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Washington Blasts Putin For Russian Strikes On "CIA-Backed Rebels" In Syria
On Wednesday, we said that while even we were surprised at how quickly the Western propaganda machine was put into motion in the wake of Russia’s first airstrikes in Syria, it wasn’t at all surprising to see reports surface that Moscow was targeting US-backed forces rather than ISIS. Here’s how we put it:
Followiing Russian lawmakers’ move to officially sanction airstrikes in Syria, Moscow wasted no time in launching its first round of air raids. In turn, the West wasted no time in contending that Russia is targeting areas that aren’t known to be strategically significant for ISIS. Here’s a look at two headlines which do a nice job of summarizing all of the rhetoric which you’re about to hear emanating ceaselessly from every corner of the Western world in the coming days and weeks:
- U.S. IS CONCERNED RUSSIA'S INTENT IS PROTECTING ASSAD: KERRY
- U.S. HAS 'GRAVE CONCERNS' IF RUSSIA STRIKES OUTSIDE ISIL AREAS
And here’s WSJ with a sneak peek at the new narrative which Washington will be working hard to refine:
Russian President Vladimir Putin inserted his country directly into Syria’s war Wednesday, as Russian forces launched their first airstrikes against what Moscow said were Islamic State targets in the Middle Eastern nation.
But Western leaders raised doubts about whether Russia really intended to take the fight to Islamic State, or merely broaden the Syrian regime’s offensive against a wide range of other opponents.
But with the exception of the area east of the town of Salamiyah in Hama province, none of the areas listed by the Syrian regime have a known presence of Islamic State fighters. They are largely dominated by relatively moderate rebel factions and Islamist groups like Ahrar al-Sham and the al Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front.
And then Reuters jumped on the bandwagon, saying that based on a Skype interview with rebel commanders, it was clear that Russian warplanes were deliberately targeting anti-regime forces other than ISIS.
The point here isn't to suggest that Moscow isn't targeting other rebel factions operating in Syria, it's to say that i) Russia has never made a secret of its intentions to bolster Assad by routing any extremist elements aiming to overthrow the government in Damascus, and ii) the idea that the US and its regional allies are a good judge of who is a "moderate" rebel and who is or will end up being a terrorist is laughable. Indeed, thanks to the brutality of ISIS, the "moderate" label is now being openly applied to al-Qaeda (see the WSJ article cited above) which would appear to suggest that Washington would prefer a Syria run by Ayman al-Zawahiri rather than Assad.
Well on Thursday the media propaganda machine kicked into high gear as WSJ is now effectively chiding Russia for hitting areas controlled in part by "CIA-backed rebels". Here's more:
Russia launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, catching U.S. and Western officials off guard and drawing new condemnation as evidence suggested Moscow wasn’t targeting extremist group Islamic State, but rather other opponents of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
One of the airstrikes hit an area primarily held by rebels backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and allied spy services, U.S. officials said, catapulting the Syrian crisis to a new level of danger and uncertainty. Moscow’s entry means the world’s most powerful militaries—including the U.S., Britain and France—now are flying uncoordinated combat missions, heightening the risk of conflict in the skies over Syria.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Russia’s approach to the Syrian war—defending Mr. Assad while ostensibly targeting extremists—was tantamount to “pouring gasoline on the fire.”
“I have been dealing with them for a long time. And this is not the kind of behavior that we should expect professionally from the Russian military,” Mr. Carter said at a Pentagon news conference.
The U.S. and its allies were angry at the Russians on many scores: that they are supporting Mr. Assad; that they aren’t coordinating their actions with the existing, U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition; that they provided terse notice only an hour before their operations; that they demanded the U.S. coalition stay out of Syrian airspace; and that they struck in areas where anti-Assad rebels—not Islamic State—operate.
“It does appear that they were in areas where there probably were not ISIL forces, and that is precisely one of the problems with this whole approach,” said Mr. Carter, the U.S. defense chief.
It would be a "problem with the approach" if your aim wasn't to restore the Assad regime, but because that is Russia's explicit (not secret, and not "mysterious", as Washington insists) aim, there's no "problem" with it at all.
Back to WSJ for the inevtiable comparisons with Crimea and Ukraine:
The U.S. spy agency has been arming and training rebels in Syria since 2013 to fight the Assad regime. Rebels who receive support under a separate arming and training program run by the Pentagon weren’t in areas targeted by Russia in its initial strikes, the officials said.
The combination of unpredictable, unilateral action that flouted Western exhortations posed an unmistakable resemblance to Ukraine, where Mr. Putin moved to annex the Crimea region and has defied international demands to halt its support for separatists.
Mr. Putin’s decision-making in Syria mirrors the way he has approached Ukraine, said Andrew Weiss, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“He deliberately tries to do things to throw opponents off balance and he’s always trying to get some sort of element of surprise and tactical advantage over people, that’s sort of what keeps him going is this constant springing surprises and flipping events in his favor,” said Mr. Weiss, who worked on Russia policy in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.
Yes, an "unmistakable resemblance to Ukraine," much like Washington's approach to ousting Assad by training and arming extremist elements marks an "unmistakable resemblance" to countless Mid-East foreign policy blunders where the results of Washington's meddling end up being far worse than the "problem" the US was trying to "fix."
And on that note, we'll simply close by saying that while we have no doubt that Russian airstrikes will contribute to the human suffering in Syria (they're dropping bombs on populated areas after all), anyone covering this story should be careful to note that civilians (women and children included) have been dying by the hundreds of thousands in Syria for years while the US continued to support the proxy armies that contributed to the instability. So keep that in mind when you read things like the following passage, again from WSJ:
Video filmed by people affiliated with local rebel groups and posted on YouTube showed the aftermath of the airstrikes in Talbiseh. In one video, rebels and citizens are seen rushing down a street as thick black smoke and fire engulfed heavily damaged buildings. Then they are shown attempting to rescue those trapped under the rubble. A dazed man covered in blood was lifted up from the ground and taken outside.
“Is there anyone here?” a voice is heard shouting. “I don’t know, I don’t know but lots of people live here!” answers a panicked man.
In another video a naked child covered in blood and shrapnel is shown crying on a bed at a local field hospital.
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China busy cozzying up to Pakistan in an effort to cut off CIA funding thru Afghan drug production. Russia and China have a well thought master plan to rest complete control over middle east energy from the US.
