tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2690216005719824315..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: America Is Back in the GameStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40492487742899149242017-04-10T17:05:46.384-07:002017-04-10T17:05:46.384-07:00A secure path to accurate knowledge, guarded by th...A secure path to accurate knowledge, guarded by the one and only... Ares Olympus.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-16508133516636834532017-04-09T14:59:33.431-07:002017-04-09T14:59:33.431-07:00Dennis, I guess the way to escape being owned is t...Dennis, I guess the way to escape being owned is to deny any source you don't like. But that doesn't seem like a secure path to accurate knowledge.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41752509599955258432017-04-09T06:27:30.242-07:002017-04-09T06:27:30.242-07:00Ares,
If you cannot figure out what I am saying N...Ares,<br /><br />If you cannot figure out what I am saying NO to then you really need to go back and re-read your comments and the assumptions and conclusions you make a leap to justify ideas that only exists in your mind and the fact that Trump resides there. Even your response literally oozes with condescension and TDS. Huffington Post, Vox, et al are not unbiased sources. It saddens me how much you are owned.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-78875473512798215812017-04-08T16:25:35.937-07:002017-04-08T16:25:35.937-07:00Dennis, What are you saying no to? That Clinton wo...Dennis, What are you saying no to? That Clinton wouldn't have authorized military action, same as Trump? Or is the difference that Trump is against refugees coming here, because many or most refugees would prefer their own country, if it didn't have Assad in power?<br /><br />And to be fair to Obama, his red line did lead to a diplomatic solution, where Russia as Syria's ally, intervened and got Assad to agree to destroy all his chemical weapons. So such agreements are clearly not perfect, but it got rid of more chemical weapons than bombing possibly can.<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/10/syria-chemical-weapons-convention_n_3901417.html<br /><br />Perhaps this can become a new "bad-cop, good-cop" routine where Russia can say "Assad, that Trump guy is crazy, changing on a dime just because of some dead children photos. You'd better knock off this bad behavior or we're not going to be able to protect you any longer."<br /><br />Anyway, in this regard, I don't have a problem with symbolic demonstrative actions, even if Russia did warn Syria about the attack.<br /><br />The whole problem is what comes next and I don't see the U.S. in the driver seat on anything here. There's bad people on all sides of the fight, and it's the sort of conflict you almost don't want anyone to win, except for the fact you have millions of refugees as a consequence.<br /><br />In the end maybe Russia is right, having a brutal leader like Assad in power is better than terminal civil war, so we have to let him brutalize his own people until all resistance disappears, and then make him promise to be slightly less brutal. And then all the refugees can go home and live ordinary lives, knowing if they do or say the wrong thing, they or their family might disappear, but at least the hot civil war will be gone.<br /><br />I don't suppose that's the sort of ending the refugees want, but it might be all we have, unless Russia gets impatient with their little buddy.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-783638348809545472017-04-08T12:35:52.925-07:002017-04-08T12:35:52.925-07:00Ares,
No. https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/04/0...Ares,<br /><br />No. https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/04/08/cnn-narrative-fail-syrian-refugee-slams-clinton-obama-praises-trump/<br /><br />One of the questions that has bothered me is, "Why do we believe that the best way to deal with people like Assad is to create a lot of refugees so they can be displaced from their own country where they would rather reside?" Always seemed to me as a way for people to feel good about themselves at the expense of the people they make into refugees and to ignore the problems that are behind most of the ills we run away from.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-83237436024013337262017-04-08T11:53:30.185-07:002017-04-08T11:53:30.185-07:00So basically Trump agrees with what Clinton probab...So basically Trump agrees with what Clinton probably would have done and Obama would not have done.<br /><br />Congratuations! America is back. Can we add a "Mission accomplished" banner now?<br /><br />I wonder if Clinton would have warned Putin before the attack? I guess if the point is to have a symbolic attack that makes people think you're doing something, while you actually want to have no real change, this is how you act.<br /><br />Does anyone else see a major U.S. Military battle defeat, of the Pearl Harbor type, in our imminent future? You have to think a country with our hubris and arrogance is just asking for something.<br /><br />OTOH, perhaps it really will be of the Pearl Harbor type, i.e. an event we could have prevented, but chose to allow happen, because it would spur the American People to unite behind a new great military campaign of some sort.<br /><br />Maybe Martin Armstrong is right - The elite loves a good war to destract the people from their own corruption, and Trump has won the golden ticket, and he gets to be their puppet too. Hillary would have done fine, but now we know all it takes is a few random pictures of dead children is enough for Trump to do their bidding just as well as she would have.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87297059490935001782017-04-08T11:38:57.177-07:002017-04-08T11:38:57.177-07:00Spot on. The Syria move also leads our enemies to...Spot on. The Syria move also leads our enemies to check their plans, actions and provocations. It will check some encroachments, and slow others. Assad is not happy. Putin is not happy. Iran is not happy. The strike must've made for interesting conversation during Trump and Xi's cocktail hour. Net result for USA: No large-scale ground intervention, plenty of collateral damage to Assad's military assets, and it puts the world on notice. The best part: Trump gave the Russians 30 minutes notice.<br /><br />As an aside, Iran is still coming up in my conversations with friends around Middle East foreign policy. Not one of us understands the rationale for Obama's cozy ties with the lunatic theocrats. It still makes no sense. What did we get for all that "diplomacy?" The Obamatrons fought hard for their approach on Iran. Weird.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61299064105071014422017-04-08T08:10:23.921-07:002017-04-08T08:10:23.921-07:00I cannot recall any instance where Obama let Congr...I cannot recall any instance where Obama let Congress interfere with what he wanted to do. Can you, Ares?Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65211404254811434292017-04-08T06:49:43.598-07:002017-04-08T06:49:43.598-07:00Message: "There is a cost for using WMD again...Message: "There is a cost for using WMD against civilians"<br /><br />Iran, Norks, China, and Russia are listening.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.com