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A Refugee Crisis Made In America
Submitted by Philip Giraldi via TheAmericanConservative.com,
On April 29th, 2008 I had a Saul on the Road to Damascus moment. I had flipped open the Washington Post and there, on the front page, was a color photo of a two year old Iraqi boy named Ali Hussein being pulled from the rubble of a house that had been destroyed by American missiles. The little boy was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and had on his feet flip-flops. His head was hanging back at an angle that told the viewer immediately that he was dead.
Four days later on May 3rd a letter by a Dunn Loring Virginia woman named Valerie Murphy was printed by the Post. Murphy complained that the Iraqi child victim photo should not have been run in the paper because it would “stir up opposition to the war and feed anti-US sentiment.” I suppose the newspaper thought it was being impartial in printing the woman’s letter, though I couldn’t help but remember that the neocon-dominated Post had generally been unwilling to cover anything antiwar, even ignoring a gathering of 300,000 protesters in Washington in 2005. Rereading the woman’s complaint and also a comment on a website suggesting that the photo of the dead little boy had been staged, I thought to myself, “What kind of monsters have we become.” And in truth we had become monsters. Bipartisan monsters wrapped in the American flag. Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once said that killing 500,000 Iraqi children through sanctions was “worth it.” She is now a respected elder statesman close to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
I had another epiphany last week when I saw the photo of the little Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach like a bit of flotsam. He was wearing a red t-shirt and black sneakers. I thought to myself that many Americans will shake their heads when looking at the photo before moving on, more concerned about Stephen Colbert’s debut on the Late Show and the start of the NFL season.
The little boy is one of hundreds of thousands of refugees trying to get to Europe. The world media is following the crisis by focusing primarily on the inability of unprepared local governments to deal with the numbers of migrants, asking why someone somewhere can’t just “do something.” This means that somehow, as a result, the vast human tragedy has been reduced to a statistic and, inevitably, a political football.
Overwhelmed by thousands of would-be travelers, Hungary suspended train service heading towards Western Europe while countries like Serbia and Macedonia deployed their military and police along their borders in a failed attempt to completely block refugees. Italy and Greece have been overwhelmed by migrants arriving by sea. Germany, to its credit, is intending to process up to 800,000 refugee and asylum applications, mostly from Syria, while Austria and Sweden have also indicated their willingness to accept many more. Immediate neighbors of the zone of conflict, notably Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are hosting more than three million of those who are displaced, but the wealthy Arab Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia have done little or nothing to help.
Demands for a European unified strategy to deal with the problem are growing, to include sealing borders and declaring the seas off of preferred departure points in North Africa and Asia to be military zones where undocumented ships and travelers will be intercepted and turned back. One also has to suspect that the refugee crisis might be exploited by some European politicians to justify NATO “humanitarian” intervention of some sort in Syria, a move that would have to be supported by Washington. But while the bickering and maneuvering goes on, the death toll mounts. The recent discovery of 71 dead would-be migrants who suffocated in the back of a locked truck found in Austria, to include five children and a toddler, horrified the world. And that was before the dead three year old on the Turkish beach.
Many of the would-be migrants are young men looking for work in Europe, a traditional enterprise, but most of the new arrivals are families escaping the horrors of war in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen. Their plight has been described in the media in graphic terms, families arriving with nothing and expecting nothing, fleeing even worse conditions back at home.
The United States has taken in only a small number of the refugees and a usually voluble White House has been uncharacteristically quiet about the problem, possibly realizing that allowing in a lot of displaced foreigners at a time when there is an increasingly heated debate over immigration policy in general just might not be a good move, politically speaking. But it should perhaps be paying some attention to what caused the problem in the first place, a bit of introspection that is largely lacking both from the mainstream media and from politicians.
Indeed, I would assign to Washington most of the blame for what is happening right now. Since folks inside the beltway are particularly given to making judgements based on numerical data they might be interested in the toll exacted through America’s global war on terror. By one not unreasonable estimate, as many as four million Muslims have died or been killed as a result of the ongoing conflicts that Washington has either initiated or been party to since 2001.
There are, in addition, millions of displaced persons who have lost their homes and livelihoods, many of whom are among the human wave currently engulfing Europe. There are currently an estimated 2,590,000 refugees who have fled their homes from Afghanistan, 370,000 from Iraq, 3,880,000 million from Syria, and 1,100,000 from Somalia. The United Nations Refugee Agency is expecting at least 130,000 refugees from Yemen as fighting in that country accelerates. Between 600,000 and one million Libyans are living precariously in neighboring Tunisia.