In time Putin will put an unpresidented energy squeeze on Europe that will spell the end of NATO and remove US influence completely.
NWO run by Russia and China.
For years Pakistan has been buying Chinese fighter aircraft, with our money!
They need to buy the cheapest stuff they can.
Ever watch a Paki drive?
Washington and allies have been flooding Syria with foreign mercenaries many or most of whom are associated with Wahhabist takfiri terrorists, and have pretended that there is a 'moderate' indigenous rebel force which would have any chance of defeating the consortium of foreign and extremist fighters.
Washington has no legal or moral right to be in the skies or on the ground in Syria, while Russia is present at the invitation of the legal government of Syria, which is also the least worst option for governing the smoking ruins of US, Saudi, Turkish, and Israeli aggression.
This is not complicated.
The Americans and their allies are literally supporting 'Al Qaeda' and worse for reasons having nothing to do with concern for the Syrian people nor reasons of national security.
As a state supporter of terror, Washington is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. As a supporter of ENEMIES of the United States, the government has committed and persisted in TREASON.
The American People are under occupation by a hostile government acting under color of law for corporate, banking and foreign interests.
Hedge accordingly.
What amazes and sickens me the most is our (US) involvement in the violent undemocratic overthrow of Ukraine. Then our government and media’s lies placing the blame for the consequences of this action upon Russia and Putin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&x-yt-ts=1422503916...
http://rt.com/news/nuland-phone-chat-ukraine-927/
Chinese are already lined up to move into Syria to rebuild it after Vlad cleans up the terrorists.
Sorry, Halliburton, and KBR.
It is un-American to say you are going to do something and then do it exactly as you stated.
It makes it difficult for the “spinners” to spin your actions as secret ambitions.
Additionally, it causes great consternation among the “inteligencia” forcing them to actually understand a situation before creating the propaganda so crucial to misleading the masses.
When there is no cover-up, it makes it difficult to uncover the truth hidden in overt actions by a covert and corrupt enterprise such as the MSM.
Fresh from the net;FOX news is reporting Iran people's army are in syria Right now!...
Thats good if its true. CNN are known liars , though
CNN, Fox News and all other MSM is government issued narrative created using half baked truths, distortions, omissions and lies!
Oy Oy Oy! Stupid goyim mind-screw 101. ISIS is Israeli/US Mossad/CIA created mercenary terrorist group. ISIS brutally slaughter Christians. Mostly women and children. Never touch hair on head of jew. ISIS be controlled opposition to overthrow Assad legitimate president of Syria. Our jew-run international press say terrorists bad. Say ISIS be terrorists (wink-wink). Then Putin backs Assad and bombs terrorist ISIS. Should be good Putin kill terrorist ISIS. But ISIS is jew Mossad/CIA creation to destabilize Syria and Iran. Jewry try save face by say Putin bomb anything but ISIS. Hahaha. Just like stupid goyim believe our jewsmedia say US fighters always miss ISIS and bomb Christians by mistake. OY VEY!!
How many American reporters do you see on the ground in Syria or Ukraine? Zero
FOXCNNABCCBSNBC have Bozos and Bimbos who only read a script handed to them by the CIA every night on the ''news''/
Meanwhle Russia Today has real reporters getting shot at and reporting what is really going on.
Right and our bozos like John Kerry and John McShitstain call RT News Russian propaganda because they tell us whats really going on with reporters on the ground. Your 100% correct about that Alfred!
I don't mean to interrupt your ranting but I think you meant to say the Israeli department of Information sends out the scripts every night.
So, all the US administration wants to do is criticize Putin? Well, US administration, you had the ball in your hands to get this under control for how long?
Putin: Russia was blamed for killing civilians in Syria BEFORE its jets even took flighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esLP40YQwU4
49 seconds
...and the Twitter photos were taken 9/25! Total propoganda war unleashed.
one of the neocon trolls linked to a al jazeera story about homs yesterdya.
too lazy to find the comment/link but I checked the photo - and it absolutely, positively was not from a russian attack on homs - unless they got in a time machine and went back a few years.
that photo was all over the news.
they arent even TRYING. who cares if a handful of people on a blog or two doubt the msm narrative - they still have the critical mass of fat idiot fox atching, football watcing, beer swilling fucks convinced.
Update :
Soros & his "White Helmets"
Information warfare: Russia accused of killing civilians in Syria4 minutes with Gayane ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVO5yNW67J8
Note Western MSM with their usual ...
# we cannot confirm
# we cannot verify
etc.
Really pathetic .
Does Western MSM really think that the IQ of the general public is less than their own IQ .. of 60 ?
The US$ backed by the stongest military on earth oooohhh wait a min.
http://youtu.be/wZdwExOgvgs
^ this is *excellent* and should be sent, imo, to the Fox/Drudge/Breitbart crowd, and everyone else still accepting the corporate MSM neocon narrative.
This isn't about convincing anyone to love Putin or Russia etc.
No, this is a reminder, apparently needed, of just how much the U.S. Government, with the help of a controlled, castrated media, LIED to get the U.S. To go to war on a sham pretext.
Give it 5 minutes and judge for yourself.
Thank you and here is one back for you as well on how the FED is taking us to war...a different angle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt377DV2BKs
Civilians (women and children included) have been dying by the hundreds of thousands in Syria for years while the US continued to support the proxy armies that contributed to the instability.
Came out before the UN anniversary "festivities" and the fireworks that followed in Syria thereafter...
I can't help but be amused by the Zionist bitch with the glasses and the ugly face wearing a shit eating grin in this!
Enjoy the show dear because it may get closer to your kitchen window then you ever thought possible!!!
http://www.hangthebankers.com/world-war-3-why-russia-and-syria-are-being...
^ And to accompany the video above.
There is only one Quran. There is only one Islam. It was created as a worldwide nation without borders, the Ummah. That was, and is, the command of Mohammad. A Muslim's only loyalty is to Mohammad, to the Quran, to the Hadith, to the Ummah. All of these "factions" are a Punch'n'Judy show to befuddle, confuse, and defeat the kafir, the infidels—that means you.
And that's exactly what it's accomplishing.
Trying to separate Islamic "groups" and put them on a Benign-to-Murderously Terrorist scale is a fool's errand. Enjoy it, until it arrives at your doorstep.
Islam is just another scam to get dupes to give other men power. Just like christianity or patriotism.
