Barack Hussein Osama's no home boi of mine"Obama derangement syndrome".
Heya SN. :2wave: Actually, I was thinking the Russians might have thrown Up a blockade kinda extend the Cuban favor Right back us. Wouldn't even have to fire a shot.
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Barack Hussein Osama's no home boi of mine
Do you honestly think if the excrement hit the fan in the middle east the Barry n Kerry show be up to the task? Dude Seriously!
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The situation wouldn't look like is does today if a real Conservative ahd been in office these last five years, you don't have to believe that but it a fact. So as the de facto leader of the EU what would your countries' position be when the shooting started? Prolly kick back like the ChiComs and laugh all the to the Deutsche Bundesbank?In the end, they'll do the same
If "the excrement hit the fan", neither Obama nor an American President would make much difference, but they'd both do more or less the same by listening to their advisors. Only difference is the rhetoric ... Republicans want to please the gorilla-level electors at home who are easily impressed by grandstanding and stuffed-out trousers and who think that anything short of bombing towelheads in masses is "appeasement", while Democrats want to rhetorically impress the latte-sipping enlightened intellectuals, peaceniks and college-kids by evoking the impression that they at least try to talk with the bad guys first. In the end, they'll do the same.
Or so is my disillusioned impression after 5 years of Obama.
I suppose being a non-player on the world's stage for so long now has bummed them out but what's a mother Russia to do?The Russians are extremely mad and there's sort of pre-war frenzy in Moscow
Yeah, well its split on both sides. Neo Cons want to go in. So do neo Libs. Palin and Tea partists say stay out. But now Kucinich has spoken out too.
Kucinich: Syria strike would turn US into 'al Qaeda's air force'
Airstrikes on Syria would turn the U.S. military into “al Qaeda's air force,” former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) told The Hill.
The outspoken anti-war activist said any such action would plunge the United States into another war in the Middle East and embolden Islamist militants fighting Bashar Assad's regime.
“So what, we're about to become Al Qaeda's air force now?” Kucinich said. “This is a very, very serious matter that has broad implications internationally. And to try to minimize it by saying we're just going to have a 'targeted strike' — that's an act of war. It's not anything to be trifled with.”
The comments echo warnings from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who voted against legislation to arm the Syrian rebels earlier this year by saying such a move would boost al Qaeda.
“This is being used as a pretext,” he said. “The verdict is in before the facts have been gathered. What does that tell you?”
Read more: Kucinich: Syria strike would turn US into 'al Qaeda's air force' - The Hill's Global Affairs
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Achem..August 28, 2013
Putin’s Silence on Syria Signals Resignation on Attack
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
MOSCOW — Russia has made its opposition to military intervention in Syria vehemently clear. The foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warns daily about the risk of an escalating conflagration. A deputy prime minister said the West dealt with the Islamic world like “a monkey with a grenade.” A few commentators on the fringe have warned of World War III.
The one voice that has remained silent, though, is the one that matters most.
President Vladimir V. Putin has conspicuously avoided public comment on reports of a chemical weapons attack on civilians outside of Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Aug. 21, which killed hundreds of people. Instead he has carried on, like many ordinary Russians, as if the civil war in Syria had not reached an ominous new phase. In the days after the attack, Mr. Putin attended a ceremony for the restoration of a fountain made famous in World War II, visited a breakaway province of neighboring Georgia and toured a mine and dam in Siberia.
There is no doubt about Mr. Putin’s opposition to retaliatory strikes. Nor about his support of the government of President Bashar al-Assad in a conflict Mr. Assad has repeatedly described as a war against Islamic extremism.
Mr. Putin’s public reticence, though, reflects a calculation that Russia can do little to stop a military intervention if the United States and other countries move ahead without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council – and that he has little to lose at home, at least, if they do.
Mr. Lavrov, in expansive remarks to reporters this week, made it clear that Russia’s reaction to international intervention in Syria would be limited to a war of words – “We, of course, are not planning to go to war with anybody,” he said. That stance could ultimately benefit Mr. Putin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/world/middleeast/putin-on-syria.html?pagewanted=print
The Canucks will take it.
Well, this argument would make sense if the Syrian opposition indeed mainly consists of islamists now.
I don't know what to believe. I've heard different claims in these regards, some saying that most of the fighters are indeed islamists, others pointing out that while there is indeed significant "war tourism" by islamists, the vast majority of the opposition are still just "common people".
So... *shrug*
Does anyone doubt that this whole state of affairs is a ruse to sanction the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program either by the Israelis or the Americans? Iran is playing directly into the hands of those who oppose it by claiming they will attack Israel if any action is taken against Syria - it would not surprise me in the least if a preemptive strike against Iran and its nuclear facilities by both Israel and America took place even before any serious action in Syria.
Does anyone doubt that this whole state of affairs is a ruse to sanction the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program either by the Israelis or the Americans? Iran is playing directly into the hands of those who oppose it by claiming they will attack Israel if any action is taken against Syria - it would not surprise me in the least if a preemptive strike against Iran and its nuclear facilities by both Israel and America took place even before any serious action in Syria.
Iran has significantly expanded its uranium enrichment capacity at one nuclear plant, installing around 1,000 advanced centrifuges that are set to undergo testing, a new U.N. watchdog report says.
The International Atomic Energy Agency's quarterly report also says Iran has started making fuel assemblies for a nuclear reactor that Western powers fear could yield bomb material, according to Reuters.
The confidential report was released Wednesday to the agency's 35 board member nations and the U.N. Security Council. It said Iran had installed about 300 more of its advanced centrifuges since the last report in May, for a total of 1,008, and had put all of them under vacuum.
Such a move is normally one of the last steps before the machines start spinning uranium gas into the material that can be used either as reactor fuel or as the core of nuclear warheads, depending on its enrichment level.
Read more: Iran significantly expands uranium enrichment capacity at nuclear plant, UN watchdog says | Fox News
Meanwhile . . .
On tv, some expert said that a Western attack on Syria would probably make a peaceful solution of the Iran nuclear business much more difficult, if not impossible. Their new moderate president had been sending signals in the past weeks that he'd seek cooperation with the West, but in case of such an attack on Syria, it would be impossible for him to get anything through against the people's opposition and the mullahs. He'd immediately branded as "appeaser" or pro-American by them.
The situation wouldn't look like is does today if a real Conservative ahd been in office these last five years, you don't have to believe that but it a fact. So as the de facto leader of the EU what would your countries' position be when the shooting started? Prolly kick back like the ChiComs and laugh all the to the Deutsche Bundesbank?
I'd even go this far...The situation wouldn't look like it does today if a real American PATRIOT had been in office these last 5 years....
anyone in particular?
anyone in particular?