Its elementary dear Farhang, Trump wants to milk the Saudis for billions and leave Syria, Evil Assad wants him to stick around and rebuild Syria don’t you see.
The regime is harmless, a cabinet of babble heads none pays any attention to. Hillary and peace prize/ Oscar winners would have the world wrapped around their finger and doing much worst.
The battery should not be part of the vehicle, standardized, modular, and easily replaceable by a simple mechanical robot, the cars would be cheaper than their internal combustion counterpart and Exxon, etc.. can fill their stations with charged batteries.
“bamboozled Washington”!?
Whitewashing the holy cow of American politics, A CIA agent was outed and an ambassador and a joint chief were tar and feathered and ran out of town.
Kurdish propaganda,
They refuse to let government security and institutions in which Russia is bound to protect. Turkey asks Russia for permission, Assad propositions the Kurds but Kurds Allied with Americans refused. Erdogan knows Assad will survive turkey and its 30k border guards.
Harmony and balance in the universe at last, Trump chest thumping exposes the underbelly of the empire where imperial goons have assembled and supported the shittiest of shithole countries citizens to formulate a more palatable blend. Like Handing out cookies in Ukraine and having upset stomach in Libya and much of Africa and the world.
Iran will not start a war and probably will ignore or protest minor infraction by KSA. Neither side has plan or can win such a war. KSA is at war with itself and Iran has bigger fish to fry.
That the Saudis are rudderless is no secret. But let’s not forget the peace prize winner who turned Libya to a hub of slavery and Yemen to a sea of blood and tears.
Kurds don’t get soft, just wiser. Might be the Barzani clan was counting on bloodshed (PUK blood) to get the big power to force a settlement. Now Al-Abadi has disarmed all and PUK has saved countless lives. Iraqi army did not run away, they were betrayed and massacred to pressure Maliki/ Assad. An Iraqi Kurd fired Al Maliki and Al-Abadi has proven apt in navigating the regions political minefields.
“Or is it just groupthink?”
Yes, The groupies own the building, have improved their Nukes with bump stocks, looking down at the world and the future with contempt.
There is no need for sanctions, its purse string control by Baghdad that dampens the enthusiasm for independence and curtails the Autonomy they already enjoy.
This self serving gamble paid off for Barzani, had referendum been a presidential or parliamentary election, the Kurd would had a strong hand for Autonomy and slim chance Barzani and his clan would be on top, Now Bagdad has the attention and cooperation of neighboring capitals and a much stronger hand. At the end of the day, Barzani’s Kurdistan has to settle for weaker autonomy and a stronger federal role.
“the room of super-power responsibility.”
That room was bricked over and made up so nobody knows,”it” is there.
I have more sympathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8
Referendum is a stunt and a good one, from a long past its expiration date presidency playing Kurdish nationalism for personal political gain. Turkey is building a wall, Iran shooting at porters and Bagdad has just about had it with this relic of Saddam era and the timing is a big inconvenience for big powers.
It has brought Iran and turkey closer and can unite Arabs and isolate the Kurds.
Ignorance is bliss, the question of access is discussed in “JCPOA” https://www.state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/iran/jcpoa/
Christian fundamentalist Zionism is the culprit, it makes us numb to violence and repression and explain the indifference to global warming, rapture will fix all and in fact, the more money, the closer to god.
Kim Jong un will perfect his weapons, forcing Japan And S. Korea to consider having them as well.
Looking past Yosemite Sam for their security, they can set and peruse independent policy and relations with N. Korea, China, etc.. Would a nuclear armed S. Korea and Japan Be in US interest?
Or this could be about Kurdistan and its planed referendum on independence, His views are more in line with the boy king and opposite Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi and Syrian governments. or I would hope Backchannel for Yemen or picking their own /Bahrain social scabs.
“what if it decides it “UAE” likes having Trump in office and goes after the 2020”
It a little late for that. From Afghan, Najibullah to Egypt, Morsi, Yemen and Libya Gaddafi. In Syria too they tried. regime change, coalition, sanctions and blockade are polite words, cannibalizing is more like it.
“terrorism is a greater threat than is al-Assad”
How is Assad a threat to France or US? Is his aircraft carriers sashay up and down French coast or is he pumping arm and training and guidance to French far right radicals? Trump Saves lives in Paris masquerade. Putin use meetings, media and leaks to control the world and congress are sanctions mad and up to their eyebrow in lobbyist feed bag .we are ignoring the elephant in the room.
There is no hypocrisy with Trump, He has merely sugar coated his actions and that is the thing to do to be consistent in our politics /media. Muslim ban is aimed at Iran, tolerating, arming and marketing of “freedom fighters and opposition” is aimed at Iran. Syria’s war and occupation is aimed at Iran and Assad could have been a real prince of Arabs if leaning Riyadh /Tel Aviv, destruction of Yemen, Syria, Iraq and maybe Qatar is aimed at Iran, even some sanctions on Russia /China are aimed at Iran. The history of regime change, imposed war and most comprehensive sanctions in history is clear enough. What is Iran’s position in Israeli /Palestinian conflict?
