"He’d returned to active duty after the death of a friend, like himself a former Marine, who was the co-pilot of the plane that hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11." Er, I think this is garbled.
"So the US is supporting the Shiite government of Iraq, which supports Iran and Syria, against Sunni extremists. But it is backing Sunni rebels in Syria against the Alawite Shiite government in Damascus." -- Right, Juan, and this squarely bolsters what we can properly call the U.S. perpetual war, the perpetual war needed to sustain its war-based economy.
What if North Korea were to persuade the Chinese government to adopt the position that it (China) would support North Korea in the event that North Korea felt compelled to make a preemptive strike in self-defense against the United States? Thank goodness our Congress and President would never get suckered into doing something similar, right?! Oops. See S.Res.65: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.RES.65:
"He’d returned to active duty after the death of a friend, like himself a former Marine, who was the co-pilot of the plane that hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11." Er, I think this is garbled.
"So the US is supporting the Shiite government of Iraq, which supports Iran and Syria, against Sunni extremists. But it is backing Sunni rebels in Syria against the Alawite Shiite government in Damascus." -- Right, Juan, and this squarely bolsters what we can properly call the U.S. perpetual war, the perpetual war needed to sustain its war-based economy.
What if North Korea were to persuade the Chinese government to adopt the position that it (China) would support North Korea in the event that North Korea felt compelled to make a preemptive strike in self-defense against the United States? Thank goodness our Congress and President would never get suckered into doing something similar, right?! Oops. See S.Res.65: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.RES.65: