from.

[David Krout]

9. Bill Kristol wants war in Syria. Your turn nt

[blm]

12. BushInc wanted war in 2005, and every other war hawk and neocon.

Including both Clintons.

Amazing that so many here never understood that back then, that, but for the release of the Downing Street Memos that exposed Bush's Iraq intel lies to every world leader, and Katrina pushing Bush's poll numbers so low here, Syria would have been invaded by US in 2005.

[Squinch]

13. Some guy named Boomer in Newark is for it, the old lady who walks her dog on my block

in her pajamas is against it.

And then, of course, there's John McCain. He thinks we should bomb Sydney. Also synonyms. And syphilis. I have to say, I'm with him on that last one.

[Laelth]

17. +1 for the clever DUzy candidate. n/t

-Laelth

[Squinch]

21. Well, thank you!

[scarletwoman]

3. For the record, just because David Koch and Sarah Palin are against bombing Syria,

it isn't going to change my own opinion that bombing Syria is the flat out wrong thing to do. I unequivocally oppose any sort of U.S. military strike, period.

[NuclearDem]

6. Yeah, no kidding.

Seriously, this whole debacle is putting me in a position to agree with David fucking Koch.

What the fuck is going on here?!

[Jackpine Radical]

16. I hate it when that happens.

Jeez, Jim Sensenbrenner already embarrassed me this summer by wanting to contain the NSA.

[Laelth]

19. It makes a kind of sick sense.

We're seeing it more and more often these days.

Populists on both sides are driven by ideology (note the intentionally negative connotation); we genuinely want to make the world better, and we think that our ideas, if put into practice) would be the best way to make the world better. Interesting that at least one of the Koch brothers is a genuine idealist, even if I disagree with his ideas. Palin has always been a populist. Populists on the left, of course, oppose military action in Syria by a large margin. It appears that left populists and right populists agree once again, as they did on bailing out the banks in 2008/2009.

"Pragmatists" or Centrists on both sides are driven by TPTB ... period. Full stop.

Make of that what you will.

-Laelth

[AverageJoe90]

22. ""Pragmatists" or Centrists on both sides are driven by TPTB"...I'd say that for the extremists.....

on both sides as well(well, not so much the Far Left, who are really more manipulated, than driven) as the Right Populists myself, with the Left Populists and the Pragmatist Centrists fighting the good fight, but see, the thing is, is that my assertion actually has a lot more truth to it.

[tblue]

7. Believe me, when the Kochs talk, Congress listens.

I have to agree with the man on this issue.

[KoKo]

24. If he can sway some Repug Votes to vote against this...then

I'll take it. He and his brother are scum...but, on this he is correct as to the consequences of us going in and bombing when the outcome in the long run could destabilize the whole ME.

[mike_c]

8. a broken clock is right at least once a day....

Wonders never cease.

[XemaSab]

10. +1

n/t

[winter is coming]

14. He probably hasn't figured out a way to make money from it. n/t

[Little Star]

11. Fuck any & everything that Billioniaire David Koch thinks or says. Fuck Both Koch brothers!....

UGH! I don't care if this stopped clock is right twice a day. They are the scum of the earth. What they say matters not one bit to me.

[Laelth]

15. Interesting. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[LittleBlue]

18. He's right

Just because he's a rightwing scumbag doesn't mean he's wrong on everything.

[AverageJoe90]

20. Hmm.....why IS Davey Koch against attacking Syria?

You'd think that he'd be all for it, since, after all, so many people out there have claimed this is all about oil & gas, as was the case with Iraq.....given that there's been so many stories about oil pipelines and such.

And yet, here he is, standing in clear opposition to Syria. Is there something about this that might just NOT be in his and other plutocrats' interests? Something to think about for sure.....

[1-Old-Man]

23. Proving once again that even a broken clock is right now and then.

[Motown_Johnny]

25. This makes me think it is the right thing to do. Perfect Reverse Barometer.

[markiv]

30. you just made yourself a perma-hawk

because liberatarians are always going to be against war

[kelliekat44]

26. You can count of the Koch bros. to go against anything Obama wants. Yeah!!!!!!!!! nt

[Deep13]

27. Shut the fuck up, Koch. nt

[treestar]

28. I would have thought he'd be for it

As a money maker for the MIC. I've seen his name mentioned that way on several DU posts.

[markiv]

29. David Koch was Liberatarion Party VP Candidate in 1980

liberatarians are anti-war by nature

nothing new here

I am always dumbfounded when people choose a position based on who's for and whos against, rather than thinking for themselves

sure there may be people you often agree or disagree with, but the idea on basing an opinion soley on whos for or against it makes me sick - very weak minded thinking

[gopiscrap]

31. That's interesting coming from him