I suggest we pervasively convey the message of an NSA capable of planting false evidence, so pervasively convey it that any charges are doubted by the average person- in- the- street.
I realize you want to pick your fights with the neocons carefully, Prof., but you would have a hard time proving the
oil lobby politicked for the war as hard (not to mention as dishonestly) as THE Lobby.
Right about Cruz. He's trying to subtly win over the marginally anti-imperial Rand Paul people. Paul should point out Cruz has never repudiated the Iraq War, even if he believes he must cooperate with him on certain issues.
Why don't the more prominent and other of the 39& Jews who are only "somewhat" attached to Israel come to the politician's aid?
I would suspect, while not denying the assimilation rate
is significaant, that among the 39% and among the "neolib" Jews who do not identify with the Likud, there are still a dominant majority who would reject a scheme to transform Israel to a true democracy with no rabbinical (or Shariah) Law.
Saying it was likely as small as 2 million, and that it was not intentional but functional (as does Princeton historian Arno Mayer in his book Why Did The Heavens Not Darken) might well be enough to get you jailed in "free" Germany.
You're way off, Mario. Why not an embargo on Saudi and others sending takfiris to Syria? Nato? It shouldn't even exist; it should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact collapsed. I guess you're in favor of the embargo on Iran too. It seems you are more concerned about the Moscow-Hezbollah-Damascus-Iran bloc than anything else. Israel likes your attitude.
Gore would not have gone to Iraq and/or Afghanistan? Has Nader ever conceded that? If not, I certainly don't.
Neolibs like Hillary and Pelosi have proven time and again they are alsmost as hawkish as neocons. The ONLY candidate a Democratic antiwar activist, and left-liberal on other issues could have trusted and voted for is Dennis Kucinich. Dean? No, not even Dean.
I don't believe the self-abnegation of higher religion can be confused with runaway materialism. Even 19th century apocalyptics though not higher religion, didn't push material acquisition.
yes, well nothing in the Obama-Bush-Cheney era suggests
Snowden would have received a modicum of fairness had he remained here.
China? Russia? The world certainly needs a multipolar spread of power now, considering how US imperialism has misused its dominance.
A preferable scenario would be, Obama cuts off funds, Russia steps in to fill the gap, but with a strings-attached policy, and it wouldn't be continung the Camp David treaty.
Russia's political class and Putin's Eurasian project is much more likely to build stability in the Mideast than America's Zionist-occupied and incompetent besides ruling class.
Ah, nostalgia. You're taking us back. Back even before the the time when all of Obama's "left" supporters seemed to assume if elected he would use the bully pulpit to get the legal gears in motion for trial and punishment of war crimes rather than the "let's move on" theme which assisted him in , e.g., increasing drastically his enemy-making drone campaign and his completely unproductive surge in Afghanistan.
Yes, times have changed, Peter-we have an Empire now....the kind our Forefathers despised. And Empires make enemies.
And to protect against enemies you have to have a police state. Maybe you should advocate dismantling the bases in the Mideast and bringing the troops home as the enemies then dramatically decline in number.
PS. You should have had a twinge of discomfort also,if not a sinking feeling, when you heard about Obama's surge in Afghanistan and perhaps a shiver at the latest Obama drone....
There were only two anti-Elite, non-imperialist candidates in the past two elections in the major parties.
Candidates which are not members of what we can call the "political class."
They were Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.
Voting for anyone to the right (even Dean) or left of them respectively was a vote for the hawkish continuation of Empire and its Zionist junior partner.
Before Christopher Hitchens became a turncoat, he did a pretty good job in exposing all the "good" that Bill did for the country from a left-liberal perspective. Read his book.
I'm not sure it included the deregulation of finance though, which paved the way to the Great Recession.
What makes you believe Hillary doesn't agree with him?
She voted for the Iraq War and hoped for a quick victory, even if no WMDs were found, assuming a US puppet, pro-Israel government would emerge.
Such is the weakness of gender politics, all the Hillary PUMAS backing her as a progressive.
American globalist interventionism is actually more revolutionary--and not in a contructive way-- than was Great Russian national imperialism, propped by an unadhered to ideological Marxist-Leninism.
Opinion polls of Iraqis, taken after the US exited and shortly before, show the majority of Iraqis do NOT believe the US had the right to invade; this includes even Saddam's opponents.
But Abdullah's tone suggest that of a Western liberal interventionist Elitist whose opinion he believes matters more than that of those directly involved.
Prof Cole--You did not really mean, above "all Shiites are Alawites" in your response to Cheers from Morocco.
But I'm not sure what you indeed meant, since you already had delineated a distinction between Shiiism and "folk Shiism."
However, though probably not relevant to the current conflict, I have read of an "orthodox Alawite" leader
currently motivated to reinvigorate the orthodox Alawite
doctrine, perhaps shied away from in the late 20th century-that Ali is God the Creator.
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I suggest we pervasively convey the message of an NSA capable of planting false evidence, so pervasively convey it that any charges are doubted by the average person- in- the- street.
Thank Putin and Russia for checkmating the Empire on Syria, elsewise Obama would have continued doing Israel's bidding.
link to angryarab.blogspot.com
By way of amplification.
Sorry. If the Saudis and Israelis are in tacit alliance, no harm in alerting Sunnis who oppose this alliance.
If Feinstein found that the NSA had suddenly cut off Israel from data-sharing, that would get her good and indignant.
