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2013-09-08 Home Front: WoT

Obama's Syria War Is Really About Iran and Israel

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 and its also due to global warming

and also due to insufficient margin tax rates for high incomes

and also because of insufficient pay for teachers

and because of low minimum wages

Posted by lord garth 2013-09-08 01:01|| 2013-09-08 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 "Honestly, I don't know what to say."

Obviously, neither does he.

Posted by newc 2013-09-08 01:04|| 2013-09-08 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Shame on you for posting this, TW.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-08 01:29|| 2013-09-08 01:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Shame on you for posting this, TW.

You need to be a little more specific than that, g(r)omgoru.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-08 08:38|| 2013-09-08 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 The Nation also employs empty-headed commie Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Posted by Frank G 2013-09-08 09:24|| 2013-09-08 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Considering Obama ignored the Arab spring uprising in Iran and has done little to deter Iran or to protect Israel. I think this is reach for another excuse for support action in Syria.

Posted by airandee 2013-09-08 10:24|| 2013-09-08 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 You need to be a little more specific than that, g(r)omgoru.

There may be a second-order grain of truth in the article, but on the first order he thinks it's crap.

Posted by gorb 2013-09-08 12:06|| 2013-09-08 12:06|| Front Page Top

#8 You need to be a little more specific than that, g(r)omgoru.

Cause the article is standard "anti-zionist" barking.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-08 12:14|| 2013-09-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 There's someone (Vladimir Visotzky, Translation by Boris Gendelev) who say it better than I

Song of an Antisemite
Russian title: Antisemity
Just being a hoodlum appears so trite
I ought to convert to an anti-Semite
This cause might not yet have the law on its side
But millions of zealots support it worldwide

One would get a thrashing if I so decide
But I need to know who is a Semite
What if they are held in the highest regard
What if for the trouble I get myself barred

But my drunkard pal with a wider worldview
Said that a Semite is just a plain Jew
Well, I am in luck, as it would appear
I am reassured there is nothing to fear

I worked up resolve, cause Albert Einstein
Was once a respected icon of mine
The people, forgive me, but I have to ask
Should Abraham Lincoln be also unmasked?

Among them, are many who suffered from Stalin
And highly respected by me Charlie Chaplin
My dear friend Rubin and victims of Nazism
And even the founding father of Marxism

But my drunkard buddy said after a job
The blood of the infants they drink, every drop
And I over drinks in a bar overheard
That they long ago crucified our Lord

Without more blood they simply can't do
They tortured an elephant right in a zoo
Against our people committed high treason
And stole all the crops of the previous season

Along major highways they grabbed all the lots
Built luxury dachas and live there like gods
I'll maim and I'll burn, just to make them pay dues
To save our country, I club dirty Kikes!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-08 12:19|| 2013-09-08 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 one of the problems with the opinion section is that it matters greatly whose opinion it is and for one thing you can't always tell from the title and second some people can't identify the who simply by the source

for example in this opinion it is The Nation; a hard lefty rag

so the title could have been

Hard Lefty Mag says Syrian war about Iran and Israel

of course this has the difficulty of making the titles long

Posted by lord garth 2013-09-08 14:32|| 2013-09-08 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 I took it that it was posted in the "know your enemy" sense, #8 grom.

But then I know the reputation of the rag that published this.

Posted by Barbara 2013-09-08 15:43|| 2013-09-08 15:43|| Front Page Top

#12 it is The Nation; a hard lefty rag

I'm afraid I had no idea. If someone would be so kind as to work up a list of such things, that would be terribly helpful.

On the other hand, after reading Frank G's link on the editor's connections, I have to assume the ideas there get a hearing at the highest levels, and therefore do matter, however utterly stupid they might be.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-08 16:28|| 2013-09-08 16:28|| Front Page Top

#13 hard lefty rag doesn't begin to describe them. Red -diaper baby-founded, Stalinist in their outlook, and Anti-American.

Posted by Frank G 2013-09-08 17:04|| 2013-09-08 17:04|| Front Page Top

#14 "Stalinist in their outlook, and Anti-American."

And those are their good points....

Posted by Barbara 2013-09-08 18:37|| 2013-09-08 18:37|| Front Page Top

#15 tw

there is a pretty good list at the political magazine website on wikipedia

however they do use the magazine's own self identification thus Mother Jones and The Nation are called liberal instead of 'hard left' as I would call it or 'Stalinist' as others would call it

Posted by lord garth 2013-09-08 21:04|| 2013-09-08 21:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Red-diaper baby-founded, Stalinist in their outlook, and Anti-American.

Is he talking about our President?

Posted by SteveS 2013-09-08 23:02|| 2013-09-08 23:02|| Front Page Top

#17 #12 it is The Nation; a hard lefty rag

I'm afraid I had no idea. If someone would be so kind as to work up a list of such things, that would be terribly helpful.

Well, there's Horowitz's thingy, often my second or third stop when I'm seeking slapdash enlightenment on such things.

Posted by Woolsack Deutscher1907 2013-09-08 23:54|| 2013-09-08 23:54|| Front Page Top

#18 See also RELATED BHARAT RAKSHAK > [OpEd News] STRIKING RUSSIA THROUGH SYRIA.

Both Artics make me kinda wonder about the Bammer's ulterior agendas + geopol fociis vee China-vs-Japan, PHIL, India, etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-09-08 23:59|| 2013-09-08 23:59|| Front Page Top

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