The number of internally displaced within each country is roughly double the number of those who have actually fled and are seeking to resettle outside their homelands. Many of the latter have wound up in temporary camps run by the United Nations while others are paying criminals to transport them into Europe.
Significantly, the countries that have generated most of the refugees are all places where the United States has invaded, overthrown governments, supported insurgencies, or intervened in a civil war. The invasion of Iraq created a power vacuum that has empowered terrorism in the Arab heartland. Supporting rebels in Syria has piled Pelion on Ossa. Afghanistan continues to bleed 14 years after the United States arrived and decided to create a democracy. Libya, which was relatively stable when the U.S. and its allies intervened, is now in chaos, with its disorder spilling over into sub-Saharan Africa.
Everywhere people are fleeing the violence, which, among other benefits, has virtually obliterated the ancient Christian presence in the Middle East. Though I recognize that the refugee problem cannot be completely blamed on only one party, many of those millions would be alive and the refugees would for the most part be in their homes if it had not been for the catastrophic interventionist policies pursued by both Democratic and Republican administrations in the United States.
It is perhaps past time for Washington to begin to become accountable for what it does. The millions of people living rough or in tents, if they are lucky, need help and it is not satisfactory for the White House to continue with its silence, a posture that suggests that the refugees are somehow somebody else’s problem. They are, in fact, our problem. A modicum of honesty from President Barack Obama would be appreciated, perhaps an admission that things have not exactly worked out as planned by his administration and that of his predecessor. And money is needed. Washington throws billions of dollars to fight wars it doesn’t have to fight and to prop up feckless allies worldwide. For a change it might be refreshing to see tax money doing some good, working with the most affected states in the Middle East and Europe to resettle the homeless and making an honest effort to come to negotiated settlements to end the fighting in Syria and Yemen, both of which can only have unspeakably bad outcomes if they continue on their current trajectories.
Ironically, American hawks are exploiting the photo of the dead Syrian boy to blame the Europeans for the humanitarian crisis while also demanding an all-out effort to depose Bashar al-Assad. Last Friday’s Washington Post had a lead editorial headlined “Europe’s Abdication,” and also featured a Michael Gerson op-ed urging immediate regime change in Syria, blaming the crisis solely on Damascus. The editorial railed against European “racists” regarding the refugee plight. And it is not clear how Gerson, an evangelical neoconservative former speech writer for George W. Bush, can possibly believe that permitting Syria to fall to ISIS would benefit anyone.
We Americans are in something approaching complete denial about how truly horrible our nation’s recent impact on the rest of the world has been. We are universally hated, even by those who have their hands out to receive their Danegeld, and the world is undoubtedly shaking its head as it listens to the bile coming out of the mouths of our presidential candidates. Shakespeare observed that the “evil that men do lives after them,” but he had no experience of the United States. We choose to dissimulate regarding the bad choices we make followed up with lies to justify and mitigate our crimes. And still later the evil we do disappears down the memory hole. Literally.
In writing this piece I looked up Ali Hussein, the little Iraqi boy who was killed by the American bomb. He has been “disappeared” from Google, as well has the photo, presumably because his death did not meet community standards. He has likewise been eliminated from the Washington Post archive. The experience of Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984 immediately came to mind.
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It's not just the US, there's plenty of blame to go around on this one.
You could go back a century and start with the Brits and Frogs betraying the Arabs in the Sykes-Picot fiasco...
[PS: this article still quotes that BS about the drowned toddler. He was a victim of his own greedy, lying father...]
Or you could just go back and pin it all on Lucifer and call it a day, eh?
But that really would be missing the point.
Wouldn't it...
The entire Middle East mess was a concoction of British and French foreign policy during and following WWI.
Does the US have clean hands? No.
But the place was screwed up by the Europeans LONG before the US had any influence there.
Study your history, then get back to me...
Over 70% of the refugees are men. You would never know it from the press which always features photogenic women and children.
I wonder how many of the men are basically draft dodgers? That would explain why fellow draft dodgers like Bill Clinton, Trump and Bernie Sanders have so much sympathy for them.
Yeah. Imagine dodging a draft where the requirements are, "rape and kill the rest of your family or die".
Stupid, refugee bludgers! Don't they know they're supposed to fight for Qatari Gas or provide fodder for the war drums through their gruesome deaths?
WRONG.
All we did was try and unseat someone standing in the way of our pipeline. Impede progress at your own peril.
Yea, sure, the people we trained and funded went a little overboard with that whole Ala Snackbar Muslim thing, but that is not by OUR doing.
Sheeesh. You people really need to get with the program.