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE
― Mark Twain,
If I may, seems like you have no faith in 10000 strong US airbase to protect Qatar, or the Navy to protect Bahrain. Would they be just uninterested observer or tip of the spear?
The dirty fossil fuels are heavily taxed by various levels of government. Could this explain their reluctance to defund themselves and do we have to set up a lottery to upkeep the roads.
By mere chance the king and sheikhs and Trump and secretaries and prince lined up almost in a line in a galactic dance. We already know that the gravity of their ego and the weight of their hypocrisy distort space/ time in a self serving curvature and every time they pass on front of the other the dirty deeds done behind closed doors becomes magnified as diplomacy with despots via press conferences.
Illuminating.
Aristocratic Hegemony and Austro-Hungarian emperors! You are too generous. I would call it primitive tribal affiliation, rivalry and interest. Add money and we have, Wealthy dictatorial nanny nations, narrow puritanical religious scripture, √. Fire breathing radical preachers in grand mosques, AfPac caves and online,√. It’s a miracle by Trump that stuff is hitting the fan where every ones role can be seen and discussed openly.
Give me your radical preachers of hate!
He should have said-
I must say that US and UK at times have persuade polices that has put our citizens at risk. We have achieved great tactical and strategic victories, defeated communism, supported and secured the apartheid state and Arabia INC. great, great victories and made lots of money but somehow not satisfying as we have more nuts to crack. We all must sacrifice and all will be safer if we follow the apartheid authorities’ security solution.
-Reserve right change position at will-
These have been colonial moochers don’t know how Trump works. Announce with big fanfare, plans to invest hundred Billion over ten years in green energy in US, trump would commit and lead you in Schuhplattler.
And where is the intelligence we are trading Yemenis kids for. Manchester 2017 happens every day in Yemen by British bombs and blessing so this wouldn’t happen in UK.
Trump is just a symptom, we want to be like Israel, By god we are exceptional and by god they are chosen, thieving and stealing, apartheid and racism and segregation, militarize police and walls, hatred and aggression for the Muslims. Trump is our Netanyahu.
Encouraging? Bombing peter to intimidate Paul. That is our seasoned policy? I hope Japan and South Korea have the final say on how far the military escalation will go including the use of nuclear weapons.
Israel and congress are setting up military aid increase. The attack on Iran is to please and reassure the Saudis and we will use the force of the mightiest military in the world to bomb Yemen. Iran won again!
“Iran is under a greater danger now than at any other time since the invasion of Iraq by the Bush Administration.”
I don’t see how? All her adversaries and competitors are mired in disarray and led by incompetence and no matter what they do, Iran wins. It has been a trend for decades now.
Houthis are legit, before there was Arab spring there was Houthi uprising and they have many more dead at hands of Saleh and Yemenis security services (now their allies) then the 2 year Saudi bombing. But the wanton destruction of infrastructure and total blocked of a poor, food dependent populous, Sunni and Houthi are perishing together far into future generations. The ability to ally with Saleh (can you please verify his sect) and other Sunni tribes ensures the longevity of their movement and all people should be disgusted with this futile punishment meted out. Not buying a Saudi..orchestrated piece of paper you use to delegitimize them.
In between falling bombs, suiciders and their various explosives. al qaeda and their oscar winning performances all massacres in Mosul are daesh’s massacres. Trump’s and our shameless war crimes are Yemen.
“I bet that the law of dual citizenship will be revoked by our Congress even before these diplomats have landed at Kennedy airport.”
Bet the Congress will give them standing ovation and $billions.
Intelligence is over rated. In Bush’s white house, if you had intelligence you would stay out of the way. They had their own cooking sessions with exotic ingredients piped in. in Obama’s you would party from Kiev to Tripoli, then vomit all over Syria and Trump will clear their desk and issue them a fly swatter. His lack of respect for unproductive departments and institutions is set to grow.
And why is that? Assad must go, we went in to Syria to topple Assad and none recognition of Assad and his government are Erdogan follies not Russians. It is his crow to eat and all the vodka and saffron in the world is not going to change that.
“So reducing the rebellion to Idlib and al-Qaeda will be a huge propaganda coup for al-Assad.”
So it’s a win win, the majority of “rebels” using green buses head for the border and the west finally gets its favorite “relatively moderate fundamentalist militias”
It’s a too late for that, but if he was serious, he would have an off the record talk with Trump. Does he want to be next, kicking this can down the road, maybe he rather Obama take it out of his hair. Does he know he be labeled anti Semite and African American might face the backlash.
“Russian observer” observed by BBC? And if Giuliani wants a regime change in Iran, he will have to take a number as there is a long list of people ahead of him some of which have died waiting.