Christianity's only loyalty is to Jesus. Judaism's only loyalty is to gold. They are all in theor own ways opposed to peace.
where there are bees, these is honey. Where there are Juus, the is money!
If you want to know more read the koran yourself;
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2008/12/abridged-koran.html
Islam is not just a religion it is a complete recipe for life and is in total conflict with secular western democracy. Stay ignorant at your own risk.
Picture Mormons with swords on an evangelical mission with MRAPS.
Christianity is a complete recipe for life too. Most don't follow the recipe tho'
Andrew Weiss, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
I suppose this "Dual Citizen" is not happy with the current brilliance of his country's nemisis.
Boo Hoo, its about time the tables were turned.
As a white person of English, Scotish stock I am surprised, I find myself supporting Russian, Iranian and chinese forces to oust CIA backed, funded and supplied mercenaries.Well, may be not.
I so hope these NeoCON's face the justice they deserve. Unfortuately they probably won't coz most of them are too old and bye the time we get around to dispencing justice the vermin will be feeding the worms anyway. As the site says "One a long enough time line the survial rate for everyone is Zero. The question is " why do they bother to do it" ?
Evil that is.
Obama, Kerry and Hillary will go down as the dumbest foreign policy idiots the world has seen. How the $@$# can you be surprised that Russia would bomb anti-Assad forces? Possibly the dumbest thing I have ever seen giving permission for them to bomb the very people you are backing? Why we are backing terrorists in Syria...is a mystery as well. The disaster in Libya and Egypt have taught them nothing?
Has pentagon ever defined "Moderate" Islamic rebel? Is it a person who does not believe in stoning to death but beheading? Is it a person who believes in democratic elections but only among sunni men? Has this question ever raised in any of the media and congressional hearing?
A moderate islamic rebel is one who believes in the Talmud. In other words, there are none.
oh boy, there're scared now. Obola, what a piece of -------------- fill in the blanks
So this morning I'm seeing the "Mighty Wurlitzer" propaganda echo-chamber citing "The Institute for the Study of War," "verifying" that Putin isn't attacking ISIS at all; he's attacking Al-Quaeda in Syria, who oppose ISIS.
There are so many turds in this package it's hard to identify them all.
First of all, "The Institute for the Study of War" is headed by Kristina Kagan, Bob Kagan and Victoria Nudelman's sister-in-law. A former aide to Stanley McChrystal, among other cv highlights. The rest of the staff of this neo-con incubator is the typical-looking band of utterly jaded old farts and easily-led eager-beaver youngsters with glittering academic credentials attesting to their ability to think exactly as authority figures direct them to.
And then, it's bad that Russia is attacking Al-Quaeda now? Really, this shit is so hard to stay up on. We hate ISIS, but Al-Quaeda in Syria is jake by us? WTF? Yeah, you'd sure hate to have somebody kill the wrong "Terrorists," wouldn't you.
Obviously, the neo-cons (Zio-cons?) are out in full force to prevent anyone from stabilizing anything in the ME. The dumpster has to burn as long and hot as possible, and the more people who die over the longer period of time, the closer they come to being satisfied. They won't ever be satisfied, of course. Their aim is laid out pretty clearly in Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard," and then warped through the funhouse mirror of The Wolfowitz Doctrine. It's total nonsense, naturally. But it got them great grades in their Ivy League coursework, and they got great jobs right out of school and get invited to fabulous parties, while I dropped out of high school and college and was working full-time and living like a serf before I turned 20, so what the fuck do I know.
People like that make me wish for an EMP. I'd like to see how they survive without online ordering of takeout food. Or in a world where violence isn't something to be discussed in a classroom with ample audio-visual support. A punch in the nose is very different from a great PowerPoint presentation with active links.
And the irritating thing is, Obama the so-called progressive is listening to this clown troop and they are telling him what to do. argh.
"Progressive." You said the magic word.
The American political lexicon has become so perverted it's entirely drained of meaning. Used to be, a "Progressive" was a critic of the Democratic Party, from the Left side. Opposed to overseas military and covert intervention, opposed to the solidification of State power under corporate control, etc. The Democrats were satisfied with "Liberal," which was a misuse of the term anyway because every politician in America is a Liberal by the dictionary definition. But then as Frank Luntz and the GOP made "Liberal" a dirty word with "Socialist" connotations, which is a complete contradiction in terms but whatever, then the more alert of the Democrats appropriated the word "Progressive." So now, a "Progressive" favors overseas military and covert intervention, works to hasten the consolidation of State power under corporate control (Diverting the Treasury through Wall Street, as in ACA, ZIRP, QE; bailing out GM bondholders; etc.).
Obama is what he's always been. A cautious center-right corporate politician. A little better on TV than Hillary Clinton, but fundamentally interchangeable. Neither of them could have won the presidential nomination prior to about 2000, even as Republicans, because they would have been seen at that time as far-right corporatist cranks.
So yes, Obama is listening to the Ivy League Warmongering crew of authoritarian submissives. He is one.
All those neocons are just different heads on the same hydra.
Well, you have to admit that the new guys they brought in were much more enthusiastic than alQaida and they were terrific at self recruiting.
The problems started when they got a little disappointed at being contract labor and decided to go into business for themselves.
Given the fact that they got plenty of brand new Iraqi equiptment and the funds from a central bank in Mosel, I'd rank them as a highly successful start-up business with a bright future.
Unfortunately, for them, a major player is moving to close off markets in Syria by first removing their smaller competitors and consolidating their marketshare in the region. They seem aggressive and serious about claiming and holding that territory.
This new company may find that Iraq has more unlimited growth potential where the existing competition is slow, disorganised and basically ineffective.
I'd rate them a strong buy even with the potentially diminished sales territory because of the superior 'can do' spirit of the management team.
So, you're saying IS is using evidence-based best-practices to synergize efficiencies and optimize outcomes with multidisciplinary teamwork? Augmenting core competencies while tearing down silos using cross-functional teams? They're aardvarks with cannonballs (or is it hedgehogs? I can never remember)?
Yeah, strong buy. Bullish, even.
“He deliberately tries to do things to throw opponents off balance and he’s always trying to get some sort of element of surprise and tactical advantage over people, that’s sort of what keeps him going is this constant springing surprises and flipping events in his favor,”
So, he's a good tactitian and leader, is what you're saying?
That, too. He's also a black belt in judo and he said it taught him a lot about how to think.
But evidently our fearless leaders don't bother to read his bio, so they are always "surprised" about his actions which "don't make sense."
