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Why "The US Should Have Already Panicked," The Sectarian Divide Mapped Out
Meghan O’Sullivan, Harvard's Director of Geopolitics (and former deputy national security adviser for Iran and Afghanistan) warns, "The US should have already panicked." As she notes, major American economic and political interests are at stake. The erasure of the Syria-Iraq border by a group that is considered too radical for al-Qaeda, the takeover of Iraq’s second largest city by IS, the kidnapping of international diplomats, and the declaration of an Islamic caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria – each one of these should be a major signal about the gravity of the situation. The Sectarian Divide remains key...
O'Sullivan's conclusion...
First, the US needs to view Iraq and Syria as completely interwoven – perhaps two countries, but one theater in reality. It needs to view IS for what it is, a threat to US and regional interests, not just as a threat to the Iraqi government. This would suggest more military involvement to push back against IS. Both in Iraq and Syria, the crisis is ultimately a political one, not a military one, so changing the politics is also key. But the US should not think that it can sequence military help only to follow political reform – the two must come together given the urgency of the situation.
While the United States continues to deliberate about its next moves, others – Syria, Iran, Russia – have been filling the vacuum in ways that are not aligned with US interests. Along with political pressure, more US military assistance to Baghdad and even to the Kurds will give the US political leverage when it comes time to help the Iraqis renegotiate their political compact. The moment in which the US can make a difference and truly affect the outcome is narrowing dramatically every day.
Source: Goldman Sachs
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So the Saudi-backed IS is "too radical for AQ"?
Or is AQ no longer radical enough for the Saudis...?
We do know this: the Saudis aren't radical enough for the US. That's why the two are still in bed.
It was only shortly after 911, we called all of these countries an axis of evil. Today, they are exiting the petrodollar exchange.
Claps hands. You think the mission is complete? Don't forget to share the information on the bounty on your heads. The lies and denial will only come to fruition.
If the US had just monkey-hammered Iraq in 2003, none of this would be a problem today.
Don't get me wrong but so what if a bunch of 7th century mentality cultists want to kill the other 7th century cultists, what's the downside?
None,but they lack the efficacy of Europeans in their killing.Amateurs.
30%+ of the worlds oil supply, without which, the west would soon be racing back to the 7th century very quickly.
I can't get cheap gas.
No event is so grave that it can't be solved by a fund raising trip.
Post WW I, cluster fuck carve up, chickens coming home to roost. Time for round 2 nation state border re draw with that useless cold war ally (fallacy) israel involved now. Linear logic dictates that the ME peace with israel is a suckers bet and a loosing hand that needs to be folded. Persia is a MAJOR player( a semi-isolated nation no less),israel is ONLY a player because of the quarter TRILLION dollars and SUPPORT we gave them since 1948. iran WILL attain nuclear wepons just like israel. OMG, what a fucking mill stone around our collective (Western non-jew) neck. The western elite need to speed up the post 9/11 paradigm shift post fucking haste. Too much American blood sacrifice for this "arc of instability" at the same time our homeland is turning into 3rd world ,hyper power, multi cultural dystopia.
E pluribus unum, aint working real well snuffy...maybe
ORDO AB CHAO might bear fruit...prolly one with the mushroom cloud over an American city. Obummer recently espoused that scenario was his main concern...they been programming that meme for over a decade...member GEN. Tommy Franks coments in Cigar Afficionado interview years back.
Time to go fund raising. BRB...
Boom.
Problem solved.
Still waiting for a sectarian divide map for the USA...
Nerobama fiddling and putting while Rome burns. This President will be judged by history as the marker for the fall of the Western democracies.
The image of Slim Pickens riding the A-bomb while waving ala Dr Strangeglove, comes to mind.
Pure war mongering horseshit.
Shame on you, ma'am.
The Red team/Blue teams ferocious coverage(and rush to judgement without due process) of Malaysian plane downings is evidence of, "panicking."
Yeah
As was the attack on ZH just after.
I consider that a sign of success. We must be dangerous. They're trying to shut us down.
O'Sullivan seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that what she is proposing has already been tried for the past 13 years with totally destructive results. It is not necessary for the US to control, militarily, the countries from which it purchases petroleum. We certainly do not control Saudi Arabia and we look like fools by kissing their polygamous asses for the sake of a sure supply.
People look at the "market" as if it has a single soul.
No such thing as market with an independent soul.
Market has 'market makers' who make decisions for the whole structure. Market goes up or down based on central command HUMAN decisions.
Dow will go 4k, whenever central command decides so, depending on how fast world abandons USD and depending on the civil war between bank lobby and oil lobby.
Now military complex has gone against bank lobby. I think the end is near.
TRIPLE LEHMAN soon, by central command order, or assassionations betweeen warring lobbies.
ekm1,
Do you have any facts to substantiate your opinion that the "oil lobby" and the "bank lobby" are 1) different entities without extensive crossholdings and shared corporate control, 2) have conflicting strategic interests?