President Erdogan has overplayed his hand and isolated, he is grasping for straws. What groping of countries wants anything to do with him and his self made internal, external problems which looks to escalate on his current course. He has damaged turkey, Its neighbors and the world at large.
Islamophobes the world over are on the ascendance. A push back really, against the disastrous progressive polices of supporting the most violent Islamist radicals for petty geopolitical gains.
Dick Cheney and fellow neocon in congress sanctioned themselves out of any leverage with Iran and let it go at that. It was Obama’s treasury vigorous enforcement, third party arm twisting and using Daesh and al qaeda as pressure groups against Iran and her allies that did most damage to Iran.
Those motley “rebels” were dammed from the get go. If not at the hands of Assad and his allies, then at hands of each other and their backers.
Did Clinton’s support for the “rebels” doomed her campaign?
A child, innocence implied, America is not, more like something soulless, a half rotten dresser you have to take a part to fix with any degree of certainty. You can shimmy here and paint there or you can let Trump wreck the whole thing and now you will have to fix it. I would like to see the faces of the chiefs, sitting on thousands of tactical and theater weapons when POTUS asks them to go ahead, use a few.
No sir, this is just name calling. The high moral orbit you have taken seems to be in another galaxy /dimension or you could see that we have a groping foreign policy, healthcare and monetary system in place. We desperately need a groper in chief without the heavy moral cream and sophistry to leave no venue but change for next admin and it will be cheap, entertaining and safe to boot, much safer then status quo. We want nothing to do with her majesty,
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times” --Bruce Lee
Saint de Mistura won’t be jolly till Syria is Afghanistan about 1990.Where did he get these numbers, pulled right out of his UN flute no doubt. And it isn’t extremely mysterious, it's to protect the source of the PETROdollar, the oily sheikhs and greasy kingdoms.
Some 15 years before 9/11, US was promoting, funding and arming the al-Qaeda type to topple Najibullah government. Some 15 years after 9/11, US is promoting, funding and arming the al-Qaeda type to topple Assad’s government. The simple act of not coordinating with the Syrian government and the makeup of their coalition is telling. And then there is history..Now what’s so absurd about that? Yes, understandably upset, that Syria is not going to pass as smooth as Libya did.
For the longest of time I have thought being a liberal means having an open mind, even toward a fellow conservative “old fashioned”. To call conservatives bigots implies liberals are not so, a lie. Little did I know, liberal means, intervention, military or otherwise, lib service for the resulting hundreds of thousands dead and drooling over the economic benefits a few millions over qualified choice refuges will make in the ghetto. If there are jobs in England or anywhere that the English or locals won’t do, those jobs need not to be done. We don’t have to destroy whole societies to obtain cheep labor. Britain first or America first are the result of such liberal policies.
Please spare us this moral sophistry, everyone knows who has turned a blind eye to daesh financing and if Russia had not expose the theft of Syrian oil and the illicit trade with Turkey, it will still be an ongoing.
And if “mistreatment, humiliation and exclusion by their governments.” Was a license for terrorism, our very own allies in this fight would be in Syrian shoes. Would you explain to this American, what are These American values you are brandishing on and off and how they differ from universal human value. Maybe trump can use them to make America great again.
As you have said, “terrorism” has been politicized, thus causing confusion. Even the federal code is ambiguous with many A, B, .. and such. But I have simpler solution to recognize terrorism (many thanks to various spoke persons at DOS and DOD) if you cannot apply freedom fighting or revolutionary to their action, then it is not terrorism, the late allegiance to DAESH could have been cover for his own sexual conflict and his constant anger worry me about his kid which could have been another one of his victims. Hope he gets more professional care and consoling then his family can provide.
“gaining support in the international community that is otherwise horrified by al-Assad’s crimes against humanity.”
This might be a surprise to you. “international community” know who the bad guys are and who is fighting them.
“Terrorism” the most terrorized word in world, it’s been used, abused and put through the wringer .it doesn’t mean anything anymore, just a label France affixes as the need arises. Whole countries were destroyed by “terrorists” and France armed them, no French men died , so there is no need for another march of the hypocrites.
“Mongols” you say. When Persians were culturing and moderating the various Mongol kingdoms, like they had done for invading Muslims (where would Islamic civilization be without Persians) others invented wahhabism and stuck their head in the sand. As if ignorance is bliss. rooting for Daesh.
When they need money, they will be back, or they could put all their eggs in the Erdogan basket, declare independence and see how that will work out for them. I believe Baghdad will be glad if they never came back.
“Wilayat al-Faqih” cannot be the problem, because none, including the, would be leader or even the leader in Iran wants it to be so. “Wilayat al-Faqih” can surly happen, but in a Shia sheikhdom separate from a Kurdish and a Sunni one. Something Sadar has argued for and other groups under duress from Iran or not have argued against. Sadar might raise hell, but Sistani will have the last word. Much like, “Wilayat al-Faqih”.