Oh geez. Russia striking CIA-backed rebels? There are only 5 guys left! Just pick them up in one car, tell them to take 2 weeks R&R, and come back after the Russians are done.
I thought we only had 4 or 5 actual trained fighters on the ground? Are they saying that Putin bombed those 5 guys? lol
We were 3 seconds apart. Great minds think alike . . .
yes and their code names are Rambo1 Rambo2 ... and Rambo5
yes and their code names are Rambo1 Rambo2 ... and Rambo5
What is disgusting and pathetic is to read what most Americans believe. They just parrot the bullshit fed them by the MSM
Sheeple.
Traitor
How about we cut off your pension back stabber
Try gettn money from Putin sucker
What? You think Bill Gaines funded a pension program? Alfred E. Neumann would be lucky to afford the cardboard and magic marker to make a sign to hold up at a freeway off-ramp.
Obama likes to take it up the ass, and it would seem Putin and Assad don't mind giving it to him that way.
Win-Win-Win
Assad should announce world wide. ''If anything ''happens'' to me. Vladimir Putin will be the temporary president until he can assemble an election process.
Hey, I like that one. Usually the US rushes in and "supervises a fair election". We all know what "fair" means in the US.
in Iraq, it meant "Keep holding elections until you get it right," which meant "until you elect somebody we like."
Hmm... It seems that Kerry admits that US are training those jihadist maniacs. Shame on you Obama!
Hmm... It seems that Kerry admits that US are training those jihadist maniacs. Shame on you Obama!
USA screams ''Not fair''!!!!!!!!!!
Putin has IQ of 160 and we collecdtively have IQ of 60.
Its just not fair and you hate America because we are not as smart as Russians/
"He deliberately tries to do things to throw opponents off balance and he’s always trying to get some sort of element of surprise and tactical advantage over people, that’s sort of what keeps him going is this constant springing surprises and flipping events in his favor."
Nothing wrong with that... Keep em guessing.
Here is an interesting scenario: US or UK do one of their "accidental" ISIS resupply drops which is promptly followed by the Russians bombing those supplies into oblivion.
Imagine the bitching that will cause.
Although the political spin and news media outcry and explanations of their confirmations will be hysterical to watch.
What's the difference if a bullet through the head was initiated from a trigger pull by an "extremist" or a seventeen year old grocery clerk?
Please stop bombing our terrorists. Bomb the other terrorists.
Alright before all of you russian spooks around here go screaming about why is America even in Syria why don't you be just a little honest about what Syria was up to in the past and who they were involved with.
And yes Russia was one of them. And lastly just remember this, Syria was a suspected place where saddam Hussein hid whatever amount of a nuclear program and material that he was suspected to have. Read the entire article I linked from the ny times and especially the following quote. There's more going on in Syria than what looks like it might be.
"North Korea has long provided assistance to Syria on a ballistic missile program, but any assistance toward the construction of the reactor would have been the first clear evidence of ties between the two countries on a nuclear program. North Korea has successfully used its five-megawatt reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear complex to reprocess nuclear fuel into bomb-grade material, a model that some American and Israeli officials believe Syria may have been trying to replicate."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/washington/14weapons.html?referer=&...
"Syria was a suspected place where saddam Hussein hid whatever amount of a nuclear program and material that he was suspected to have"
LOL! Fuck You.
hey brilliant comment on a accurate statement
can't say anything intelligent can you.
I was flying freight in and out of Baghdad in 1999 probably before you were born. Under saddam Christians were protected. women held positions in govt. they wore normal clothing. and you could drink a cold beer and dance in a disco.
Then YOU GODDAM Americunt sons of bitches detroyed Iraq and installed an Islamist.
FYI, DIPSHIT, Saddam HATED terrorists and Islamists and dealt with them accordingly.
Now piss off, dipshit and thats your lesson for the day
Bring your tear streaked face back over to fox news. ------------>
You're citing an old David Sanger New York Times story on ZeroHedge? You've got balls doing that, I'll give you that. Not much in the way of brains.
Just in the snippet you posted, I count a minimum of 5 standard-issue weasel-word constructions that identify media stenography of State Department/Intelligence agency psy-ops.
In order:
- bald assertions of what North Korea has been doing;
- "...any assistance toward the construction of the reactor would have been the first clear evidence..." (making a highly conditional supposition based on a baldly fabricated antecedent);
- "...some American and Israeli officials believe Syria may have been trying to replicate." Which ones? You mean the spies who feed disinformation to pet journalists on the CIA payroll?
- "...some American and Israeli officials believe Syria may have been trying to replicate." Un-named spooks may or may not believe anything at all.
- "...some American and Israeli officials believe Syria may have been trying to replicate." Or may not have been. You know, at this point, what difference does it really make?
Since you're so tuned in to what's going on, could you direct us to the complete State Department press releases that make this whole mess clear? As the punchline to the old Soviet-era joke goes, you can find out everything you need to know in Pravda. You just have to know how to read Pravda.
Assad protected Iraqi Christians who fled to Syria for freedom.
Assad is an ophthamlogist by trade (eye doctor) and has Blonde British wife and kidsY
You are a shit for brains asswipe. Totally braindead and brainwashed.
Now that is some funny stuff there.
Do you actually believe that??
Really, do yourself a favor and turn off Fox News. Your brain will thank you for it.
Dump the conservative talk radio too. Most of those guys are clueless statists and giant tools.
Charles: "North Korea has long provided assistance to Syria on a ballistic missile program, but any assistance toward the construction of the reactor would have been the first clear evidence of ties between the two countries on a nuclear program. North Korea has successfully used its five-megawatt reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear complex to reprocess nuclear fuel into bomb-grade material, a model that some American and Israeli officials believe Syria may have been trying to replicate."
You clown. Just who was it that gave the Norks the tech? Who actually SOLD them a nuke?
Another Psakibot - what is smoked or injected?
Has Russia bombed McCain yet?
PUTIN 2016
"Because we're done fucking around".
Putin is by far the lesser evi these days. God bless him
this pretty well sums up everything
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=895039907198928&set=p.8950399071...
If the U.S. is dumb enough to shoot down Russian aircraft.... I would be a bit worried.