Israel is tha main reason the Arab street hates the US
and the repositioning certainly had something to do with this hate.
I realize you want to pick your fights with the neocons carefully, Prof., but you would have a hard time proving the
oil lobby politicked for the war as hard (not to mention as dishonestly) as THE Lobby.
Right about Cruz. He's trying to subtly win over the marginally anti-imperial Rand Paul people. Paul should point out Cruz has never repudiated the Iraq War, even if he believes he must cooperate with him on certain issues.
Why don't the more prominent and other of the 39& Jews who are only "somewhat" attached to Israel come to the politician's aid?
I would suspect, while not denying the assimilation rate
is significaant, that among the 39% and among the "neolib" Jews who do not identify with the Likud, there are still a dominant majority who would reject a scheme to transform Israel to a true democracy with no rabbinical (or Shariah) Law.
Saying it was likely as small as 2 million, and that it was not intentional but functional (as does Princeton historian Arno Mayer in his book Why Did The Heavens Not Darken) might well be enough to get you jailed in "free" Germany.
so you will be satisfied if a similar period of time elapses in the "throttled down" Syrian war and this is a non-atypical occurence?
link to foxnews.com
link to rt.com
Not so fast Joe.
You're way off, Mario. Why not an embargo on Saudi and others sending takfiris to Syria? Nato? It shouldn't even exist; it should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact collapsed. I guess you're in favor of the embargo on Iran too. It seems you are more concerned about the Moscow-Hezbollah-Damascus-Iran bloc than anything else. Israel likes your attitude.
Gore would not have gone to Iraq and/or Afghanistan? Has Nader ever conceded that? If not, I certainly don't.
Neolibs like Hillary and Pelosi have proven time and again they are alsmost as hawkish as neocons. The ONLY candidate a Democratic antiwar activist, and left-liberal on other issues could have trusted and voted for is Dennis Kucinich. Dean? No, not even Dean.
I would love to see the revival of the healthy classic Old Left.
Hardcore on class issues, conservative on social and ethnic issues.
I don't believe the self-abnegation of higher religion can be confused with runaway materialism. Even 19th century apocalyptics though not higher religion, didn't push material acquisition.
yes, well nothing in the Obama-Bush-Cheney era suggests
Snowden would have received a modicum of fairness had he remained here.
China? Russia? The world certainly needs a multipolar spread of power now, considering how US imperialism has misused its dominance.
"Everyone" in the region? Does that include Palestinians?
Have you polled them on the Treaty?
A preferable scenario would be, Obama cuts off funds, Russia steps in to fill the gap, but with a strings-attached policy, and it wouldn't be continung the Camp David treaty.
Russia's political class and Putin's Eurasian project is much more likely to build stability in the Mideast than America's Zionist-occupied and incompetent besides ruling class.
The Army can be brutal because it doesn't fear US aid cut off as long as it enforces oppression of Palestinians via the Camp David treaty.
They're not welcome by the dominant majority on the street anywhere in the Middle East. Keep em closed.
Ah, nostalgia. You're taking us back. Back even before the the time when all of Obama's "left" supporters seemed to assume if elected he would use the bully pulpit to get the legal gears in motion for trial and punishment of war crimes rather than the "let's move on" theme which assisted him in , e.g., increasing drastically his enemy-making drone campaign and his completely unproductive surge in Afghanistan.
Yes, times have changed, Peter-we have an Empire now....the kind our Forefathers despised. And Empires make enemies.
And to protect against enemies you have to have a police state. Maybe you should advocate dismantling the bases in the Mideast and bringing the troops home as the enemies then dramatically decline in number.
PS. You should have had a twinge of discomfort also,if not a sinking feeling, when you heard about Obama's surge in Afghanistan and perhaps a shiver at the latest Obama drone....
There were only two anti-Elite, non-imperialist candidates in the past two elections in the major parties.
Candidates which are not members of what we can call the "political class."
They were Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.
Voting for anyone to the right (even Dean) or left of them respectively was a vote for the hawkish continuation of Empire and its Zionist junior partner.
Before Christopher Hitchens became a turncoat, he did a pretty good job in exposing all the "good" that Bill did for the country from a left-liberal perspective. Read his book.
I'm not sure it included the deregulation of finance though, which paved the way to the Great Recession.
What makes you believe Hillary doesn't agree with him?
She voted for the Iraq War and hoped for a quick victory, even if no WMDs were found, assuming a US puppet, pro-Israel government would emerge.
Such is the weakness of gender politics, all the Hillary PUMAS backing her as a progressive.
American globalist interventionism is actually more revolutionary--and not in a contructive way-- than was Great Russian national imperialism, propped by an unadhered to ideological Marxist-Leninism.
Opinion polls of Iraqis, taken after the US exited and shortly before, show the majority of Iraqis do NOT believe the US had the right to invade; this includes even Saddam's opponents.
But Abdullah's tone suggest that of a Western liberal interventionist Elitist whose opinion he believes matters more than that of those directly involved.
Prof Cole--You did not really mean, above "all Shiites are Alawites" in your response to Cheers from Morocco.
But I'm not sure what you indeed meant, since you already had delineated a distinction between Shiiism and "folk Shiism."
However, though probably not relevant to the current conflict, I have read of an "orthodox Alawite" leader
currently motivated to reinvigorate the orthodox Alawite
doctrine, perhaps shied away from in the late 20th century-that Ali is God the Creator.