They are saying this lady is an American cultural icon, in their conservative, religious mindset, they believe social media, saturated by such western cultural icons are a treat to Persian culture. much like how 007 and fear is the product of your cultural mind set.
Legitimacy does indeed come from the barrel of the gun. The coalition is arming the “rebel” to make them more legit. Rebels kill Syrian so Assad is not so legit, Assad kills more Syrian so rebels are not as legit as they thought they were, invasion and occupation of Afghanistan Iraq was legit, invasion of Syria is legit, theft of Palestinian land and dignity, legit, Palestinian fight for Legitimacy, NOT legit. What a mess, Maybe separating our bastards and free range makes things easier to comprehend.
Well, I for one am delighted that this political stunt and al-Sadr search for relevance (as Spoils could be his middle name and his block a main beneficiary) has ended without bloodshed. A different ending could have been disastrous in more than one way. Respects for PM al-Abadi and his government for expert handling of this foolishness.
They did not left Khamenei, the 40+ years of military, gas, bombs, missiles economic, psychological and the Saudi king’s kitchen sink continues. Even though supporting religious fanatics is a dabble edge sword as evident in NY, Etc..the trade off must have been worth it as they are arming al Qaeda now. So believing al qaeda, Daeash or the west is going to deliver democracy is wishful thinking and championing the violent rapists or their narrow sectarian view shameful.
More like Najibullah and freedom fighters then Stalin and Nazis. Daesh has enemies other then the US and Esteemed coalition don’t you know.I still remember the words of a young Syrian solider” we will finish you” before being machine gunned and I hope Syrian, Iraqi army and their allies will bring truth to those words, right of exclusiveness of Daesh as Coalition pet Chucky doll notwithstanding.
GOP, BAD. Trump, the worst with nothing good. Another swirl of the Libyan genocide kool aid and I see, Hillary, just a class politician if not mother Teresa and Joan of arc, wrapped into one.
“the Saudis may very well be trying to take a page out of the Russian playbook.”
Like building coalitions by bribery and coercion? The Russian playbook only has one page. http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/26351
Erdoogan’ s politics and tongue has alienated friend and foe , any or all of whom, have reason and are well positioned to see Erdogan’s Turkey destabilized and at war with Erdogan. Should we wait a few years and a new flood of Turkish refuges before thinking out loud, the solution is political.
Not all refuges in Europe are Syrian and most are caused by Europe themselves destabilizing government they would like to change like Libya, Afghanistan or even Syria. You cannot just arm an internal opposition and then bemoan civilian casualties and refuges.
If the state department want a mad dog approach to regime change and dominating Middle East, not nearly enough humiliation, the rebel did not even wanted to impose sharia law on the union and we deservingly built a memorial for Lincoln, is it too much to ask that Syrians should decide Syria’s future and not the state department or GCC?
Being from England it should not be too hard to understand, it is a nobility and a peasant world we are living in, hence her majesties government and Assad regime.
Low oil prices will hurt any oil producing country including Russia, but Russia exports enough gas to be standing up long after the Saudis are at their knees.
The Salafist do not need an excuse for blowing things up and destruction. From an old Buda statue in Afghanistan to ancient ruins of Iraq and Syria to the minority houses of worship throughout areas under their control nothing is left standing and a people wanting this for the future of their country or put their faith in political and social stewardship of their country by colonial west and cash and carry democracies will end up at the bottom of some sea or worst, in an European ghetto as a subhuman slave like Libyans, afghans .. and deservingly so.
Its elementary dear Farhang, Trump wants to milk the Saudis for billions and leave Syria, Evil Assad wants him to stick around and rebuild Syria don’t you see.
this should help
https://www.juancole.com/2017/01/outraged-israeli-parliament.html
Chinese don’t procrastinate, they get central Asian gas.
https://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/centralasiachinagasp/
The regime is harmless, a cabinet of babble heads none pays any attention to. Hillary and peace prize/ Oscar winners would have the world wrapped around their finger and doing much worst.
The battery should not be part of the vehicle, standardized, modular, and easily replaceable by a simple mechanical robot, the cars would be cheaper than their internal combustion counterpart and Exxon, etc.. can fill their stations with charged batteries.
There is a movie of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kJHhOPvvQ
“bamboozled Washington”!?
Whitewashing the holy cow of American politics, A CIA agent was outed and an ambassador and a joint chief were tar and feathered and ran out of town.
Being sarcastic,.. not realy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7MMIW78y0
Kurdish propaganda,
They refuse to let government security and institutions in which Russia is bound to protect. Turkey asks Russia for permission, Assad propositions the Kurds but Kurds Allied with Americans refused. Erdogan knows Assad will survive turkey and its 30k border guards.
Needless to say, we are pulling at straws , anything, even setting Middle East on fire to diminish Iran and secure the realm.