Just let Putin cleanup the mess Obama created and in 9 months no one will even remember, sorry Obama but the right move is to turn your back on the terrorists you trained in Syria to combat Assad, let Putin sweep the mess under the rug for you, at this point your Administration is so embarrassing one more stain on your underwear wont really make a difference, dumping anti-aircraft weapons into the hands of untrained, unstable radical muslims who will probably turn tail and run leaving those weapons behind for Isis and other extremists to take and utilize is not a wise strategy unless your end-goal is to actually start a war between Russia and the U.S. in the interest of Global Peace its better to just admit it was a mistake to fund and train these rebels and take your losses.
Russia will only put up with so much bullshit, if you start arming the terrorists with anti-aircraft weapons and Russian jets start falling out of the sky you will have bigger problems than some half-baked dictator in syria to worry about.
There used to be a time when if we didnt like someone we invaded the country and killed them, we transitioned from that strategy (which works) to one of playing games... if the U.S. wanted to take down assad it would of been as simple as one well placed tomohawk launched off the back of a destroyer, the syrian govt would of fell over-night.
I would certainly take the stain of letting one off the chain opposed to the stain of being known as a terrorist supplier / funder lol but thats logic speaking and well there isn't a lot of logic running around the white house nowadays.
I for one am greatful the world has atleast one sensible leader who is fighting to maintain global peace and stability.... Putin is pretty much holding the world together at this point while the idiots are running around knocking shelves over in the china shop, Putin deserves a Peace Prize, I vote we take Obamas and give it to him, dont even have to change the name Putin would treat it like a trophy "and this is the peace prize I stole from Obama" lol I could see him saying that while swirling a glass of whiskey and holding a cigar laughing.
Im not anti-american on this topic, just pro-common sense, Obama and the U.S. had every opportunity to do the right thing, and we fucked it up.... and its still not too late to do the right thing ... but they wont.
Sigh... all that being said, if Obama really still wants to topple the Syrian govt the strategic thing to do would be to use Russias strikes against rebel groups as a precedent for running American air-strikes against the Asad Govt (tit-for-tat) (if you kill our rebels, we kill your puppet govt), with some luck the war can be contained in syria and wont evolve into armed conflict between Russia and the U.S. elsewhere, then when there is nothing left but dust and ash in syria the U.S. & Russia can chop it up east and west berlin style to milk the nations resources.
That would be the strategic thing to do if you were not willing to give up colonization efforts.
So far NATO (the MIC) has had no serious oposition and seem to be complacent in their capacity to bring 'democracy' via bombs to any country they choose, but Putin does not back down, he's drawn his own line in the sand and it's in Syria.
DRE:
"Im not anti-american on this topic, just pro-common sense, Obama and the U.S. had every opportunity to do the right thing, and we fucked it up."
hahahahaha
my fave...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BB9f_7px-g
"He deliberately tries to do things to throw opponents off balance and he’s always trying to get some sort of element of surprise and tactical advantage over people, that’s sort of what keeps him going is this constant springing surprises and flipping events in his favor."
This is literally the definition of a consumate leader. What the fuck is the Pentagon's problem?
The Pentagon's problem is that PUTIN is doing it and not OBAMA. What nerve, getting in our way and doing things that are good for Russians!
Pentagram speak for:
"The fucker's too smart for us."
OK, so the WSJ says Obama wants to get rid of Assad. He represents the USA. Me, then, by default. What has Assad done to the USA to deserve this sort of hate? I don't get it.
Another thing, maybe I am alone on this, but let me tell you, I have *just* about had it with the middle east, the jew/islam thing. and I hate how zio-christians suck jew wood so hard like they do. this tri-fecta, jew, islam, zio-christian are the cause of pretty much most of the trouble in the world. the jew with their meglamaniacal long term agenda to take over the world (things are moving along nicely, shalom), then there are the islam dirt bags who feel the need to subdue and conquer the infidels, then there are the zio-christians, that really are an embarraasment, because they have low IQs, and can't even figure out who they are supposed to be following. This entire ME thing is drenched in irony, for starters, and most of this BS is tied to ancient mythology in their so-called 'holy' books, penned at a time when nobody today was around to corroborate first hand their authenticity, and most of those who sat down to write the fiction were not even contemporaneous to the events they wrote about. But if you listen to people 'preach' from these texts, they speak so passionately like it is all so real, and they'll end up killing somebody based thereon.
This is 2015. I can't call myself a christian anymore because of all this, so I created a new thing called Jesusianity, making me a Jesusian. After 37 years of being a christian, when i found out what that means, and finally got around to reading the unseemly post-crucifixion era (~33AD - Present) history on planet earth, focusing on the after-the-fact path of the judahites, its like everything Jesus stood for and against sort of went in one ear and out the other. I cant deny my own experience. One day for no particular reason, I stood in the kitchen of my apartment in 1978 and asked Jesus to prove to me by a sign he was real. Later on that day at ~1:30 AM I got what I was looking for. I was alone, and the experience was pretty intense, in a good sort of way. I am not trying to sell anything here, and I dont care what anybody else believes. My point is, when I connect my first hand experience to what I see was concoted and built up in his name, I suspect much of the bible must be a total sham, because the basis of what passes for christianity today is anti-thetical to the man himself, what he truly represented back in the day, and the vibration he puts out now.
It is my view, Jesus was the first, at least that I know of, at least the most notorious if there were others, to repudiate and stand up in opposition to the entire basis and premise of everything undergirding the entire levitical tradition and the false god of death doom and destruction inserted into these 'books' of what we call the 'old testatment'. Any reference to a 'good' god in these texts that might be genuine, at least in an allegorical sort of way, is inter-mixed with the allegorical evil god, which in my view boils down to the very ppl who use these texts to get what they want, steam rollering over everybody to get it. The devil is ppl who are evil. Evil ppl with evil designs cause the trouble in this world. Get rid of them, problem solved.
I'll give the jews credit. The ones at the top don't believe in this stuff, they just use it to get what they want - power. I suppose the wild-eyed islam radicals might actually believe in all of this, their great 'prophet' muhammed, but to what end, to run around killing ppl, categorizing them as 'infidels' because they were not accidentally born in a particular part of the world, and do not adhere to one set of superstitous BS compared to another, who (back in the day) have their own absurd global aspirations to subdue the infidel in the name of Allah (see Suleyman the Magnificent circa 1550 AD)? That is just naked aggression. If the earth swallowed them up whole and they were no more, it would be doing the rest of the world a great favor (both groups).
