[Breitbart] Donald Trump, the Republican Party presidential front-runner, was talking about Mrs. Merkel's invitation to migrants on the American political interview show, 'Face The Nation'.
Mr Trump said: "I do not like the migration. I do not like the people coming". Instead he favours "a safe zone for people", an idea on which he expanded.
He said: "Frankly, look, Europe is going to have to handle -- but they're going to have riots in Germany. What's happening in Germany, I always thought Merkel was like this great leader. What she's done in Germany is insane. It is insane. They're having all sorts of attacks." Graphic compliments of Elmerert Hupens2660
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There's a difference between immigration and migration. For the latter, Western Civ has a word for it - Vandals. Just yesterday, down on the plaza, there were lots of protestors about the migrants from several hundred years ago. Of course, without those migrants, there would be no plaza, or cities, or science, or medical care, or manufactured products, or means of being transported to that plaza (insert Monty Python routine on 'What have the Romans ever done for us' here). Their own ancestors had no problem 'migrating' into someone else's hunting grounds, by force if necessary. It's just that they were overcome by better technology and social organization. Today, its more about the gates of the city being betrayed by insiders who are tired of the other citizens of the city.
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Many Germans are born with a hyper-active guilt gene. Normally this isn't a bad thing but right now it seems to be leading Mrs Merkel into a course of cultural suicide.
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Empirical observation tells us that islamic immigration is a failure wherever it happens.
This is true for classical nations of immigrants like the US, Canada and Australia. It is also true for all European nations with a Muslim immigrant population.
Immigrating Muslims establish the borders of Islam within the nations they're immigrating into.
The borders of Islam are bloody. This is also an empirically observable fact.
Immigration cannot work if the immigrants don't actually want to be immigrants but conquerors of a hated enemy civilization.
No matter what is behind Merkel's actions, be it insanity, incompetence, malice or something entirely different, her actions are objectively gravely harmful to Germany, to Europe and to Western Civilization.
We do not know just who detonated the two bombs that killed 95 Kurdish and allied activists in Ankara Saturday, but the least likely conjecture is that President Erdogan's government is guiltless in the matter. As Turkish member of parliament Lutfu Turkkan, tweeted after the bombing, the attack "was either a failure by the intelligence service, or it was done by the intelligence service."
Betrayed by both the United States and Russia, and faced with the emergence of a Kurdish state on its borders and the rise of Kurdish parties in the parliamentary opposition, Erdogan is cornered. At risk in the short-term is the ability of his AKP party to govern after the upcoming November elections. At risk in the medium term is the cohesion of the Turkish state itself.
In public, Western leaders have hailed Turkey as "a great Islamic democracy," as President Obama characterized it in a 2010 interview. That was the view of the George W. Bush adminstration before Obama, which invited Erdogan to the White House before his election as prime minister in November 2002. A minority of military and intelligence analysts, though, has warned that Turkey may not be viable within its present borders in the medium term. The trouble is that its Kurdish minority, now at 20% of the overall population, has twice as many children as ethnic Turks, so many that half of Turkey's military-age population will speak Kurdish as a first language in fewer than twenty years.
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Hammam. Erdy sweating. Drip, drip.
"You'll know I am done," quips Tayyip,
"As soon as this oven
Gets too hot to govern,
And out pops my little red tip."
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Demographically Turkey is on borrowed time anyway. Kurds breed faster. They should have cut a devil's bargain and invaded Syria to recreate a mini-ottoman Empire and have a few other ethnic groups to pit against the Kurds and others in a hope to delay their eventual morph into Greater Kurdistan.
[DAWN] SATURDAY'S deadly blast that killed at least 128 people and injured over 200 in Ankara couldn't have come at a worse time for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Tensions across the nation are high. Last June's general election stripped Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's Justice and Development Party of its majority in parliament, and no party was willing to share power with him, forcing the president to go for another election. While the fanatic hordes of the self-styled Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... occupy large chunks of territory near the Turkish border, the nation's decades-old Kurdish issue has resurfaced with greater intensity. One major upset in the June election was the stunning political success of the Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), which crossed the 10pc vote barrier and entered parliament. More unfortunately for the country, the truce with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) broke down, thus renewing a 30-year-old conflict which has claimed over 40,000 lives. This has aroused intense nationalist feelings across Turkey, though his opponents accuse Mr Erdogan of deliberately escalating the war on the PKK to cash in on anti-PKK sentiments and deny the HDP another electoral triumph. To make matter worse, a large number of Kurds from Turkey have joined Syrian Kurds and managed to occupy some territory on the Turkish border. This adds new dimensions to a complex situation, for it is Syrian and Turkish Kurds who have offered the most determined resistance to the IS. Yet, for Mr Erdogan it is the Kurdish insurgency rather that the IS that is the problem.