Harmony and balance in the universe at last, Trump chest thumping exposes the underbelly of the empire where imperial goons have assembled and supported the shittiest of shithole countries citizens to formulate a more palatable blend. Like Handing out cookies in Ukraine and having upset stomach in Libya and much of Africa and the world.
Happy, Holy, Holidays. Ho, Ho, Ho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4dRYmrJHJ0
Iran will not start a war and probably will ignore or protest minor infraction by KSA. Neither side has plan or can win such a war. KSA is at war with itself and Iran has bigger fish to fry.
That the Saudis are rudderless is no secret. But let’s not forget the peace prize winner who turned Libya to a hub of slavery and Yemen to a sea of blood and tears.
The policy objective is that Iran and US must be kept far apart on any given issue, thus the rhetoric.
https://vimeo.com/195013642
#7
And America is not put first, we are still stuck in the same queue. behind Israel and now KSA.
Kurds don’t get soft, just wiser. Might be the Barzani clan was counting on bloodshed (PUK blood) to get the big power to force a settlement. Now Al-Abadi has disarmed all and PUK has saved countless lives. Iraqi army did not run away, they were betrayed and massacred to pressure Maliki/ Assad. An Iraqi Kurd fired Al Maliki and Al-Abadi has proven apt in navigating the regions political minefields.
And who is to negotiate with al-Abadi, KRG need a legal parliament and president to represent it.
If Kurdistan had access to seas, it would already be another sheikhdom with mega permanent bases.
“Or is it just groupthink?”
Yes, The groupies own the building, have improved their Nukes with bump stocks, looking down at the world and the future with contempt.
There is no need for sanctions, its purse string control by Baghdad that dampens the enthusiasm for independence and curtails the Autonomy they already enjoy.
This self serving gamble paid off for Barzani, had referendum been a presidential or parliamentary election, the Kurd would had a strong hand for Autonomy and slim chance Barzani and his clan would be on top, Now Bagdad has the attention and cooperation of neighboring capitals and a much stronger hand. At the end of the day, Barzani’s Kurdistan has to settle for weaker autonomy and a stronger federal role.
I was wondering if you have a list or china is the only threat to humanity/ US. Who are the other civilizations that are #2 and so on…
“the room of super-power responsibility.”
That room was bricked over and made up so nobody knows,”it” is there.
I have more sympathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8
Referendum is a stunt and a good one, from a long past its expiration date presidency playing Kurdish nationalism for personal political gain. Turkey is building a wall, Iran shooting at porters and Bagdad has just about had it with this relic of Saddam era and the timing is a big inconvenience for big powers.
It has brought Iran and turkey closer and can unite Arabs and isolate the Kurds.
Ignorance is bliss, the question of access is discussed in “JCPOA”
https://www.state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/iran/jcpoa/
Christian fundamentalist Zionism is the culprit, it makes us numb to violence and repression and explain the indifference to global warming, rapture will fix all and in fact, the more money, the closer to god.
Kim Jong un will perfect his weapons, forcing Japan And S. Korea to consider having them as well.
Looking past Yosemite Sam for their security, they can set and peruse independent policy and relations with N. Korea, China, etc.. Would a nuclear armed S. Korea and Japan Be in US interest?
Or this could be about Kurdistan and its planed referendum on independence, His views are more in line with the boy king and opposite Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi and Syrian governments. or I would hope Backchannel for Yemen or picking their own /Bahrain social scabs.
You are being unfair, He is just draining the swamp, might need a second term to make the current crop of politicians look half decent.
“what if it decides it “UAE” likes having Trump in office and goes after the 2020”
It a little late for that. From Afghan, Najibullah to Egypt, Morsi, Yemen and Libya Gaddafi. In Syria too they tried. regime change, coalition, sanctions and blockade are polite words, cannibalizing is more like it.
“terrorism is a greater threat than is al-Assad”
How is Assad a threat to France or US? Is his aircraft carriers sashay up and down French coast or is he pumping arm and training and guidance to French far right radicals? Trump Saves lives in Paris masquerade. Putin use meetings, media and leaks to control the world and congress are sanctions mad and up to their eyebrow in lobbyist feed bag .we are ignoring the elephant in the room.
There is no hypocrisy with Trump, He has merely sugar coated his actions and that is the thing to do to be consistent in our politics /media. Muslim ban is aimed at Iran, tolerating, arming and marketing of “freedom fighters and opposition” is aimed at Iran. Syria’s war and occupation is aimed at Iran and Assad could have been a real prince of Arabs if leaning Riyadh /Tel Aviv, destruction of Yemen, Syria, Iraq and maybe Qatar is aimed at Iran, even some sanctions on Russia /China are aimed at Iran. The history of regime change, imposed war and most comprehensive sanctions in history is clear enough. What is Iran’s position in Israeli /Palestinian conflict?
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE
― Mark Twain,
If I may, seems like you have no faith in 10000 strong US airbase to protect Qatar, or the Navy to protect Bahrain. Would they be just uninterested observer or tip of the spear?