“We Americans are in something approaching complete denial about how truly horrible our nation’s recent impact on the rest of the world has been.”
It seems to me that it is most of the drones in D.C. and in the state media who are the ones in denial. The rest there are arrogant hypocrites.
Most of the rest of Americans simply are living in ignorance thanks to the hypocrites and drones in government and its propagandists in the media.
the american people have nothing to do with the fucked up world those people have created over there and i refuse to absolve those running cowards from the responsibility to their fellow countrymen.
Hey, Philip Giraldi - shove it up your ass !
Fuck these refugees and you too - it time for them to deal with their own issues and us to deal with ours...
In the same way you are powerless to constrain the abrogation of the US Constitution or the abuse of power by the powers that be in the US (assuming you are such as a UStatian), because you are constrained by the status quo structure the State Power, so too are the minions of the middle east in relation to their local State Power. You may have missed it, but the culpability of the US here is its Power leadership projecting a policy, that no bloc of well meaning US citizens have any real control over, in coordination or against the local middle east State Powers that work to destabilize whatever nominal accomodation toward civilization that may have been developed (e.g.: Gaddafi), and geneally without any real accounting for the interest of the local population, except where such interest may fit or be massaged into a desired narrative for manipulation of the gullible, credulous, USless public.
"Family reunification" laws in Europe may at least partly explain why 70% of the refugees are men.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_reunification
Many if not most of our American (European) ancestors were draft dodgers fleeing the Napoleonic wars and then you name the war after that. Would you be fool enough to go to Vietnam knowing what we know now? For fuck's sake, why go to your death for some banker's whim? That said, if you want to join the military, more power to you, but being forcred to join for false reasons is about as fucked up a thing as one can dream up.
Or worse.It was the noose, or emigrate to America for a lot.
The British didn't just deport convicts to Australia.
Turkish Empire
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"Americans are in something approaching complete denial about how truly horrible our nation’s recent impact on the rest of the world has been."
Sorry, you're at zerojew where America sucks and Islam is a victim.
jeez did this guy get enough self-flagallation in for one day to appease his bleeding heart? pathetic
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The "EVIL"is not owned by the USA, We generally try to do the right thing, with the exception when things get really corrupt and political. However, the EVIL is burning people in cages, and decapitating people in mass just because of religion.
As a bad joke, at the least when the USA kills and injures it is for money.
The League of Nations started the ME mess, NOT the United States. Remember the partition of the ME was the League of Nations and Britain. The US was cleaning up Germany and THAT partition with the USSR at that time, and we were also working on cleaning up Japan.
We are not saints, however, we are far far from the worst offenders, that are killing kids, raping little girls and torturing and killing just about everyone that does not agree with their sick version of a fundamental interp of their religion.
As an off-hand observation, I reluctantly watched several of those ISIS murder videos and each one was 100% fake. I've no explanation for it - just throwing out a fact.
Orwell's commentary on the manipulation of language is lost on almost everyone.
The United States exist as an entity that actually does something. PEOPLE do things in the name of the abstraction.
WHO?
Not I. Probably not you.
So, again, I ask... WHO?
The Debt-Money Monopolists is the obvious answer. They finance government and society and, therefore, control much of it.
Blame the right people... Because the Debt-Money Monopoly also controls Europe... and the rest of the Western countries. We are all pieces on their Grand Chessboard... yes, Brzezinski is a chief technocrat to the Debt-Money Monopolists.
And yes, the Debt-Money Monopolists have nothing but very bad intentions for ordinary people.
Their motivation is evil greed and covetousness, that is their primary motive, people are just objects that get in the way of their greed. In other words pure and complete sociopaths.
"We generally try to do the right thing, with the exception when things get really corrupt and political."
I think it was Churchill who said words to the effect "the Americans can be relied on to do the right thing, after all other options have failed".
Speaking of Frogs ...
Charlie Hebdo Mocks The Death of Syrian Child Aylan Kurdihttp://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2015/09/167835/charlie-hebdo-mocks-the-d...
I bet those Hebdo folks are still mad because some of them were gunned down in cold blood. With several hundred thousand Muslims headed to their town, freedom of expression might get a rough test.
All hail the fudgepacker & its bullish*t policies.
WhoreInTown, DC simply needs to accept 1 million refugees within it's own boundary's. That is ALL the actual athority they possess.
As I explained to the IRS lady on 9/23/01 in the Hilton Capitol Inn, "We don't want you to die, but we could really give a shit. Most of us would welcome a barrage of nukes right the fuck here, and in any bunker within 20 miles. We don't consider you as anything more than war fodder Nukes obliterating your entire beureau and supporting structures will not be moarned, We'll just make the new capitol in four square miles of the badlands or Death Valley, or the far, nrthern, reaches of North Dekota. And you are prohibited from digging a hole more than five inches deep.