Who bombed the Ankara rally is not yet clear. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu suspects four parties, including the IS, but the IS has yet to claim responsibility. The opposition's charge that the government caused the blasts shows Mr Erdogan's growing unpopularity with a wide cross section of the people -- hard-line Turkish nationalists, liberal elements unhappy with his authoritarian methods and the followers of the Gulen movement among them. All this is happening at a time when Moscow's role in Syria has assumed greater proportions, with Russian planes violating Turkish airspace. The bitter polarisation centring on Mr Erdogan's personality and the worsening regional situation call for a calmer Turkey. We can only hope that Mr Erdogan will learn to be more realistic, that the Nov 1 election will give a clearer parliamentary picture and that this will lead to a cohesive coalition government, which is able to give Turkey stability, consolidate the country's economic gains and wage a determined war on terrorism.
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"If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your ally, is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership."
-- Barack Obama, interview with Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes, October 11, 2015
[Spectator] Vladimir Putin is only nine years older than Barack Obama, yet they somehow are of a different generation. How could this be?
For starters, when Obama enrolled in an elite private high school, Putin already was starting KGB training. Putin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). When I visited that city in 1979, Putin -- it turns out -- was monitoring foreigners there. That same year, Obama had just started coasting through Occidental College. In the 1980s, while Obama was a community organizer in Chicago, Putin was in Dresden working with the Stasi, the dreaded East German secret police. Thanks to Ronald Reagan, the Soviet "evil empire" was disintegrating, while a clueless Obama was in law school, then instantly to be a precocious and dubious "constitutional law scholar." This closet-socialist was soon complaining on Chicago radio that the U.S. Constitution did not require income redistribution. At the same time, outed Communist Putin was transitioning from KGB thug to political hack.
And from political hack to master. We'll likely never know all the details...
Putin has said you can take a man out of the KGB, but you can't take the KGB out of a man. He yearns for the glory days when the USSR was the rival superpower to the U.S. He had wet (and probably fulfilled) dreams about gymnast Alina Kabayeva, now he has wet (and yet unfulfilled) dreams are about a resurgent Russia. He pursues classic Soviet hegemony in the Crimea, the Baltic States, and Ukraine, and these pursuits, to Obama, are signs of weakness? In 2012, Obama ridiculed his opponent Mitt Romney for predicting all this, which has given rise to this question: How do you lose weight in Washington? Answer: By having Putin eat your lunch.
Obama obviously made quite an impression on Putin when they met in New York on September 29. The next day a Russian general in Baghdad visited the American embassy, where he unceremoniously told the U.S. military attachĂŠ that the U.S. has one hour to vacate Syrian air space, so the Russians could supposedly bomb ISIS targets. Congressman Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee, an Obama groupie known for his tortured defense of the Iran deal, claims Putin's inner circle did not know Putin's plan in Syria. To the surprise of no one except Obama, his un-prescient State Department, and his Congressional sycophants like Schiff, the Russians also are extensively targeting Syrian rebels contesting Syria's ruthless Bashar al-Assad. Obama did not back these rebels years ago when they might have succeeded.
The Soviet Union had long backed Bashar's father, Hafez al-Assad. In the old days, the Soviets supplied Syria and Egypt with MIG fighters, but Syrian and Egyptian pilots were poorly trained and the aircraft not properly maintained. Putin is eager to show the region that generally the Russians are a reliable ally, once again of Syria, only this time Russians maintain and fly upgraded SU-24M supersonic all-weather attack aircraft, no match for what Israel has.
By which the authors means that the Israelis would wax the Rooshuns, and I think that's right...
Nor are Russian pilots operating out of a Syrian air base at Hmeimim (which Israelis could take out despite Russian surveillance and defensive assets) a match for Israeli pilots defending their country from their home air base. Putin does not want a confrontation with Israel.
Neither does Bibi want to joust with the Rooshuns. I suspect the two of them confirmed that in the discussion Bibi had in Moscow as referenced below...