The dirty fossil fuels are heavily taxed by various levels of government. Could this explain their reluctance to defund themselves and do we have to set up a lottery to upkeep the roads.
By mere chance the king and sheikhs and Trump and secretaries and prince lined up almost in a line in a galactic dance. We already know that the gravity of their ego and the weight of their hypocrisy distort space/ time in a self serving curvature and every time they pass on front of the other the dirty deeds done behind closed doors becomes magnified as diplomacy with despots via press conferences.
Illuminating.
Aristocratic Hegemony and Austro-Hungarian emperors! You are too generous. I would call it primitive tribal affiliation, rivalry and interest. Add money and we have, Wealthy dictatorial nanny nations, narrow puritanical religious scripture, √. Fire breathing radical preachers in grand mosques, AfPac caves and online,√. It’s a miracle by Trump that stuff is hitting the fan where every ones role can be seen and discussed openly.
Give me your radical preachers of hate!
He should have said-
I must say that US and UK at times have persuade polices that has put our citizens at risk. We have achieved great tactical and strategic victories, defeated communism, supported and secured the apartheid state and Arabia INC. great, great victories and made lots of money but somehow not satisfying as we have more nuts to crack. We all must sacrifice and all will be safer if we follow the apartheid authorities’ security solution.
-Reserve right change position at will-
These have been colonial moochers don’t know how Trump works. Announce with big fanfare, plans to invest hundred Billion over ten years in green energy in US, trump would commit and lead you in Schuhplattler.
And where is the intelligence we are trading Yemenis kids for. Manchester 2017 happens every day in Yemen by British bombs and blessing so this wouldn’t happen in UK.
Zarif cuts to the point “ Ockham's razor”
https://twitter.com/JJorbyn/status/866484331291791361/photo/1
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3617429/iran-accuses-donald-trump-of-using-middle-east-visit-to-milk-300-billion-out-of-saudi-arabia/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAZhVPpW0AA2iF5.jpg:large
Trump is just a symptom, we want to be like Israel, By god we are exceptional and by god they are chosen, thieving and stealing, apartheid and racism and segregation, militarize police and walls, hatred and aggression for the Muslims. Trump is our Netanyahu.
In other words, she was grounded into a pulp and crushed.
Encouraging? Bombing peter to intimidate Paul. That is our seasoned policy? I hope Japan and South Korea have the final say on how far the military escalation will go including the use of nuclear weapons.
Israel and congress are setting up military aid increase. The attack on Iran is to please and reassure the Saudis and we will use the force of the mightiest military in the world to bomb Yemen. Iran won again!
“Iran is under a greater danger now than at any other time since the invasion of Iraq by the Bush Administration.”
I don’t see how? All her adversaries and competitors are mired in disarray and led by incompetence and no matter what they do, Iran wins. It has been a trend for decades now.
Houthis are legit, before there was Arab spring there was Houthi uprising and they have many more dead at hands of Saleh and Yemenis security services (now their allies) then the 2 year Saudi bombing. But the wanton destruction of infrastructure and total blocked of a poor, food dependent populous, Sunni and Houthi are perishing together far into future generations. The ability to ally with Saleh (can you please verify his sect) and other Sunni tribes ensures the longevity of their movement and all people should be disgusted with this futile punishment meted out. Not buying a Saudi..orchestrated piece of paper you use to delegitimize them.
In between falling bombs, suiciders and their various explosives. al qaeda and their oscar winning performances all massacres in Mosul are daesh’s massacres. Trump’s and our shameless war crimes are Yemen.
Two boy kings meet, break bread dipped in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. Prepared by the big wigs in finance and armament. Yum!
“I bet that the law of dual citizenship will be revoked by our Congress even before these diplomats have landed at Kennedy airport.”
Bet the Congress will give them standing ovation and $billions.
This ban is not against terrorism or Muslims. In line with US Middle East policy, he is engaging the windmill.
Intelligence is over rated. In Bush’s white house, if you had intelligence you would stay out of the way. They had their own cooking sessions with exotic ingredients piped in. in Obama’s you would party from Kiev to Tripoli, then vomit all over Syria and Trump will clear their desk and issue them a fly swatter. His lack of respect for unproductive departments and institutions is set to grow.
It is called “unintended consequences. An art form really, long practiced by the maestro.
And why is that? Assad must go, we went in to Syria to topple Assad and none recognition of Assad and his government are Erdogan follies not Russians. It is his crow to eat and all the vodka and saffron in the world is not going to change that.
Erdogan is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If turkey wants to be part of a solution they will have to talk with Assad, not Iran or Russia.
If that is the case please have US/ UK ambassadors in Yemen to report to the nearest art gallery.
Not just cookies, but quality confections at the next maidan.
Fake news, manufactured news is not new, journalism itself is weaponized. Credibility can’t buy a loaf of bread, persistence numbs our intellect.