IRS lady started to wail, Hillary Clinton walked by the crowd of about fiften listining to my every word. Dad was surrounded by a similar group of pirana, but he didn't fit the profile of what news wants.
I'm an opinionated asshole after less than a year in the USMC. Dad is an opinionated asshole after 34 years in the air farce, with a viet nam near court marshall for trading USAF spotlessly clean bullets for USMC muddied, totally fucked, unfireable rounds, one for one, sending the USMC shit to USAF to be cleaned, rearmed and examined. Then supplying these rounds, covertly, to the USMC in Viet Nam from Guam. Those of you there at the time may know him and my last name.
SemperfuckingFi
Good on 'ya, OldPhart......from a Currahee to a Jarhead.
There is a lot of blame to go around, but two wrongs do not make a right either. This article stinks of hand wringing moralising, dumping a problem of thousands of migrants with a very hostile culture (one that is currently causing the problems of poverty and war) on the US tax payer is just another evil.
Ive heard it suggested that we could have and trade a refugee per drone index-in all seriousness Britain,France,Australia,Canada and others in the coalition of unsanctioned technical war criminals helped but yes America done its fair share of creating chaos.
American = Boojie Man. Boooooooo
I am so done with accepting blame for this. I did not vote for any of it. If I had the power, I would make those who did this pay in the more horrifying way possible. Why should I carry the blame, guilt and responsibility?
Everyday in my job I see what crosses our porous border and because I see only the few that are sick that are detained, I realize the numbers are not reflective what truly is happening. At some point, those who slumber will be in for a rude awakening.
Miffed
Yeah, well, 87% of the people polled were against Obamacare and you saw how much DC and Congress respected your opinion. Same with Syria involvement; if I remember correctly over 80% of the people polled said, "Do not get involved." Yet here we are.
Newt Gingrich's book really nails this down. Whether you like him or not he does a good job describing the disconnect bewteen DC and the American people. He said both parties are completely broke and basically most need to be voted out. No doubt he is correct but oddly the Dems, who are supposed to be against war, are the more voracious war mongers right now!
Ordinary US voters have as much effect on US policy as the citizens of a dictatorship.
WARNING: Reality may be considered disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
will there be sex?
Sex? No.
Fucking?
(absolutely, everyone at one time or another) Until every last cent has been harvested.
Guaranteed.
Fucking?
I believe so. The EU is being totally fucked Nuland-style.
Very accurate.
In the long run, however, it does come to mind. It's accumulative. Romans used to think their Empire was forever.
Vespasian thereby claimed, like his great predecessor Augustus, to have brought peace to a warring Rome and to have guaranteed the empire forever.
Ta-da! Rim-shot followed by cymbals crashing.
How about Israel? A rich & vibrant democracy, full of compassionate, generous people & right next door to the trouble in Syria.
I note that mainstream media has lately been lambasting Russia for not taking any refugees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfrSklM8U94
Israel shuts door on immigration of refugees. Calls for all Jewish people to return to Israel.
Does that include Mr. Yellen and Lloyd?
He calls for all Jewish people to return to Israel. That's not necessary and many won't do it (Iranian Jews specifically*). He could solve his 'demographic crisis' by taking in all the Israel Firsters instead.
* That says a lot. Jews living in Iran (boo, hiss, new Hitler, wipe Israel off the map, nukes next week) prefer living there to Israel.
We are in a situation where we may end up pinched between the outrage of the world being unleashed on the US in combination with the fact that our own government doesn't seem to like us very much. It would be one thing if we were a bunch of FOX news buffs who have been screaming "kill all the muzzies" but we are not, I don't suppose that will count for anything.
If you have the assets and the know how now would be a good time to get your family out of this circus.
Yes, there is something of an anti-American exceptionalism now, and it discriminates. There's not much Americans can do about it besides lay low in terms of this anti-Americanism and attempt to be the ones to get rid of the government on their own.
Um, you haven't been reading much on the Hedge if you think we're not a "bunch of FOX news buffs who have been screaming "kill all the muzzies"". That is most definitely the majority opinion on the Hedge. As on Yahoo and CNN. We're exceptional, on the Hedge.
If you want to ascertain the mentality of your average zerohedge idiot, go to www.stormfront.org - that is the racist white supremacist mindset here. Sieg heil!
@MS NO
"government doesn't seem to like us very much."
The U.S. government, in it's present form is anti-citizen.