As far as the zionist christians, too stupid to know any better, if the earth swallowed up the two primary evil clans as noted, maybe they would snap out of it. I don't know. All I can say is not only are these ancient traditions total BS, they are lethal. I don't care if they were 'deists' or 'masons' or whatever they were, the founders of the uSa had the right idea. Keep this kind of garbage far, far away from the uSa. They *warned* us about the papacy, and the influence of catholicism. They most particularly *warned* us about the judahite. George Washington *warned* us against entangling alliances. Did we listen? Apparently not.
It is completely insane that these ancient BS mythologies not only drive the bulk of foreign policy, but endanger the entire world. Count me out. I decided to follow in Jesus' footsteps and I formally repudiate the entire thing.
And I just completed the new bible for my new Jesusian religion. It took years of research, meticulous study of ancient langages and cultures, and great attention to accurate transcriptions of holy writ. The atheists won't like it, but you can never please them when it comes to this subject.
I have some good news for everybody here at zerohedge (I truly, genuinely love this site, btw). I am going to reprint - for free! - my new 'bible' right here, for the first time.
Chapter 1
1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The End
Pretty cool, huh? A one verse bible.
Jesus is perfect. That is a pretty tough act to follow.
"You believe that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Well yeah, he was a fictional character afterall.
"When i found out what that means, and finally got around to reading the unseemly post-crucifixion era (~33AD - Present), its like everything Jesus stood for and against sort of went in one ear and out the other."
You got that right. He was one of the few that actually promoted love and forgiveness and the concept of not judging others but to look at your own shortcomings first.
Your Chapter 1 says it all. I don't know how the forces that be left some of those things in those books. Must have been because no one read them. :)
"You believe that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Any world view you choose will involve a leap of faith. Are you going to say that all life started when a cosmic lightning bolt hit a glob of plasm in the ocean. So...pick one...and choose wisely.
I chose wisely. life has always existed in some form in the universe which is LIMITLESS> Hard for the western mind to fathom that They think some guy in sky is sitting there 30 trillion light years away. Choose wisely. BTW, ever hear of cause and effect?? more succintly, simulataneous cause and effect
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"Hard for the western mind to fathom"? Seriously? I ran into people that thought this way when I lived in India. They'd come there seeking some form of enlightenment, and promptly get fleeced. Eastern religions and philosophies don't hold any superior ranking to western religions. I would argue that western philosophy is in fact superior based on what it managed to produce (the Renaissance, industrial revolution, landing on the moon and space exploration). Islam would have never accomplished this, as it is content to stay firmly ensconced in the 12th century. Taoism and Buddhism wouldn't either, Confucianism possibly could, but Confucian thought revolves around conformity, not necessarily innovation (Taoism is innovative, but undisciplined). Hinduism? Forget it. They have the manpower to do anything, but until the caste system is abandoned, they will never be able to transcend their cultural issues. Shinto/Buddhism comes closest, but Japan also has one homogeneous culture as an added (I'd almost argue necessary) benefit. Disciplined and innovative, the Japanese culture stood a good chance at doing whatever it set out to do. It tried, and thankfully, failed in WW2. African religions and philosophies are tribal, and will never amount to much.
Sadly, most of the western world has been corrupted by socialism of one form or another on the political side, and credit expansion on the financial side. My guess is that either a high mortality rate plague, or all encompassing war will clear this bullshit away. Maybe a combination of both.
I've never quite seen how it works to graft the whole Jesus story and philosophy onto the stem of the Abrahamic religions. To me it's like grafting and apple tree branch onto, I don't know, some guy's shoulder, and expecting it to bear fruit.
The Jesus philosophy is pretty cool. A mash-up of various philosophies current in the First Century in that part of the world; particularly Stoicism. You could do a whole lot worse finding a code to live by. It's better than what we know of as Christianity, fer sher. Your one-verse Bible works.
I have no interest whatsoever in any of these middle-eastern sky-wizard cults. They're bizarre and evil, just reading their basic texts. Ew. Who would want to be a part of that? The Jesus part is the only appealing part, and it's the part the true-believers seem to have the most trouble with. Look how the reactionaries hate Francis, who is the first Pope I've seen in my lifetime who seems to have any understanding of what Jesus supposedly was talking about.
Whatever. I was born and raised non-Theist. That's not the same as Atheist, as most atheists seem to define themselves by what they aren't than by what they are. I don't feel any need to convince anyone of anything. I spend my whole life trying to figure stuff out as best I can, and that keeps me plenty busy. Actually, everybody I've ever met does the exact same thing. Some people seem to think they get tips from an their all-powerful invisible friend, which strikes me as odd and unlikely. But hey, as long as they don't try to make me say I'll take their pal's word for it nevermind the evidence of my senses and experiences, I don't mind.
The parts of the philosophy that seem to attract you are the same parts I see active for the good all around, regardless of the particulars. So good on you.
As a boy being raised as an Irish Catholic, this is what I was taught about the ten commandments - they could be reduced to two; love God, and love your neighbour.
Russia won't waste any time routing out the "terrorist" and yes, a lot of mercs will be killed. They signed up to be in the heat. Now let them feel the fire! Mercanaries by their definition are immoral. They are hired murderers! If enough of them die, then maybe ex military joes will decide to stay home and refuse to fight. It's a novel idea that mercs have a concience but that's the only hope I see in this situation.
Another problem is the presstitute media. Sadly, most people in the USSA have no idea what is going on in Syria and what the real figh in the middle east is all about. They still have the naive notion, USA good, Russia bad. They can't be bothered with what's going on in the middle east. Can't be pulled away from the idiot box, you know! If they can't see and understand what's going on in the economy they sure as Shit don't understand what's going on in the Ukraine and in Syria. Oh, and by the way, most people in the USSA think Israel can do no wrong!
The special interest groups running D.C. are not having their interests served by Assad; that is quite apparent.
My interests, as a U.S, taxpaying citizen, are very rarely (and only by accident) served by the special interest groups controlling D.C.
I have no interest in having my tax money spent on foreign armed incursions in the M.E. There are plenty of better places to spend this money, at home, addressing our own problems, but then that apparently is not on any special interest group's agenda.
Al-Quaeda is moderate?
With liberal logic Al-Quaeda is more moderate than republicans ^^...
I don't know about anyone else but seeing how the courts work In USA.
I feel terror when a black and white gets behind me.