Just five years ago, we were talking about Obama's Arab Spring (the "Arab Awakening), now remembered as a farce. For example, Obama backed in Egypt an artificial democracy that ushered in the Muslim Brotherhood, fortunately since overthrown by the Egyptian military.
Which still makes Champ pissy...
Obama tried to resist Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a pro-Western moderate Muslim who became Egyptian president, and then Obama tried to undercut him. The Mideast is a region of symbols. For example, both Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power skipped Bibi's U.N. speech, due to a "conference call" with Obama. Given Obama's well-known contempt for Israel, the message, intended or not, of further marginalizing America's ally was unmistakable.
As Champ would borrow the term, "mission accomplished"...
In the Mideast, loyalty is treasured. Violent factions, nationalist and even Muslim, but not Islamist and not innately pro-Russian, want to go with a winner. The U.S. has abdicated leadership, and the Russians want that role.
In the Mideast, the Saudi government is allied with the United States, and remarkably, its intermediaries quietly deal with Israel. The Saudi leaders and Jordan's Abdullah and moderate Arabs are appalled at Obama's policies, notably his tilt toward Iran. True, the Iranian people are arguably more open to the West than others in the region.
Champ didn't make an appeal to the Iranian people in their aborted revolution in 2009. If he had Iran might be an emerging democracy today, and Champ would have all the international credit. That truly would have been a legacy. But he refused to help them, so the ayatollahs gunned them down and that was that. All the ordinary people in the Middle East got the message from Champ's silence.
But Obama has sided with the terrorist government of Iran over its people and telegraphed to them and the region that the Iranian regime is permanent. And now, to further complicate matters, Russia is back as a player in the Mideast.
A week before the Obama-Putin meeting, Bibi Netanyahu -- with ranking Israeli military and intelligence colleagues -- flew to Moscow. Who would have thought an Israeli leader would have a more productive meeting with Russia's leader than with an American president? Bibi explained to Putin their common interest in avoiding conflict. Putin respects Netanyahu who likely adopted a Donald Trump approach -- let Assad forces and ISIS kill each other. In turn, Putin understood that Israel would not tolerate any Russian-enhanced Syrian offensive capability or defensive capability that threatens Israel. Bibi probably noted the Russian-supported Iran deal ended any prospect of Israel-Palestinian peace talks, certainly while Obama is in office, but Putin is indifferent on that issue.
Russia has always viewed the Paleos as a tool, and a dull, simple tool at that...
Bibi likely emphasized that Iran does not feel bound by Obama's "Iran deal," and further that Iran now wants to provide GPS targeting for roughly 100,000-plus Hezbollah rockets based in Lebanon and also Syria. Bibi put Putin on notice (with the kind of red line that Obama can only draw) to control its ally Iran and thus Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, because Israel will not allow guided rocket attacks from the north that could paralyze this small nation.
All of this explains why now is the time for Hamas to create a third Intifada (Palestinian uprising). As in the past, CNN, the BBC, public radio, and the mainstream media are already predictably blaming Israeli settlements and "Palestinian disenchantment with the peace process." The two prior Intifadas (late 1980s, early 2000s) were no more sporadic than Benghazi; they were strategic and planned; as in Benghazi, an event was blamed. Gullible and anti-Israeli media
...but we repeat ourselves...
accepted the contrived "catalysts." Thus, the current controversy over the al-Aksa Mosque is a pretense.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has urged Israeli Arabs to join the Intifada. Imam Sheikh Muhammad Saliah "Abu Rajab" brandished a dagger in his sermon at Gaza's al Abrar Mosque as he praised stabbers for making Israelis too afraid to leave their home and urged more widespread knifings. Although Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls for calm and claims he does not want a Third Intifada, the PA is hardly blameless, because it uses U.N. and U.S. funding (which therefore should be eliminated) for teaching hate and inciting violence like the so-called "lone wolf" attacks, whose mosaic becomes a strategy. And Abbas publicly condones terrorist attacks ("every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure blood").
The October 10 Wall Street Journal featured a large color photograph of violence in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In 1981, I visited Birzeit University, just outside Ramallah. As if on cue, the Palestinian students (of course, out of my view) threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, who then responded with tear gas. I sought cover and relief, but I was not impressed with this show or presumed Israeli oppression. A generation later, the stakes are higher, and Israel has learned that no matter how it responds to sometimes fatal rock throwing and escalating violence, probably Messrs. Obama and Kerry, and certainly the media and the United Nations, will play the "moral equivalence" game, reprise the "cycle of violence" paradigm, and ultimately condemn Israel for "disproportionate" response. And don't forget the Israel bashing "progressive" pro-Obama Hollywood Jews who are secular or, at best, attend reform synagogues where the leftist rabbi publicly supported the Iran deal.
In Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, as well as in smaller cities like Aful, Peta Tikava, Ma'ale Adumin, and Kiryat Arba, or even a Kibbutz like Gan Shmuel, more than 150 terror attacks have occurred, many by Israeli Arabs, creating major injuries and even fatalities -- rocks thrown, vehicle ramming, rolling tires on fire, stabbings, and shootings. Imagine if in the U.S., members of a particular ethnic group began a wave of stabbings on streets in cities and towns throughout America.
Just imagine. There would likely be a catchy hashtag, too...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already has ordered massive police reinforcements in cities and critical border areas as a deterrent.
Hamas wants momentum so that Israel will be under siege. The mainstream media are barely reporting the spreading attacks and their psychological effect on the Israeli populace. Perhaps that's not all that bad. But when an Israeli youth knifed innocent Palestinians, Israel -- as it always does in such a situation -- apprehended and condemned him. He will likely face what Netanyahu terms "the full extent of the law." Yet, the media reported this single incident in Dimona as "stabbings on both sides." After a Palestinian boy stabbed passers-by and then tried to attack police, he was killed. The British newspaper the Independent headlined: "Israeli security forces kill boy, 16, after stabbing in Jerusalem as violence continues." As in the past, Palestinian terrorists are counted as victims.
Putin is not stupid, but his strategy is risky. How can he keep Assad in power without getting in bed with Hezbollah, which backs Assad? Yet, Putin must have assured Bibi that he will try to keep Iran from enhancing guidance for Hezbollah's tens of thousands of Syria-based rockets, customarily embedded in residential areas, and around hospitals and schools. One way or another, Israel must prevent GPS-type targeting capability for these rockets or take them out with major civilian casualties in Syria (and Lebanon). Putin knows any tactic of putting Russians on the ground in Syria as "human shields" will not deter Israel, and right now some Russians could get in harm's way. All this must be sorted out; otherwise a major Israeli war against Hezbollah could lead to Russian casualties. Russia cannot be in Hezbollah-controlled areas or it must accept Russian deaths; in either case, Russia must step aside. That's because Russian military support for Hezbollah would not only destroy Putin's credibility among moderate Arabs but also risk a wider military confrontation with Israel, and could draw in the United States. Perhaps Putin's end game is to assure Assad's hold on power, so that Hezbollah in Syria becomes expendable. That would be win-win-win for Russia, Israel, and the U.S. and occur despite, not because of, Obama, who would seek credit.
Back to reality. Months ago, Michael Oren, Israel's former Ambassador to the U.S., focused on the frightening prospect that Iran, especially emboldened by Obama's "deal" and tens of billions in sanctions relief, would provide targeting capability for Hezbollah's huge rocket inventory, in Syria (and Lebanon). Guided rocket attacks against Israel and indiscriminate stabbings within Israel may seem unrelated. They are not. With Russian involvement in Syria, and the Hezbollah rocket scenario unresolved, Israel cannot be diverted. It must stop the Third Intifada.
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or take them out with major civilian casualties in Syria (and Lebanon)
the choice is Leb's, Hezb's and Syria's
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Seems the third intifada started with all the knife attacks this week. I suspect the Palestinians will not like the eventual response one bit. I also suspect the world media will side with the Palestinians no matter what. And lastly the sun will rise in the East tomorrow.
[DAWN] WHEN the month of Muharram draws near, the state usually swings into action in order to keep the peace during this sensitive period. The measures adopted by the administration include restricting the entry of certain preachers in volatile cities and towns. This year, too, the government appears to be taking no chances, as the state is keeping an eye on the movement of controversial holy mans. As reported on Monday, the entry of 190 Learned Elders of Islam has been banned in Rawalpindi division during Muharram, which starts later this week. The inter-provincial movement of holy mans has also been banned. Ulema from various sects have been included in the list of those to be denied entry into Rawalpindi.
