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Petrous
Caracas
Interests: Mid east politics. Health Care.
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OH, you mean the PERSIAN GULF !
Yes, everyone is busy chipping away at something; Maddow's stick is business. Then there are those who would like to get rid of the PERSIAN in the PERSIAN GULF name too and take every opportunity to try ...... and fail....
Maddow, Isikoff and Corn explain the Iraq War
"MADDOW: At the top of the list for Bremer is oil. BREMER: I had been told we had to get the oil going because it was an oil-dominated economy. This was fairly straightforward. Unless you can get the oil going, you can`t get the economy going. MADDOW: What Bremer and his team find w...
Beautifully put.
Often times it feels as if different capitals in the ME & NE take turn dictating policy to us. Making use of our manpower & economic power to achieve ends that are desirable for them but often times not so much for us ; or even the great majority of the local population.
BHO will grovel in Riyadh
"Burns also suggested that Obama would stress to the Saudis on his second visit to the kingdom as president — and the first in five years — that the United States understands their concerns about a “range of dangerous Iranian behavior that threatens our interests and those of our friends in t...
You have hit on the crux of the matter. " All Iran all the time ".
It has been that way since the Iranian revolution of 78/79 & multiple scare Riyadh got circa 1979 from its Shia minority. For which they blamed the Iranian Islamic Govt. The chess game in the region is driven mainly by this animosity towards Iran and the fear that should (or when) the sanctions are lifted their importance as an indispensable ally will be greatly weakened. Hopefully the US will find its way clear to pursue its own national security & economic imperatives and not those of others (often at the expense of its own).
We need to abandon "regime change" in Syria
On "Chuck" Todd's morning newsie today he interviewed Zbig and Andrea Mitchell about US policy in Syria. Todd and Mitchell are widely seen as virtual mouthpieces of AIPAC and Bibi's government. They seemed to want to use this segment as a springboard for yet more logrolling for aggressive ...
Col. Lang
Kudos to your writing style (as well as the substance of course). The following statement, despite its brevity, coveys what many feel should be our policy towards the Syrian tangle sponsored mainly from Riyadh.
" ... The jihadis came to Syria to die for their faith. They should be assisted in that ambition.... "
So true .
Thank you for stating it so succinctly.
We need to abandon "regime change" in Syria
On "Chuck" Todd's morning newsie today he interviewed Zbig and Andrea Mitchell about US policy in Syria. Todd and Mitchell are widely seen as virtual mouthpieces of AIPAC and Bibi's government. They seemed to want to use this segment as a springboard for yet more logrolling for aggressive ...
A text book example of tail wagging dog(s), specially for the past 4 decades or so ....
Israeli rejects peace with Iran
"Netanyahu said Friday that he "utterly rejects" the emerging nuclear deal between western powers and Iran, calling it a "bad deal" and promised that Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself. "I understand the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva as well they s...
It is all pretty clear. You best described the current "You Tube" based foreign policy by posting that link to the "French" boy friend a couple of hours ago. What forces, or interests, move the current and previous administration to make such rash and EXPENSIVE decisions based on laughable intel? One wonders.
Rebels admit their role in gas disaster
“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,” writes Gavlak. (...
Very unfortunately there are many more than "3 stooges" reporting this point of view.
Russia says that Syrian "attack" reports preceded the event
(graphic used by Powell at the UN to "prove" the existence of non-existent Iraqi BW weapons) "Materials implicating the forces of Syrian president Bashar Assad in chemical weapons use near Damascus were prepared prior to the alleged incident on August 21, the Russian foreign ministry said. Mo...
Petrous added a favorite at Sic Semper Tyrannis
Aug 18, 2013
You are 100% correct. Jamal Abdul-Nasser had done the same to the MB. So, surprise surprise , history does repeat itself (specially if you do not behave; and they did not act as democrats - surprise- when they had the power).
The MB leaders have blinked.
"Backers of ousted president Mohammed Morsi canceled at least one of the protest marches planned for Sunday, citing security concerns. The Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition, furious over the ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi on July 3, called off a rally at Roxy Square in Cairo "afte...
As always, this is another excellent post about the ME and the one sided optics used by some of our leading papers to look at the events there. Do the guys advocating the sacrifice of our sons and daughters in foreign wars ever pause and think for a moment about what they preach. Or because most of them have no stake in the volunteer army nary a thought is given to the lives at risk?
Why in the world would it matter to the stability of Saudi Arabia or Turkey if Bashar Assad stays? Is antagonizing Iran worth the spillage of our, or anybody else's blood? Saudi Arabian Procrustean gerontocrats would be better off thinking about their own internal weaknesses, and how their own demise might blossom by sowing the seeds of sectarian hatred all over the region. Turkey also seems to forget that the meddling in Syria could have consequences not only for its Kurdish population (the most oppressed of the region) but for the more than half a million Alawiis living in Turkey. Most all of whom are strong supporters of the Alawite president of Syria.
More Jingoism at the Washington Post
"If the fighting continues to spread, important U.S. allies, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, could be destabilized; both are indirectly backing Sunni fighters. The fragile political order in Iraq, bought with thousands of American lives, could collapse. Al-Qaeda could acquire new recruits...
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