I used to worry about undercover USA.. but they buy so cheap.2000-2500 a day.. but like someone pointed out that's a extra $400-$500 thousand tax free.
Just like a boarder guard....
And they want us to think our data is safe with NSA contractors Sad
Just think the trades you could do with that data.. anyone noticed the market.. seems like some may have a few in there pocket all ready!
follow the money.
Leader are all sell-out it seems.
Very few are smart but the ones that are.. seem evil~
Question does god from give you for killing and being stupid?
Peace :-)
And now this:
ConflictsBREAKING: Iraqi PM says Russian air strikes on #ISIS in Iraq “possible” - @AFP
01/10/15 17:33
So there's good and bad terrorists?
NO doubt lots of those ISIS motherfuckers behind their masks are Blackwater/XE types.
Kill them ALL.
I love to see that son of bitch, Erik Prince get a bullet in the head.
This bastard is a so called ''Christian'' who wants to wipe out all Muslims.
Personally I would have no problem putting a round right between his eyes.
America can no longer fools the world..
3 weeks ago they were saying ''we must defeat ISIS''
Then Putin comes along and starts the process.
Now those goddam American govt bastards are saying Russia is killing ''moderate'' terrorists.
There are NO moderate terrorists.. Terror is Terror
I watched both 1 hour interviews of Putin by Charlie Rose on PBS. Putin claims that Russia is getting more involved militarily in Syria to prevent a "failed state" haven for terrorists and that is a valid concern and goal. However, based upon who they are now attacking, it's obvious that his first goal is to protect the Assad regime which, while acting to prevent a failed state, also prevents the loss of Russia’s principal partner in the region.
NOTE that I'm not supporting either side in this, I'm just pointing out the primary motive of Russia which, just as with the western forces, is NOT altruistic but simply geopolitical AS ALWAYS.
The western efforts to destroy the Assad regime will probably result in exactly the same sort of mess that deposing dictators in Iraq, Libya, and Egypt has had which makes one wonder if that isn't the unstated goal - keep the Middle East in turmoil knowing that no matter who is in charge, they'll still be willing to sell their oil. After the results in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Afghanistan, unless that's the plan, they'd need to be insanely stupid to think that the same mess won't appear in a Syria sans dictator.
Russia Starts Bombing Syria, Tells Pentagon to Step Aside
Moscow backs up Bashar Al Assad
http://warisboring.com/articles/russia-starts-bombing-syria-tells-pentag...
I support Assad and Russia and am 100 percent anti USA.
Don't like it? Go tell your fucking Gestapo.
Yet you welcome muslims into your country. Enjoy your pending dhimmitude.
enjoy yours if the Anglo-zionist Empire wins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSy6ENVAJlY
Go brush your tooth , Jethro.
BTW, we have had Muslims here for DECADES. Still all I see is lots of blonde haired blue eyed kids. and the Muslims I do see are slowly following our liberal ways. No head scarves and having some fun (like fucking a lot).
Go brush your tooth , Jethro.
BTW, we have had Muslims here for DECADES. Still all I see is lots of blonde haired blue eyed kids. and the Muslims I do see are slowly following our liberal ways. No head scarves and having some fun (like fucking a lot).
"However, based upon who they are now attacking, it's obvious that his first goal "
First, based on what - what the news media has told you?
Anti-Russian Propaganda. Corporate Media are Accomplices of Imperial Politics
http://www.globalresearch.ca/anti-russian-propaganda-corporate-media-are...
Who do you think Washington's little pets are in the FSA - people who care about democracy and peace and equal rights?
Assad's government is the only legal one - you're a very smart guy, you should appreciate that even were there any substantial force of "moderates" opposing Assad, they are vastly outnumbered by foreign Salafist mercs.
Hence, to the extent they have *continued* to fight the government, they are contributing to the far larger, and even bloodier consequences of the fall of the central government.
>> ergo - if they are fighting Assad they are implicitly assisting Qaeda/Nusra and are legitimate targets.
Russia and Syria have been allied for 40 years. They are there at the invitation of the government
Why is the US there - on what authority other than Imperial hubris?
And I know you said you aren't taking sides, bu tit sure reads like Russia looking after its own interests and helping an ally somehow delegitimizes their efforts - as if American and Saudi and Israeli efforts are for anything but military and economic dominance no matter the cost in blood.
The attack on Syria was planned long before the so-called "Arab Spring."
http://thepassionateattachment.com/2011/02/22/medvedev-arab-revolutions-...
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
The Jewish/Zionist angle to this is absolutely obvious - they fucking wrote white papers about it - but they have tremendous cover because who reads white papers and of course, anything negative about Israel or its Jewish right wing chickenhawk supporters is dismissed ab initio as "anti-Semitic"
Whenever you hear that word - I encourage you to immediately ask "is it true?"
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
Why the FUCK is the CIA backing anything, let alone openly and in your face about it? Doesn't this sound the least bit odd to any Americans?
THEY hate us for our {remaining} freedom.
You misheard. It is "They hate us for our Fritos".
SO Russia is now fighting CIA trained-paid foreign terrorists coward mercenaries, hiding behind black masks.?
The massive control of establishment/msm/corporate media should frighten us.
It's really a lot worse than I imagined. I spent all day yesterday reading very well written bullshit - about everything from who was attacked, to the use of years-old photos accompanying stories about the Russian strike, to absurd claims about the jets and munitions used, to absurd claims about what they hit or did not hit.
The control of media by - to start with Zionists/Jews can not be doubted, but nor can the control of *government* minders.
I know for a fact that CIA works with the NY Times and other large papers. fat dumb fucks.
They haven't fooled everyone - not out in the world, and not in the military. I can promise you that.
But here's the other thing - people my age and younger and maybe a few years older now consume lots of alternative/independent media.
some outlets like VICE and Young Turks seem to have been defanged or compromised - but you still can find plenty out there.
The proportion of people who instantly recognize the propaganda tricks and are otherwise skeptical keeps growing - the desperation of TPTB {state, cia, pentagon brass} was reflected in the sudden lare outburst of stories/comments accusations that anyone dissenting was a "paid Putin troll" {I keep waiting for MSM stories about Israel's hasbara army and wiki editing army....}
We should not feed the trolls
we should simply write "neocon bullshit^" - or nothing at all....
engaging with them is wandering.
Anyway - my point was to be, the usual suspects are going to come hard and fast against free speech and the internet itself.