Appealing as it may sound, your opinion seem to underplay the overlapping concentration of corporate and political control in the Anglo-zionist empire.
first off, the US will "view" these places as its fucking told to by those who covet resources in the region moar jealously than Deadly Sin ever feared.
The Order Still Stands!!!!!
got it, MeyGun?!!??!
Let's drop her into the hot zone so she can explain this to the warring parties.
"Hey, At this point, what difference does it make?”
Abso-effing-lutely! And keep saying that and not responding to calls for throwing your kids and grandkids in front of cannons until the righteous collapse. Let those calling for action go themselves, or send their own kids and grandkids.
Then and only then can recovery begin...or whatever's going to happen.
The whole milldle east muslem culture is 50 shades of crazy. Why should I see ISIS to be so evil that the other factions are worth loosing american soldiers for. Would your kiss the prittiest lepper in a muslem lepper colony?
We elect a muslim for president (I use the term "elect" loosely) and we are surprised by this shit ???
come off that we elected a muslim shit. it's not flattering.
The Peter Principle in action. The US Empire reached a level where its incompetence was revealed, and now the unraveling. If the US was a sports team, It would begin getting rid of the deadwood and drafting some young talent, while getting back to the fundamentals.
Unfortunately, because no-one is actually in charge, like a general manager, the unraveling will run its course, and all the analysis in the world will not change the course of decline. In fact, it will be studiously ignored.
They will become like the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. All the seasons tickets are sold out every year, so all they have to do is LOOK LIKE they are trying to win the championship, while constantly raising the price of tickets and beer.
someone cheering for the sovereign nation of the united states of america?
did she not get the memo that country and those ideals are long gone?
Coke and Hookers:
I'll explain something.
When you kill 600 innocent people in a neighborhood where they use rockets fireworks, it is Israel.
When using fireworks Palestinians in Israel and the Israelis killed these three unfortunate, this is war.
I walk by reading, there is a lack of plastic bags to put "Spetnaz" Israelis under heat.
My father taught me not to give money to religion, political or other imbeciles who live far away from my community.
Money my only relatives and a few friends.
None of paper, which lends or borrows is always the "Wire Moustache" as they say here.
Barter!
It is the most hated word in the Jewish media.
Barter means to exchange one good for another.
Israel does not produce shit, or beautiful women there.
Because the U.S. continue to help this country shit I do not know.
Another thing "Coca-Cola":
Who did the Diaspora was a king of you.
You only have teamed up again to do shit in the world.
God is no longer with you over 2,000 years!
Buster!
Kind regards.
Alexandre.
"It needs to view IS for what it is...."
Depends on what your definition of 'IS' is.
"We have never had any financial or political or military relationship with that organization ... ISIS"
-- US govt.
Source: Goldman Sachs Enough said.
Exactly.
And when the author is from Harvard, a major source of crooks at Goldman Sachs and the US government, you know the content of the article is phony.
The thing is simple.
BRICS produce food, no water oil and gas.
The U.S. and NATO have guns.
Print paper to the mountains and say it's gold!
Eat weapons.
I would not know the taste (although I know) of a projectile.
The day that his ex-combatants start giving shots in the political rather than kill, we'll talk.
Unfortunately.
:-/
Brazil and Russia produce lots of oil and gas. Of course food is one they the elite want to control more than anything to get their way.....to enslave the world.
The thing is simple.
BRICS produce food, no water oil and gas.
The U.S. and NATO have guns.
Print paper to the mountains and say it's gold!
Eat weapons.
I would not know the taste (although I know) of a projectile.
The day that his ex-combatants start giving shots in the political rather than kill, we'll talk.
Unfortunately.
:-/
............nevermind.
oh gee bad foreign policy goes terminal. obama could blame bush if he deviated one bit from the poiicy.
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BS!!! ISIS is the creation of the USA.
BS!!! ISIS is the creation of the USA.
The self-centered greedy parasites, who think it is our right to demand everyone else do as we demand, get very tiring.
Maybe we should think a little bit about what is in their best interest before we decide to murder them ... and murder some of our own sons and daughters in the process.
The ignorant parasite should go back to her ivory tower and lock the door.
A piece of shit
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/debateni/blogs/liam-clarke/meghan-osul...
whose motto and advice is like the movie
Kill them All and Come Back Alive
One more "expert" who cannot speak Arabic and who has not yet worked out that ISIS, just like Al Qaeda, is a tool of US diplomacy.
The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of Americahttp://amzn.com/0520258711
and has made the trip from White House to Kennedy School like all ex-Staffers put on someone's payroll at Harvard
Public employee:
For Public Official in Brazil must provide proof procedure.
There are contests that up to 45,000 people pay for 100 vacancies.
Maybe more, depends on the State or Union
Only the best pass.
If you pass the Contest, you are a guy who speaks for the State, the State has responsibilities.
If you shit or talk shit without his superior, you're screwed.
The pay is good, very good, can believe.
There is another option of a public official but are indicated by politicians.
These should not be taken seriously.
In Brazil it is so, I believe that Russia and China also do not know how it is in India and South Africa
Throughout the U.S. with "democracy", no citizen votes in as President in Brazil where voting is straightforward.
