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Shuts and Failures

by Michael Maiello

WSJ: Waiting for Ryan and More Middle East War

by NCD 8/13/2012 - 4:53 pm

Link is behind a pay wall, 4 week free offer available.

In a Wall Street Journal Review and Outlook lead editorial titled 'Waiting for Barack', and just below a long and breathless endorsement of Paul Ryan, the editors lament that 'thanks in part to Mr. Obama's calculated abdication Middle East tension and turmoil are rising'. The solution seems to be for the US to enter the civil war in Syria, and green light Netanyahu in his dream to bomb Iran.  In both proposed conflicts the US would be left to deal with the consequences, perhaps by occupation, which is very likely the only way to stop the killing in Syria, or stop the nuclear program in Iran.  Presumably, after unknown hundreds or thousands are dead, 'tension and turmoil' will disappear, like humans atomized by missiles and bombs. We saw this scheme before in Iraq, and it cost us trillions in cash, and tens of thousands in dead and wounded Americans, and it has led to anything but peace and stability.

My guess is, the chickenhawk ticket of Romney/Ryan ticket, will be much more likely to listen and approve WSJ foreign policy suggestions.

Read the full article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444772404577585630644379906.html

Glad the tension and turmoil have disappeared from Iraq

by PeraclesPlease 8/14/2012 - 7:58 am

Same in Afghanistan, peaceful as a mountain meadow at sunset.

by NCD 8/14/2012 - 10:19 am (re: PeraclesPlease)

The editors would probably attribute the "tension and turmoil" in Iraq to "Obama's calculated abdication" i.e. his failure to keep the Iraq war going until the end of time.

by Aaron Carine 8/14/2012 - 12:20 pm (re: PeraclesPlease)

Yeah, pretty weak of him to let them throw us out of our country after we paid for it. And all we asked for was total immunity, which is what we give to our executive branch every day - not like a special deal or anything.

by PeraclesPlease 8/14/2012 - 12:50 pm (re: Aaron Carine)

On the WSJ paywall, I often find that if I type the article title into Google, Google gives me a link with a long url that gives me the full article with an "Article Free Pass" along with an ad to subscribe. While if I access it from the straightforward direct url like you use here, I can only see the synopsis.  There's probably a limit to the number of articles per time period one ISP can access this way, but it often works for me as I don't use the site that often. (I am not sure about this, but The Financial Times seems to work the same way.)

by artappraiser 8/14/2012 - 1:58 pm

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