I still hold out a little bit of hope, not much, only a fool's hope - that the American patriots in the various agencies stop sitting and waiting for things to get better.
No one ever wants to be first over the hill.
But someone needs to remember all the brave people in history who could have taken the easy way out, could have gone along - but didn't.
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
You are quoting Lincoln?
You still have more thinking to do.
Also, I seriously doubt that CIA controls the NYT. Ifvthry did the Bush administration would not have been under constant attack by them. NYT is a democrat hit machine.
Had Obama been a republican the NYT would have been screaming for his impeachment long time ago.
holy neocon agitprop, Batman!
https://www.rt.com/news/317170-russia-accused-civilians-syria/
Anti-Russian Propaganda. Corporate Media are Accomplices of Imperial Politics
http://www.globalresearch.ca/anti-russian-propaganda-corporate-media-are...
As noted, yesterday I did a simple image search on an al jazeera story about homs that our Latvian troll linked and the photo was years old... I mean really lazy, sloppy shit.
They can be lazy and sloppy {think "laptop of death" - another absurd fabrication} because most people are fucking idiots.
The Anti-Russian Lying Machine in Action
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-anti-russian-lying-machine-in-...
This isn't to say the Russian's don't stretch the truth and even lie, but they appear to be relatively more truthful and honest about what's going on.
The way in which, so soon after Iraq, so many of the imports from drudge/breitbart just immediately believe what they see on fox or cnn is fucking amazing.
Doubt everything and ask "cui bono?"
Rape rooms fumigated.
I'm not always a fan of Mr. P. but I like the action he's taking in Syria. For all the bad shit that Assad may or may not have done, he's a prince compared to the ISIS bullshit.
Putin, the pariah, running the show now.
when these 5, $40,000,000.00 cia trainers, sold the equipment, and ran, this should've been a hint, to the rest of the crew to get the hell out, just as in civilian life there are the 1% ers, and the 99%.
DC is fag central.
When are the insurgents that Hillary sold those SAM's to going to use them?
Why do I get the feeling that we are being played? A. Because we are.
The west is rapidly becoming the very thing they fought against and supposedly defeated 75 years ago.
Propaganda, bombs and drones.
Who are the real terrorists?
The place was a shithole before Putin, and it will be a shithole after Putin. The Sauds and EU should have cut a deal with Assad for the pipeline. In the long run, a deal would have been more effective, and a lot cheaper. Paying mercs, and sending ISIS loads of weapons has too many moving parts to work. Plus you are left with a PR disaster when the plot is uncovered.
Wonder how many spooks the ruskis smoked?
Reality check.
We often here from some politicians how great is this country. When you look back in history a lot of great countries are no longer great and the reason is bad management, bad policies both domestic and international.
What is this that makes US a great country?
What the world sees from Washington now is: - No morals, No honor, No dignity, but constant violations of the sovereignty and independence of other countries, by bulling them or staging armed rebellions against those who don't want to accept vassal status to US.
A great country is one which treats other countries equally and with respect.
Does the US fall in that category at present? Definitely not.
The US can be made great again only if the evil foreign policies are abandoned.
If not, the decline of the US international status will continue its downward course.
The reserve currency status of the dollar may be lost if Washington does not change course, policies and approach. Much of the US might is due exactly to the Dollar's international acceptance as a payment instrument.
At the UN Obama instead of taking the path of normalization in the Middle east and take part in a united front against terrorism, he chose the opposite one.
If you want to know what Obama will do in the middle east one may ask himself, what evil can be done in this region, and that actually will be Obama's choice.
It is true, only death and destruction are the results of his policies.
May God Bless America with smart leadership in the next elections.
Smart leadership? In the election? Who exactly is going to be on the ballot that will give us this smart leadership?
Reality check.
We often here from some politicians how great is this country. When you look back in history a lot of great countries are no longer great and the reason is bad management, bad policies both domestic and international.
What is this that makes US a great country?
What the world sees from Washington now is: - No morals, No honor, No dignity, but constant violations of the sovereignty and independence of other countries, by bulling them or staging armed rebellions against those who don't want to accept vassal status to US.
A great country is one which treats other countries equally and with respect.
Does the US fall in that category at present? Definitely not.
The US can be made great again only if the evil foreign policies are abandoned.
If not, the decline of the US international status will continue its downward course.
The reserve currency status of the dollar may be lost if Washington does not change course, policies and approach. Much of the US might is due exactly to the Dollar's international acceptance as a payment instrument.
At the UN Obama instead of taking the path of normalization in the Middle east and take part in a united front against terrorism, he chose the opposite one.
If you want to know what Obama will do in the middle east one may ask himself, what evil can be done in this region, and that actually will be Obama's choice.
It is true, only death and destruction are the results of his policies.
May God Bless America with smart leadership in the next elections.
"May God Bless America with smart leadership in the next elections"
There's NO hope of that & there is NO God - - Believing in fairy tales is part of the American problem.
"Fourteen years and countless false flag terror operations later, the US government is on the verge of toppling Syria using Al-Qaeda military-intelligence assets.The US now openly supports and arms Al-Qaeda all over the world. The very same Al-Qaeda terrorists that were “responsible for 9/11” are the West’s finest foot soldiers and military-intelligence assets. Al-Qaeda effectively controls two-thirds of Syria for the Anglo-American empire. Libya was overthrown by the same forces"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/911-eternal-pretext-eternal-war/5475419Dear Barry Soetoro,
Here's a suggestion. If you truly want to redeem yourself, and add some points in the plus column; do the following:
1) Ask for Ash Carter's resignation. No reason. Just demand it. Your the president. You're his boss. Just do it.
2) Coax back Chuck Hagel. You know he was right all along. Grow a backbone and just do it.
3) Coax back Gen. Allen. Let him know that he has free reign, under Gen. Dunford, and newly reappointed SECDEF Hagel, in full cooperation with the Russian Federation and President Assad of Syria, to take out the Frankenstein monster the US., Israel, and Saudi Arabia created. If this means direct action ops in The Woodlands and Irving, Texas, then so be it.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/29/vts-secret-mission-to-syria/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/23/the-secret-isis-safe-havens-nobo...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/25/chuck-hagel-us-should-consider-e...
https://youtu.be/jE2_qmlKFVU
Sincerely,
We The People
P.S. These actions will go a long way in your upcoming plea bargain, post your prosecution and conviction. You do not want to consider the alternative at his particular time.
And then you woke up.