The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Coalition of the whom?

    By Flavius on Sun, 09/14/2014 - 5:12pm |

    How should any  Sunni neighbors be willing to join Obama's Coalition? Particularly since they don't actually have to reject us, just condition their participation on a quid for which we can't come up with the quo. For example our requiring Bibi to make  some reasonable sounding but impossible concession e.g.calling off last weeks announcement of a significant settlement expansion in Gvaot,(Don't hold your breath).

    As Richard Pryor used to  correctly say  about the US legal system " It's not justice, it's just us".( My Pryor LP's cover showed him tied to a stake,  faggots about his feet and someone approaching with a match, and the title: "Was it something I said?) 

    Comments

    With all the conflicts of interest being played out by all the parties involved, it is not surprising that Sunni neighbors are unwilling to dive into another U.S. lead operation against a very particular group of bad.

    It may be more effective to make deals that address why these bad folks have cash in hand. There are reports of efforts to curtail oil smuggling to Turkey

    The article talks about why the efforts are stalled. This would be a good time to make deals that got past that spot of bother.

    And if that kind of thinking addresses the problem in that case, perhaps the method could be used to arrange other deals that could speak to others who wonder what the operation against this particular outfit does for them.

    The common assumption that there is no possible quid pro quo has yet to be tested by someone making an offer.


    by moat on Sun, 09/14/2014 - 9:04pm

    just condition their participation on a quid for which we can't come up with the quo.

    Bonds?


    by Resistance on Sun, 09/14/2014 - 11:26pm