Restricting the entry of controversial Learned Elders of Islam is essential if peace is to be maintained during Muharram. After all, religious passions run high during this period; even the slightest irresponsible comment or provocation from the pulpit can spark widespread trouble, especially in the age of social media where rumours and half-truths can spread like wildfire. Rawalpindi is, of course, particularly sensitive -- the garrison city witnessed communal violence during 2013's Ashura when controversial remarks were reportedly made from a mosque loudspeaker. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... there are other potential flashpoints across Pakistain where the respective administrations must take similar steps to prevent hatemongers from exploiting religious sentiments. Yet while it is true that Muharram is a particularly sensitive time, the state should be taking action against those involved in spreading hate speech around the year. For example, if the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government can zero in on these 190 individuals during Muharram, it -- along with the other provincial administrations -- should be keeping a watchful eye on such elements during the rest of the year as well. Hundreds have reportedly been rounded up on hate speech charges under the National Action Plan, but there is clearly room for greater vigilance on this count. Indeed, there should be zero tolerance for divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... elements spreading sectarian and communal poison 365 days a year.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The West - especially the United States - no longer has a strategy for the Middle East. It has tried detente with Iran over the nuclear issue, and it has to a large extent succeeded. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... there is no evidence yet that this will dent Iran's opposition to U.S. interests in the region, or that it will stop funding terrorist organizations that carry out attacks against U.S. interests and allies.
U.S. relations with the Saudis have chilled, and relations with Israel are at an all-time low - for perfectly good reasons, since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has killed off the grinding of the peace processor with the Paleostinians.
Considering the condition of the peace process, I'd consider it a mercy-killing.
The United States is in unilateral retreat across the Middle East, and the rest of the West has duly followed. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... Netanyahu raises the spectre of war with Iran. All previous rules of the game in the Middle East have been discarded, Russia and Iran have been left in the ascendency, and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) still ravages large swathes of the fertile crescent.
It is impossible to know what shape things will take when, indeed if, the dust settles. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... what is painfully clear is that the West cannot hope to just wash its hands of any responsibility over what happens in the region. The millions of Syrians and others who will continue to flee to Europe will make sure of that.
Perhaps one day the West will decide it is not impotent and can yet make a positive contribution to peace in the Middle East. For now, however, there is no evidence that it has any idea how to go about that.
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Again, US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE EX-SOLE-SUPERPOWER-SOON-TO-BE-ONE-OF-MANY-OWG-CO-SUPERPOWER USoAMERIKA IS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY HELPING ITS ENEMIES, PROTAGONISTS, + WANNABES, NATIONS + NGOS, ETAL. BECOME MILPOL OR GEOPOL STRONGER RELATIVE TO ITSELF.
POTUS Obama + OWG Globalists are NOT stopping RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? from expanding their Sphere(s) of Influence to the detriment of US Regional Allies - THEY WANT RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? tO EXPAND THEIR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE TO THE DETRIMENT OF US REGIONAL ALLIES.
THE MORE ANARCHIES-N-CHAOSES, THE BETTER FOR OWG-NWO + US-GLOBAL/WORLD MARXIST-COMMIE-SOCIALIST-GLOBALIST ORDER.
* Lest we fergit, 1990 CLINTONISM > E.G. GOP-RIGHT = LIMITED OR "NEW" DEMOLEFT, FASCISM = LIMITED COMMUNISM, ... ...@ETC = POST-COLD WAR, POST-9-11, YEAR 2015-N-COUNTING GOP-DEM "UNITARIANISM/UNITARIAN SOCIALISM-GOVTISM" IN WASHINGTON.
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I think Vlad would love to go into Iraq just to taunt the One.
of course, he would kick the crap out of ISIS and maybe having some adult leadership running the show against ISIS is not a bad idea.
I know it hurts our self esteem but right now after all of the gutting and sissifying of our military, the Russians are the only ones with the stomach and the tools to do the right thing...ruthlessly.
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In my opinion Mr. G. The biggest problem for Russia is Iran. Containment is the ultimate goal. I look for future deals with India,Saudi,Egypt as well as Israel. The EU of Asia and Arab world. My belief Latin America would jump at the chance to join. There however China sees their pot of gold. The young people of Iran want to move ahead into the future, music the Arts and so on. The yoke of leadership has been borne too long. Like those who are black here. The Race or Religion is used whenever it is to their advantage.
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The biggest problem for Russia is China. The second biggest USA under tranzi management. Iran, given that Russians are not into nation building anymore, is not a problem---except, maybe, in logistics.
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Ref #5: Exactly! Flood Europe with cheap oil and natural gas, coal, watch Vlad's reaction. Of course the Champ would never undertake such a strategy. It might put the United States into a position of power and influence once again.
