That the US UN ambassador felt justified in to seizing any moral high ground on the ‘shielding of craven tyrants’ when the US remains a major ally of Saudi Arabia, and up until recently was key in helping to maintain Mubarak in power in Egypt, is stark evidence of the hubris that continues to abound [...]
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If substantial U.S. intervention in Syria has already taken place, the unintended consequences could be catastrophic, especially for the Syrian people. If the U.S. decides to intervene in the near future, the costs would be unspeakably high and would almost certainly turn into an effort to install another controllable despot in Damascus that conforms more [...] Residents of Latakia were told to go to the stadium by security because the town was going to be flattened. Whn they arrived, their cell phones and ID were taken. Bodies with no ID are harder to identify, no doubt. A Palestinian refugee camp nearby has been bombed too. I didn’t think Bashar Assad could [...] Surely a few more wars will get us out of the debt crisis. We had a wide-ranging discussion last night, and with greatly enhanced audio as I hosted it via Skype rather than phone. Topics included: Assad is attempting to do to Hama precisely what his father did a few decades ago; demolish it [...] Topics: Who are the global warming deniers? Greece financial crisis. Irish are 10 billion euros in the red due to fall in tax revenue, now want to be sharia-compliant financial center of Europe (you read that right.) Syria barbarity. Western-backed barbarity in Libya, Ivory Coast. Murder of Syed Shahzad, Asia Times journo, in Pakistan. [...] Yet the US only intervened in Libya. Why? Some speculations as to real reasons for the invasion of Libya (where western troops are now on the ground.) Libya wanted to go off the dollar for oil sales. Desertec wants the land for their massive solar project in Africa for power to EU and Qadaffi was [...] In both cases, protesters are being slaughtered. Yet only in Libya did the US intervene. This happened after the protesters picked up guns. Within a week they called for a No Fly Zone which immediately was instituted. It’s all quite curious, almost like it was planned in advance. Contrast Libya with Syria, where Assad [...] So, will the US go charging into Syria too to save the protesters? I mean, wasn’t that the stated reason to start bombing Libya, to prevent slaughter? Well, there’s a slaughter happening in Syria now yet the US is saying little and doing even less. We sure are mighty selective about which thugs we oppose [...] Juan Cole It seems to me more likely that the attack was aimed at making sure that what the administration calls “al-Qaeda in Iraq” did not have the means to mount a spectacular bombing or assassination campaign that would hurt McCain and help Obama. Scott McClellan has already told us that the Bushies are in [...] |  | ||||
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