It would be interesting to see what Americans would do if an allied force of nations invaded the U.S. in response to our foibles.
I hope you've got your 10,000 SPF sunblock on when that day comes, because if you think the US is just going to lay back and wait for conventional warfare to take place on US soil you got another think coming...
Don't see it happening. America only seems susceptible to nuclear attacks, civil war, and economic/social/cultural/political degradation. The last seems the biggest threat now, and could cause civil war. A nuclear attack is also getting very likely with all the pressure on Russia and China.
*thing
And honestly, I would expect those in control of the launch codes to be fully complicit in any warefare conducted on U.S. soil. The only way U.S. missiles fly is if the U.S. citizenry looks like fighting off the banksters - and then the missiles are only going to be targetting continental U.S. cities anyway.
No, Post Turtle is right. It IS THINK
http://grammarist.com/usage/another-think-coming/
I stand corrected.
Though calling any americanization "grammatically correct" is a bit on the nose ;)
Odd that a news photo is sanitized. I hate and fear Google.
Stalin would have loved it.
Google's agenda and control is very dark. Same with Facebook and others. They exist for the purpose of monitoring, classifying and controlling people.
... A business model built on giving everything away free to its users and making money on adverising? I cannot believe that people are so ignorant so as to believe that this is real. As with television, there is a darker purpose behind it ... Master the Human Domain ... but it has been going on a lot longer than people realize.
Once, we were loved and revered in the world. It was long ago.
Today, we're loathed and despised, for many compelling reasons.
America's meteoric rise to global acclaim will be dwarfed by ignominy of her catastrophic fall. After all of the evil the DC psychopaths and their degenerate NYC and Hollywood accomplices have wrought across the globe, no one will mourn our ultimate demise.
Here's one guy's opinion about what made America great, especially in regard to immigration: http://iotwreport.com/polish-politician-warns-about-importing-human-garb...
We're hated for our Apple iPhones, iPads, and iStencils.
They may however lament the chaos that follows.
But we are most to blame, because we can still act positively. We could simply pull out.
That's what she said nine months later.
It seems rather dull,
but fans of a free society need to put attention on the finely crafted and amazingly small organization called Congress.
You will rue the day when you neglected the simple.
Some oligarch/corporation was there ahead of you with a tub full of money.
I have friends who say, "but if it isn't the US trying to dominate and control, it will simply be some other power that will. There's always a power trying to control everything using inhumane means." (implicitly acquiescing to what's going on because it benefits them).
Looking back on history, they're basically right.
Does anyone have a response to this? How does humanity out all control-freak sociopaths?
Ban anyone who desires power and/or the authority to weild it from having any.
Your desire to be a politician is a disqalification for the job.
Oh. And BTW meet your new Masters. Same as the old masters. Except the new ones do not speak your language or understand your culture.
Same as it ever was.
Insist on the Rule of Law, at All costs.
Boring, eh?
Don't be one of them. It isn't too hard.
A great presentation on how the US, the once savior and host of many impoverished and destitute, has been usurped from within to serve its parasite.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKqIGgpVb6CGGUdvCwymJHTRI73bJafkmfFk...
There are no accidents. This refugee crisis is Europes shock-and-awe intended to desensitize them before the upcoming final dismantlisation of Syria.
I hate whiny liberal losers .... who think everyone hates us .... fuck you .... we will be feared and revered again .... we are the show !
Poe's law?
Poe's law ?
I know it's almost as bad as the my shit don't smell crowd
All empires are hated
especially near the end
You all deserve what lies ahead of you. This time: Justified Schadenfreude on the other side. I just sit and watch the show, hoping to be exempt from the pain your systems still generates.
Is that you Karl Rove?
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."[
Until the belief in your own power and exceptionalism completely blinds you the reality that will bring you down.
PS, everyone who does not profit from you, does hate you. The ones who do profit hold you in contempt.
They do.
I'm unusual in having relatives across five continents and a lot more countries .
Its a common meme when we talk openly.The change in the last 25 years is stunning.
Wasn't it Pentagon & Washington that decided: no troops on ground, just bombings!
Result according to an article on here: 6,700 bombs over areas of Iraq & Syria destroying city after city, and now the West takes no blame for the massive migration....really!!!
Bombs these days. They just grow up with a mind of their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_47mmt5SZY
I think the idea is to bring the terrorists (refugees) into the US as a means to enforce even more draconian conditions. If someone doesn't arrest Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon for treason soon we are fucked.
lol...good grief...