You may be in Ukraine but in an election, you vote in Nevis or Aetius to President Dilma.
No need to vote for a guy of your state that will vote on the other, the thing is simple.
Oh, another thing: here is the vote on his toe, scanned my hands.
No need to document and nobody will vote in my place.
Unless you cut off my fingers.
Where is the democratic vote?
Where is the "Demo" (DemonioKracia)?
In the U.S. or Brazil?
hehe.
Q: how do you stop a Brazilian crowd from rioting?
A: throw in a football.
Because, the three trillion dollars and thousands of lives we spent on prior efforts just like this proposal during the last twenty years have paid off so well. (???????)
Please legalize marijuana everywhere to help these people get off their addiction to whatever alternative drugs they are using now.
It wasn't meant to bring peace. Only chaos. Peace is not profitable.
DownTooling - leading italics leads to no voteskies.
Looking at that chart, I'm sensing all is not well in the force.
“Blood Diamonds” Financing War Crimes in Gaza. President of London Diamond Bourse: “We Must ‘Finish the Job’”
In a sinister ultimatum laced with dark undertones, Harry Levy, President of the London Diamond Bourse, referring to the ongoing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, has written to colleagues in Israel telling them “we must ‘finish the job’, with hopefully the Palestinians wanting to ‘live for Palestine rather than die for Palestine’.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/blood-diamonds-financing-war-crimes-in-gaza-president-of-london-diamond-bourse-we-must-finish-the-job/5392636?
May the Zionist Occupied Government sink in the global quicksand and never return!
Great another unfunded war....
Shouldn't they wait till the earlier unfunded war can be called completed?
Buy gold/silver
When did they banish the expression "When in Rome...."? Fat rich golfers who think they know shit really shouldn't be there. Bureaucracy has one function: to grow itself. Like the BLOB! Like cancer. Like pneumonic bubonic ebola on performance enhancing smack from you know where! Or, dare I say it? Like a Major International Corporation where NOBODY'S really responsible! At least Ahab made his intentions clear and went down with his fucked-up dreams. Reef the sails mateys!
Oh wow, so scary... yes indeed, we should panic!
Please tell us, dear Meghan, where to send our sons and daughters to sign up so they can be dismembered and killed for your banker friends. I don't have Beltway connections like you do and I never went to Harvard, so I'm afraid I'm just not bright enough to know....
When you meet Meghan (I have) you will see the danger of academics in US foreign policy and especially female academics - better to have more former combattants who have killed or whose friends were KIA.
Realism and Reality simply do not exist in Meghan's World
When Meghan is not busy advocating moar war for her banker friends, she enjoys long walks on the beach and unwind with a hot cappuccino in her Lulu brand yoga pants. Shuuuuuut up!
Kind of sums up complicit America.
Who cares really? Our policy seems to be to keep that place divided and weak. They do 99% of the work for us. Russia can go over there and make all the promises they want. Promises and alliances between Muslims and Russians? yea right. The middle east and Russia are competitors for the EU oil market. Saudi wants a pipe through Iraq/Syria to Turkey. Russia doesn't. Saudi holds a lot more influence han Russia. Good grief the drama on this site is hard to believe.
Jojo the zino troll, here's your wishful thinking / disinformation nugget.
"Saudi holds a lot more influence than Russia."
Bandar Bush is gone. Saudi knees are shaking.
and the oil is running out
Mehgan wants to be Syria's Nudelman.
Moar War Moar Intrigue Moar Deception Moar Manipulation Moar Death
"Source: Goldman Sachs"
Says so right there at the bottom of the article.
Dismissed.
US may have run the cookie jar to empty, and now budget can't stretch to fix the mess they made.
just as well oil demand is dropping because they going to lose control of supply.
US may have run the cookie jar to empty, and now budget can't stretch to fix the mess they made.
just as well oil demand is dropping because they going to lose control of supply.
God what a cunt....and a bad grace to us Irish-she is part of the establishment-thus part of the problem
I just want to know how many Jihadists in waiting now in U.S. especially in Dearbornistan
Looks like, the banking, defense and oil lobbies are getting cheap in their PR in engaging Meg who still has some appeals to the clueless baby boomer that are hanging around the fringes of the real elites.
The better promoters now need higher fees for such spins given higher risks to their reputations.
Caliphate - done deal.
zero starts for this propaganda wad. So, we should believe the crooked 'security' advisor and Goldman Sachs, the evil empire? bleah.
The Middle East is full of Democrats. Look at all that blue.
a big thanks to ZH for posting this: this women a person at the top of .gov and by gosh now working for wall street, writes like this is 1941. lady you are more deadly to me and mine than any ISIS rag head. All I see ISIS doing is showing the face of radical muslim stone age evil. you however think playing with people in the mid east is our duty and more drones and bombs and boots on the ground will protect us from ISIS..shit we need protection from our own security state, worthless bitch.
There, fixed it for them.......
"First, the world needs to view Goldman and the Fed as completely interwoven – perhaps two entities, but one theater in reality."
The time to panic was when Dick Cheney was was elected President.