“So reducing the rebellion to Idlib and al-Qaeda will be a huge propaganda coup for al-Assad.”
So it’s a win win, the majority of “rebels” using green buses head for the border and the west finally gets its favorite “relatively moderate fundamentalist militias”
It’s a too late for that, but if he was serious, he would have an off the record talk with Trump. Does he want to be next, kicking this can down the road, maybe he rather Obama take it out of his hair. Does he know he be labeled anti Semite and African American might face the backlash.
Its believable, two million for Trump is like two hundred for average Joe.
Another blessing then, probably the only thing that can unite the Iraqis is an encroachment on their country for territorial gain.
So be it. On this thanksgiving holiday, let give thanks for Trump.
“Russian observer” observed by BBC? And if Giuliani wants a regime change in Iran, he will have to take a number as there is a long list of people ahead of him some of which have died waiting.
President Erdogan has overplayed his hand and isolated, he is grasping for straws. What groping of countries wants anything to do with him and his self made internal, external problems which looks to escalate on his current course. He has damaged turkey, Its neighbors and the world at large.
“We're Having A Heat Wave”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxGYdTZaaY
Islamophobes the world over are on the ascendance. A push back really, against the disastrous progressive polices of supporting the most violent Islamist radicals for petty geopolitical gains.
Dick Cheney and fellow neocon in congress sanctioned themselves out of any leverage with Iran and let it go at that. It was Obama’s treasury vigorous enforcement, third party arm twisting and using Daesh and al qaeda as pressure groups against Iran and her allies that did most damage to Iran.
Anything but self reflection on how they got here.
Those motley “rebels” were dammed from the get go. If not at the hands of Assad and his allies, then at hands of each other and their backers.
Did Clinton’s support for the “rebels” doomed her campaign?
A child, innocence implied, America is not, more like something soulless, a half rotten dresser you have to take a part to fix with any degree of certainty. You can shimmy here and paint there or you can let Trump wreck the whole thing and now you will have to fix it. I would like to see the faces of the chiefs, sitting on thousands of tactical and theater weapons when POTUS asks them to go ahead, use a few.
No sir, this is just name calling. The high moral orbit you have taken seems to be in another galaxy /dimension or you could see that we have a groping foreign policy, healthcare and monetary system in place. We desperately need a groper in chief without the heavy moral cream and sophistry to leave no venue but change for next admin and it will be cheap, entertaining and safe to boot, much safer then status quo. We want nothing to do with her majesty,
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times” --Bruce Lee
Saint de Mistura won’t be jolly till Syria is Afghanistan about 1990.Where did he get these numbers, pulled right out of his UN flute no doubt. And it isn’t extremely mysterious, it's to protect the source of the PETROdollar, the oily sheikhs and greasy kingdoms.
Some 15 years before 9/11, US was promoting, funding and arming the al-Qaeda type to topple Najibullah government. Some 15 years after 9/11, US is promoting, funding and arming the al-Qaeda type to topple Assad’s government. The simple act of not coordinating with the Syrian government and the makeup of their coalition is telling. And then there is history..Now what’s so absurd about that? Yes, understandably upset, that Syria is not going to pass as smooth as Libya did.
Whatever logic that can connect Trump with this crime can also be used to ban Islam itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rwdOuuaz90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJ1eDcknRg
What other common denominator makes Middle East, the cesspool of bigotry and prejudices that it is?
For the longest of time I have thought being a liberal means having an open mind, even toward a fellow conservative “old fashioned”. To call conservatives bigots implies liberals are not so, a lie. Little did I know, liberal means, intervention, military or otherwise, lib service for the resulting hundreds of thousands dead and drooling over the economic benefits a few millions over qualified choice refuges will make in the ghetto. If there are jobs in England or anywhere that the English or locals won’t do, those jobs need not to be done. We don’t have to destroy whole societies to obtain cheep labor. Britain first or America first are the result of such liberal policies.
Please spare us this moral sophistry, everyone knows who has turned a blind eye to daesh financing and if Russia had not expose the theft of Syrian oil and the illicit trade with Turkey, it will still be an ongoing.
And if “mistreatment, humiliation and exclusion by their governments.” Was a license for terrorism, our very own allies in this fight would be in Syrian shoes. Would you explain to this American, what are These American values you are brandishing on and off and how they differ from universal human value. Maybe trump can use them to make America great again.
As you have said, “terrorism” has been politicized, thus causing confusion. Even the federal code is ambiguous with many A, B, .. and such. But I have simpler solution to recognize terrorism (many thanks to various spoke persons at DOS and DOD) if you cannot apply freedom fighting or revolutionary to their action, then it is not terrorism, the late allegiance to DAESH could have been cover for his own sexual conflict and his constant anger worry me about his kid which could have been another one of his victims. Hope he gets more professional care and consoling then his family can provide.
“gaining support in the international community that is otherwise horrified by al-Assad’s crimes against humanity.”