About Philip GiraldiPhil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London. In addition to TAC, where he has been a contributing editor for nine years, he writes regularly for Antiwar.com. He is currently Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and resides with his wife of 32 years in Virginia horse country close to his daughters and grandchildren. He has begun talking far too much to his English bulldog Dudley of late, thinks of himself as a gourmet cook, and will not drink Chardonnay under any circumstances. He does not tweet, and avoids all social media.
Well despite his obvious good humor and self deprecation I think I'll pass on whatever the ex-CIA officer who has now retired to the wonderful horse country of Virginia has to say.
Just call it a quirk of mine ;-)
effin' beautiful, thanks for the heads up, nmewn.
BTW, most of those ex-gubmint people in the DC suburbs live quite well...in fact, extremely well.
read nmewn's post, seems philip should shoot himself for having more input into our nations wars in ME than any taxunit voter posting here. - he hid the real reptile elite who run DC, and puts the blame on the citizens who have no say and no power. ex cia and still a lying asshole.
NM
I actually "up arrowed" you on this one.
I look at Giraldi the same way I do Ray McGovern. Where the fuck were they in 1990 when the Hill & Knowlton gang and CNN were front running the PR to destroy their faithful servant in Iraq and getting a paycheck from Langley to look the other way?
Wasn't it time for them to stop then?
Well said indeed!
So, is he saying that the next time some horrific disaster happens any where in the world, we stay away, far, far away. No hospital ships, medicines, food, water, shelter, etc. to help.
Okay, I say hate on my friend and we'll stand back and watch next time anyone needs the U.S.
Uh, Tyler, what are you sniffing? Any site that quotes stats from the UN of all places should not be taken at face value. Also remember from recent history how the Vietnam war ended? They antiwar activists kept telling us that everything would be just fine when our country got out of Cochin China. Well just take a look at what happened after 10:00am, April 30th of 1975. The Boat People, the millions of refugees from the Hmong and Meo tribes and the Kampuchean Genocide! Oh don't try to convince me that this was unexpected or the fault of our country. I do not want to see any citations from Noam Choamsky, Alexander Cockburn or Christopher Hitchens. I grew up in a "Progressive" town and I know all the mind tricks that they use. Oh and don't worry, I'm not a fan of the beltway conservatives. They are a bunch of Chardonnay Dandies who have lost the will to fight!
And speaking of immigration, I have relatives who used to live in Lowell Massachusetts. Back in the late seventies, Lowell was selected to be the place where a lot of Cambodian refugees where settled in the United States. My relatives left Lowell because the Cambodians were stealing everything in sight. In fact, one day they almost caught one Cambodian trying to leave their house with some of their items. At that point my aunt and uncle decided it was time to get out of Lowell.
I enjoy the First Amendment.
If I don't get a few down votes .... I'm not pushing the envelope enough .... fuck you Philip Giraldi .... I shit in your mother's milk !
I didn't vote for this, and I did vote for that.
I think that's the problem: All I did was vote or not vote.
In other words, I didn't actually DO anything.
The media are pretending most of the *vast* number of people on the move are Syrians - it's not true.
It is perhaps past time for Washington to begin to become accountable for what it does.
Must be something in the drinking water in DC that your learn to parse plain English so badly it becomes pure gibberish.
Hey Giraldi, sit up and pay attention. Now lets rewrite that into plain English.
It is time to investigate this administration's criminal culpability in arming, training and financing the terrorists responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
There. Fixed it for ya.
Philip Giraldi considers himself an "intelligence asset" .... I think of him as a POS .... Poe's law doesn't apply to my in yo face comments !
How about swapping 10,000 Syrians for 10,000 of our prison inmates? The Sryians could be housed and fed in a secure environment for a couple of decades to ensure that they aren't ISIS, and they won't have to be given TV, AC or even 3 meals a day, saving US taxpayers money.
10k? Send them to NYC with no announcement - who'd notice? Hell, they won' t even notice. Dirty over crowded full of Jews, Arabs and Christians. I'm sure they will find the prisons on their own
Live with it Yanks. You start wars all over the god damn planet grabbing resources, creating debt and make axcuses for why it aint your fault.
Yeah, except it's not us doing it, not our will being done, and not in our power to stop.
Yeah, except currently the Brits, the French, and many other "innocent" Euro fags are bombing the shit out of Syria, Libya and god knows what else.
Even the Australians are bombing Syria.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-12/islamic-state-australian-war-plane...
Don't know what "disappeared" from Google means but I found photos and hundreds of references with one click.
