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All we got to do is give guns

NCD — Thu, 30 May 2013 22:02:47 +0000

All we got to do is give guns to the good guys and bomb the bad guys. It worked so well in Iraq and Afghanistan. John McCain can pick 'em out, we might even make him plenipotentiary ruler of the Middle East.

For once I am 100% behind Israel 'aggression' and use of force. If there really are advanced Russian missiles coming into Syria, with range to hit planes over Israel, the Israeli's should take them out along with any Russians dumb enough to hang around. This isn't like the Turkish/Gaza boat lift.

Yup, no map. The author

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:16:28 +0000

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Yup, no map. The author attempted to substitute a thousand words for a picture which hasn't been drawn yet. I thought he did a pretty good job though of describing the bloody pallet from which the picture will be composed while showing how thick the fog is between us and our understanding of the mix of forces which are tearing at the fabric of an entire region of the globe inhabited by peoples who have reasons dropping out of the sky daily, nightly, and in between, to hate us with the same fervor that they hate their local enemies. And, from the point of view of those peoples who do hate us, is there any reason for them to answer the question of whether they hate us for who we are or whether they hate us for what we do? Is there even any sensible reason for them to attempt to differentiate "who we are" from "what we do" when we democratically elect leaders who continue to do the same damned things?

The rebel forces in Syria will hope for the success of the murderously stupid, tired, sick, damaged, old hawk McCain and will strive to give him ammunition to use in his war-mongering so that he will help them get ammunition for their war, but there is no reason to believe that he will make any genuine friends among them or any others in the region or alter any of their attitudes regarding us for the better. Expecting that requires us to believe that they are stupid and cannot see what he either always has been, or what he has become, or what he represents, and unfortunately, who he represents. To them, at least, he represents you and me.

I don't see a new map at the

NCD — Thu, 30 May 2013 00:33:45 +0000

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I don't see a new map at the link...?

Why not let John McCain redraw the map while he is over there?

From ALMONITOR: So what

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 29 May 2013 20:48:20 +0000

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From ALMONITOR:

So what went wrong? Or to be more accurate, where did we go wrong? How did a once inspirational and noble popular uprising calling for freedom and basic human rights degenerate into an orgy of bloodthirsty sectarian violence, with depravity unfit for even animals? Was it inevitable and wholly unavoidable, or did it not have to be this way?

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/syria-revolution-alepp...

This seems to be

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 29 May 2013 17:55:39 +0000

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This seems to be dispassionate analysis and there is a lot presented that makes a lot of sense to me, at least in concept. I, of course, cannot know nearly enough to judge many of the details of what he puts forth as facts and his predictions are only that, informed guesses. Worth a read, IMO.