Credibility. Oh geez. Are we back to the Johnson/Nixon war-making era? Credibility cannot be bought by bombs. Pulling out of Vietnam gave the USA more "credibility" than 50,000 US dead, Agent Orange deforestation and more bomb tonnage dropped than in the whole of WWII.
Perhaps leaving the "Great Sorting Out" (See Joshua Landis) to the local actors is only fateful option available.
By the way and not to the point, did not you know that the Iranian Administration has more US college grads than any other foreign administration?
AIPAC knows what it wants, has a ton of cash and tracks the going price of every vote by our craven representatives. It doesn't matter what liberal American Jews think. That well-oiled leviathan has them trumped. Israel welcomes Muslim-on-Muslim war in Syria and can't wait until the guns turn toward Teheran.
Geez, shooting down one warplane over international waters is hardy grounds for war. I remember the US shooting down a civilian Italian airliner a few decades ago over the Mediterranean, the KAL flight that strayed into Russia, etc., far worse in my book of provocations. I guess Ergogan has to talk tough to placate his fire-breathing military establishment.
Credibility. Oh geez. Are we back to the Johnson/Nixon war-making era? Credibility cannot be bought by bombs. Pulling out of Vietnam gave the USA more "credibility" than 50,000 US dead, Agent Orange deforestation and more bomb tonnage dropped than in the whole of WWII.
Perhaps leaving the "Great Sorting Out" (See Joshua Landis) to the local actors is only fateful option available.
By the way and not to the point, did not you know that the Iranian Administration has more US college grads than any other foreign administration?
Er, doesn't Saudi Arabia behead prisoners every day of the week? Maybe the US public needs to see a few of those...
If you understand French, see this link for a 5-minute tutorial on the Syrian resistance: http://tinyurl.com/mhtz83n
AIPAC knows what it wants, has a ton of cash and tracks the going price of every vote by our craven representatives. It doesn't matter what liberal American Jews think. That well-oiled leviathan has them trumped. Israel welcomes Muslim-on-Muslim war in Syria and can't wait until the guns turn toward Teheran.
Geez, shooting down one warplane over international waters is hardy grounds for war. I remember the US shooting down a civilian Italian airliner a few decades ago over the Mediterranean, the KAL flight that strayed into Russia, etc., far worse in my book of provocations. I guess Ergogan has to talk tough to placate his fire-breathing military establishment.