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Yes, Mr G I can see your belief in this. I really don't disagree but I don't see China being all that determined butting heads with Russia. Greed seems to be their true quest in my opinion. When they have the chance the Chinese leave their country and look for areas with fewer Chinese because they are so competitive. Russia is willing to lead and mix it up. China seems to want to work deals to get what they want. China has few or no friends on its borders.
[WaPo] - AMERICANS AND Europeans are seeing the results of four years of U.S. disengagement in the Middle East. A country destroyed, with half its people displaced from their homes. Hundreds of thousands of refugees besieging an unready Europe. And now, Russian warplanes bombing U.S.-allied forces as American officials alternate between clucking reprovingly and insisting bravely that Russian President VladiÂmir Putin will be sorry in the end. That is a tempting dream, but it represents the same wishful thinking that got us here in the first place.
How did we get here? It's worth recalling, briefly, a bit of history. When Secretary of State John F. "You got a friend"
Kerry took office at the beginning of President Obama's second term, he argued that Syria could be saved only with a political solution: The United States did not want to repeat its Iraq mistake Wasn't a mistake till the bammer pulled out and fled
and chase President Bashar al-Assad and his regime out of office with nothing to take their place. But, he said, the regime would not negotiate seriously until its opposition was strengthened, and so Mr. Kerry and others in the administration favored U.S. assistance, including training for the rebels, protection of safe zones where they could begin to govern without fear of Mr. Assad's barrel bombs and chlorine gas, some arms and other military aid. Spandex biking shorts, yes, size 5 please.
Mr. Obama would never agree; or rather, sometimes he agreed, and failed to follow through, and sometimes he just said no. Mr. Kerry was left with no option but diplomacy, in particular begging Russia and Iran to bail him out. More at the link. What is up with WaPo trying to tell the truth?
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By appointing yourself a World Policeman without going through a police academy first?
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Assad saw both Mubarak and Quadaffi 'agree to cooperate' just be steamrolled out of power. He had no choice but the resist and fight. I did not suspect him to last this long but he may actually survive the mess.
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Sunni and Shia don't get along unless one has a boot on their throat.
When the US took out Iraq we did our best to avoid dividing the nation. Pulling out of Iraq (and thus leaving the minority Sunni dependent on Shia good graces) while simultaneously arming the Sunni's in Syria started the mess.
So you have a Sunni state forming out of the corpse of two multi-ethnic states. Sunni wealth and manpower pour in to support their co-sunni and we end up with a divided Iraq anyway (and the division being uncontrollable might end up with borders who knows where before its done).
It's all fairly predictable, or should have been to intelligence services.
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Assad saw both Mubarak and Quadaffi 'agree to cooperate' just be steamrolled out of power. He had no choice but the resist and fight. I did not suspect him to last this long but he may actually survive the mess.
Of course, they 'agreed to cooperate' with the nationalist Americans and (at least in Qaddafi's case) got steamrolled by the Soviet-Americans for betraying the Khan Network and making the Stuxnet operation possible.
[PJmedia] Carson, who wrote a new book with his wife, Candy, titled, A More Perfect Union: What We the People can Do to Reclaim our Constitutional Liberties, said the legislative branch "acts more like a peanut gallery" instead of acting on issues such as religious freedom.
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.~ General Robert E. Lee
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At the time of the war with Mexico, Lee was a mere Captain or Major while "my army" are a general's words so he was uttering these words during the Civil War and reffering to the Confederate Congress not the US one.
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Yes of foking course, Lee never led a starving Union Army. It's all somewhere in Korda's Clouds of Glory. The peanut connection was intended to highlight Lee's contempt for politicians, which I and many here share.
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Since we can't elect an independent as President, the next-best thing may be to elect an independent who just became a Republican in order to run for President. Puts a different spin on the term RINO.
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I'm starting to warm to Carson. He's the one candidate who would have a free pass to walk back the 0bama years without the idiots caterwauling about racism.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Breitbart] Donald Trump, the Republican Party presidential front-runner, was talking about Mrs. Merkel's invitation to migrants on the American political interview show, 'Face The Nation'.
[DAWN] SATURDAY'S deadly blast that killed at least 128 people and injured over 200 in Ankara couldn't have come at a worse time for 
How did we get here? It's worth recalling, briefly, a bit of history. When Secretary of State John F. 
