Russia hits back at Turkey by changing Syria 'game'

Al Jazeera ^ | November 29th, 2015 | Zeina Khodr

[RC one]

Osama bin Laden.

[ExSoldier]

We're hurting because of the ban on exports. We could send our economy back into orbit and rehire all of those laid off workers (which I believe are really being laid off because BIG OIL -- the conglomerates and CEO's etc) are too freaking greedy. Those folks have never seen themselves as American. They consider themselves citizens of the world.

I remember the 1960's and early 1970's when the price of gas was just about .30 a gallon and oil was booming! We need 100% energy independence from OPEC and so do our allies. If we could put a ring of fire around the middle east, we'd have the ultimate hammer to hold over them.

We could tell them: Nobody needs your oil anymore. Keep up this WAHABI Terror crappola and see what happens. Maybe we turn your fields into oil under glass, with a slight glow...

[af_vet_1981]

Our members of Congress have been aware of this Turkish-ISIS connection for some time. Why have the in effect supported it?

Foreign policy is the domain of the President. Did you vote for McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012 ?

[ExSoldier]

Well, you don't have the background on Russia that I do. My late father (passed in 1980) was born in 1907 and his family was directly related to the Czar and listed in the third of book (out of four) of the Czar's family. My dad actually witnessed the Russian Revolution. First hand experience. His father and grandfathers were both primary resources and highly placed. One in the Russian (Czarist) military and the other in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Then of course, my active duty military experience as an infantry officer was training to fight the communists during a possible direct confrontation in Western Europe (circa 1980-'84). Then I was '84-'94 in the reserves. I had a lot of training on those guys: Economics, cultural (filtered thru what my dad had taught me), tactical and strategic.

Putin is an old time hard line communist and they will never play well with the USA. The fact that we are cheering him with ISIS is a very sad reflection on the state of our own nation and it's leadership. If Cruz, Trump, Fiorina or Rubio become POTUS or any combo thereof, it will be a different picture all around.

[ExSoldier]

But Who pays the subsidies required to cause privetly owned property to be sold at below market rates?

WTF are you talking about?? NOBODY who has oil on their land should be forced to give it up. EVER. They should lease the land and oil reserves to a non OPEC company like SUNOCO and let them drill baby drill! Then the landowner gets a percentage of the profits. That's the American way. Just ask Bill Gates and Jed Clampett!

[ExSoldier]

That sounds like the kind of thinking that a businessman would come up with.

Not quite. Normally, I teach American Government and Economics. This year I'm taking a break with World History. Next year I anticipate being back on the front lines. I'm NOT a "progressive" educator. Nor am I alone, even though I teach in the 4th largest school district in the nation. I am very pro-business. I am a capitalist. I was raised in a time when instead of taking American Government, the class I was taught as a student in high school was called: Americanism versus Communism. I had my father as the perfect example because he had directly experienced Russian Marxism.

[FreedomNotSafety]

I asked a question. I did not make a statement. Go back and give the thread one minute of reading and thought. Read the post that I was responding to.

I was asking the question to the poster who said that the oil should be sold at a discount to help undermine the Islamic countries and Russia. I didn’t say it, they did. I was asking them who is supposed to pay for that discount.

What I asked was a rhetorical question.

[Glad2bnuts]

I still see no reason we cannot be the best of allies and friends with Russia. The vast majority of problems have to do with our corporations, and their corporations. The banksters want One world. They cannot have it until all opposition is destroyed. Russia is that opposition, more than America. We are already “all in” counting the elites. Russia, not so much.

[KC_for_Freedom]

You misunderstood me, I was implying (not clearly it would seem) that your approach would be similar to what Trump would do. We need to bring the fight to them in all its forms, including economic.

I did not mean to imply that you were a businessman yourself. Thank you for your service, both as a soldier and as a teacher.

[Democratic-Republican]

That is a pretty great cartoon. Nice find!

They should update it with the Turk shooting himself in the foot, and Putin aiming his guns up at him instead.