This might be a surprise to you. “international community” know who the bad guys are and who is fighting them.
“Terrorism” the most terrorized word in world, it’s been used, abused and put through the wringer .it doesn’t mean anything anymore, just a label France affixes as the need arises. Whole countries were destroyed by “terrorists” and France armed them, no French men died , so there is no need for another march of the hypocrites.
“Mongols” you say. When Persians were culturing and moderating the various Mongol kingdoms, like they had done for invading Muslims (where would Islamic civilization be without Persians) others invented wahhabism and stuck their head in the sand. As if ignorance is bliss. rooting for Daesh.
When they need money, they will be back, or they could put all their eggs in the Erdogan basket, declare independence and see how that will work out for them. I believe Baghdad will be glad if they never came back.
It’s a dream piped with the nightmare, that the sole hyper power and its institutions and allies, pimping for sectarian radicals in Middle East.
“Wilayat al-Faqih” cannot be the problem, because none, including the, would be leader or even the leader in Iran wants it to be so. “Wilayat al-Faqih” can surly happen, but in a Shia sheikhdom separate from a Kurdish and a Sunni one. Something Sadar has argued for and other groups under duress from Iran or not have argued against. Sadar might raise hell, but Sistani will have the last word. Much like, “Wilayat al-Faqih”.
They are saying this lady is an American cultural icon, in their conservative, religious mindset, they believe social media, saturated by such western cultural icons are a treat to Persian culture. much like how 007 and fear is the product of your cultural mind set.
Legitimacy does indeed come from the barrel of the gun. The coalition is arming the “rebel” to make them more legit. Rebels kill Syrian so Assad is not so legit, Assad kills more Syrian so rebels are not as legit as they thought they were, invasion and occupation of Afghanistan Iraq was legit, invasion of Syria is legit, theft of Palestinian land and dignity, legit, Palestinian fight for Legitimacy, NOT legit. What a mess, Maybe separating our bastards and free range makes things easier to comprehend.
Well, I for one am delighted that this political stunt and al-Sadr search for relevance (as Spoils could be his middle name and his block a main beneficiary) has ended without bloodshed. A different ending could have been disastrous in more than one way. Respects for PM al-Abadi and his government for expert handling of this foolishness.
They did not left Khamenei, the 40+ years of military, gas, bombs, missiles economic, psychological and the Saudi king’s kitchen sink continues. Even though supporting religious fanatics is a dabble edge sword as evident in NY, Etc..the trade off must have been worth it as they are arming al Qaeda now. So believing al qaeda, Daeash or the west is going to deliver democracy is wishful thinking and championing the violent rapists or their narrow sectarian view shameful.
More like Najibullah and freedom fighters then Stalin and Nazis. Daesh has enemies other then the US and Esteemed coalition don’t you know.I still remember the words of a young Syrian solider” we will finish you” before being machine gunned and I hope Syrian, Iraqi army and their allies will bring truth to those words, right of exclusiveness of Daesh as Coalition pet Chucky doll notwithstanding.
GOP, BAD. Trump, the worst with nothing good. Another swirl of the Libyan genocide kool aid and I see, Hillary, just a class politician if not mother Teresa and Joan of arc, wrapped into one.
“the Saudis may very well be trying to take a page out of the Russian playbook.”
Like building coalitions by bribery and coercion? The Russian playbook only has one page.
http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/26351
Yes, he is not racist, “he hates everybody equally”
Erdoogan’ s politics and tongue has alienated friend and foe , any or all of whom, have reason and are well positioned to see Erdogan’s Turkey destabilized and at war with Erdogan. Should we wait a few years and a new flood of Turkish refuges before thinking out loud, the solution is political.
Not all refuges in Europe are Syrian and most are caused by Europe themselves destabilizing government they would like to change like Libya, Afghanistan or even Syria. You cannot just arm an internal opposition and then bemoan civilian casualties and refuges.
If the state department want a mad dog approach to regime change and dominating Middle East, not nearly enough humiliation, the rebel did not even wanted to impose sharia law on the union and we deservingly built a memorial for Lincoln, is it too much to ask that Syrians should decide Syria’s future and not the state department or GCC?
Being from England it should not be too hard to understand, it is a nobility and a peasant world we are living in, hence her majesties government and Assad regime.
Shouldn’t he call for elections first?
Low oil prices will hurt any oil producing country including Russia, but Russia exports enough gas to be standing up long after the Saudis are at their knees.
The Salafist do not need an excuse for blowing things up and destruction. From an old Buda statue in Afghanistan to ancient ruins of Iraq and Syria to the minority houses of worship throughout areas under their control nothing is left standing and a people wanting this for the future of their country or put their faith in political and social stewardship of their country by colonial west and cash and carry democracies will end up at the bottom of some sea or worst, in an European ghetto as a subhuman slave like Libyans, afghans .. and deservingly so.