Overlooked is Russia's involvement in the ME Arab spring. With its military support of Syrian and Iranian Shia governments and those governments sponsorship of ME terrorism, Russia is indirectly responsible for the carnage and subsequent refugee crisis in Europe. Now with it moving ground troops into Syria and prolonging the Syrian civil war, Russia is greatly exacerbating the refugee crisis. Something needs to be done to stop this military and terror-supporting adventurism.
Overlooked .... how nice ?
You say Russia is indirectly responsible. Well, America is directly responsible. The Iraq war and its aftermath cost 1.5 million people there their lives. And then there is Lybia and Syria. US intervention caused death, destruction and mayhem in the ME.
Hey you goddam shit for brains asswipe. Our man Vlad is going to do the job you pussies won't do. Wipe out ISIS .
You are the worlds first asshole baby so you are full of shit.
Beat it you son of a bitch. Shoooooooooooo
Our man Vlad
But you told me you weren't Russian. Well it could be true. They just pay you. Or perhaps you are a true believer and do it for free.
A Russian would know the dimunitive of Vladimir is not Vlad. They seem to pay great attention to the patronimic part of the name so I guess they would say 'Vladimir Vladimirovitch'
Overlooked is America/Israel's involvement in the ME Arab Spring.
Their playbook was published in 1982.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a 'psychological weapon' in chilling echo of Gaddafi's prophecy that the Mediterranean 'will become a sea of chaos' 2/18/15
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2958517/The-Mediterranean-sea-chaos-Gaddafi-s-chilling-prophecy-interview-ISIS-threatens-send-500-000-migrants-Europe-psychological-weapon-bombed.html#ixzz3lhQlS71l
you can not be this stupid
The US excels at two things - mass murder and mass stupidity.
By the US, I am assuming that you mean the few elitist parasites who control the US government and its policies. The American people are ignorant (not stupid), peaceful and trusting and that is their main fault.
What does a corrupt and belligerent government do with peaceful and trusting populace? ... They use them and try to corrupt them.
I have a semi-relative who retired from the special forces not too long ago. The first time he went to Afghanistan years ago, he thought he was doing something good for the people. He came back and told us about the poeple and the efforts to help them.
Now, after his official retirement, he is working for a contractor outside of the US military and will be going back to the middle east for a while to train (whomever), but hoping that he can earn enough money on this job so that he can get out and start his own business and never look back. He is smart enough not to talk about things, but his thoughts come through in his actions.
I voted for Ron Paul
Dont fucking blame me
Stop it I'm getting misty. I don't give a shit about the Syrians and their plight (same for the Libyans). I sure as hell don't want them here in the US. You can post 25 articles a day trying tug on my heart strings....ain't happening. Please get fucked with this bullshit Tylers.
I don't want any goddam Americunts in my country. Send them all home
Very Good Article...Philip Giraldi!!
Amongst other things (foreign meddling, State incompetence, bankster debt-crises, etc):
Likelihood of war and refugees is proportional to Population divided by Available Resources
Meanwhile, backwards people who believe that a beardy sky-man grants authority for some beardy ground-men to punish you for non-compliance, are busy breeding. So don't expect this to pass, be a once off, or a temporary crisis. Welcome to the future:
Globally, Muslims have the highest fertility rate, an average of 3.1 children per woman – well above replacement level (2.1), the minimum typically needed to maintain a stable population. Christians are second, at 2.7 children per woman. Hindu fertility (2.4) is similar to the global average (2.5). Worldwide, Jewish fertility (2.3 children per woman) also is above replacement level. All the other groups have fertility levels too low to sustain their populations and would require converts to grow or maintain their size: folk religions (1.8 children per woman), other religions (1.7), the unaffiliated (1.7) and Buddhists (1.6).[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth
You left out Iran at 1.6.
White society is being Muslimized.
It's a population SWAP.
To a genuine refugee that would come to me as an American, as a USMC vet, and say WHY? Outside of the historical issues that are relevant, I would show him why:
https://youtu.be/LUYy2AJwb1s
Certain 2 star U.S. Army generals why; who collaborate with certain U.S. Army Colonels why; who start their own sects outside their memberships of other very questionable sects started by others that emulate other sects, from other lands (across the pond) why. The common thread in all these being psychological operations -- why.
Certain U.S. Senators why; that have the power to shape and guide U.S. armed forces -- why. More than that, that allow and facilitate certain gambling bosses why; to purchase entire houses of national legislators why. And certain chief executives why; that simply exert no interest whatsoever in human morality why; save for their shiny medals from Oslo -- why ..
https://youtu.be/jE2_qmlKFVU
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/11/american-evil-pentagram-propagan...
And, evil for evil sakes why ..
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/04/neo-so-much-more-than-nukes/
http://wantarevelations.com/2014/01/wanta-plan-macro-financial-economic-...
And then why; way too many Americans and other NATO members why; choose to be selective why; and willfully ignorant why; on the entire matter -- why; because they are far too occupied why; with their panem et circenses (NFL and Dancing With the Stars) -- why ..
And then I show him a more complete study why; how these same will murder your 11 year old grandson why, just to get to you why ..
https://app.box.com/s/hfgvcqg7gqh7i27at6sv53ywu87lwarp
And, then the genuine refugee goes -- oh! .. why
And then we both watch some very genuine -- refugees ..
https://youtu.be/dm1gxUrQBmw
WHY? Because we can .. (after all the seriousness aside, we still have to laugh) Remember now, these are Russian -- refugees .. (okay, Litvaks)
WHY?
Did you deliberately make your post unreadable?
Fuck em.
Let the House of Fucking Saud tent the motherfuckers. Bastard assholes.
They don't know whether he will be supportive of continuing the scam.
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If you want to fuck up a wet dream invite the USA into your country.
Fucking set up camp on Dick Cheney's ranch and house them there.
I thought Per Dask was the worlds first asshole baby but I was wrong. Monetas is his twin brother. Their cunt mother had Twins
http://t.co/pTjrseY0j9
a guide to Israel Strategy in Mid East (from 1980s).
so you know exactly who to blame for the mid east crisis
USSA is disease and the human family will have to use the antidote of flushing the clogged up free lunch toilet paper Saudi Mercan petroshit dollah that has turned the global sewer Pentacon economy into a racket for the exceptional nation of psychopaths and thugs. Thankfully Russia and China are finally leading the way.
ZIO USSA - ISISraels's Goon and the planet's premier Pariah State
The anti-Daesh coalition set up by the US and its allies to purportedly fight the terror group is merely a show, says a top Iranian parliamentarian.
He is 100 percent correct.
Our man Putin will wipe out ISIS, something the USA doesn't seem to want to do BECAUSE ISIS is actually CIA/Mossad/Saudi FUNDED and DIRECTED
re ...ISIS is actually CIA/Mossad/Saudi FUNDED and DIRECTED
Don't forget MI6
Our man Putin
Letting your cover slip aren't you? You are supposed to be a former American 'Nam vet.
Does that mean I can't support Putin?
BTW, I am renounced American
Have you actually renounced your citizenship? If so please comment on how difficult it was.
Lots of paperwork at the embassy and I paid 400 dollars. last year, costs 2400 dollars now. because the line is getting longer, and they want to make every cent they can out of you.
Here are some facts, kike roach
The USA is not at war with Russia and I can damn well support Russia if I want. Even help them defeat the real enemy.
Hey DoucheButtBoy? Good morning you atheist pig. Youd make fine food for my pigs.
Saudi Arabia said they will fund the building of 1000 Mosques in USA.
American govt who are the biggest buddies with Saudi/Israel says THANK YOU.
Christer shitheads HEADS EXPLODE. Shit everywhere.
More news at 11.
EU brought a pacifier to a knife fight... US is laughing its ass off
Useless Snakes bring knifes where they should be bringing pacifiers.
Fuck the goddam satanic USA and NO , I am not Muslim
I wipe my ass with the Koran, the Buybull, the Torah, and Talmud/
You might want to try softer paper. It will hurt less.
Bullshit, the old King James leather bound has incredibly soft pages.
Yeah, maybe then he would be less cranky...
The Iranians are right. America (the political entity) is The Great Satan.
I mean take a look at Washington and say it isn't the case. We've collectively allowed the worst kind of scum to become the leaders of the largest military on the planet.
They honestly believe their divine (satanic) mission is to control the world.
Unless the Muslim religion was "made in America," the "mess" over there is a consequence of the murderous mindlessness of their religious beliefs coupled with the fact that our current president is an anti-American Muslim sympathizer.
Horseshit, The USA started all this shit by their wars of aggression starting in 2003 if not earlier like 1990 with your GODDAM Gulf War One. based on total LIES.
So karma is a bitch Fuck you sons of bitches.
Also all the military coups and government overthrows in the ME since WW2, not to mention all over the planet especially in all the coutries south of it's borders. The current state of the ME is thanks to the US with minor help from it's bitches Saudi and Qatar. Many of of the comments have proven the writer of this article correct that most Americans are in a state of kool aid drinking denial believing that self serving crap that the US has only been a force for good. The bad has far outweighed the good but the American penchant for ignorance and a healthy propaganda machine distorts that reality.
It should have read US organized and supported military coups and government overthrows.