Oh, I dunno. Assad is going to have to spend every winter in Moscow for the rest of his life. And I hear that’s even worse than being stuck in Cleveland.
At least Assad won’t suffer the fate of Qaddafi.
Nah, the Heart of Rock and Roll is in Cleveland.
I’m sure Assad has the money to live in the much warmer climate of Sochi.
I don't know what it is, if it's because he's a Democrat President, or if Biden is just so congenial, or there is more control over the media today?
But at every point, the US news media is essentially carrying him, may that be Afghanistan where they downplayed the blunder, Ukraine where it's all success and victory, Israel, Syria...
Unlike Bush W. in Iraq starting 2004 where the media was out to find everything negative and ignored all the successes. Where you had daily body counts with faces plastered on the TV every night, where every attack on US forces was made into a story, now if US service members are killed or wounded in Syria, it's like it never even happened, crickets.
Like in Ukraine, all you get is success, victory, all is great and fine stories with a small sprinkle of how a bunch of ISIS types are taking control of the place and in some cases we backed them.
Where are the stories questioning our motives, since it's surely not “democracy,” seeing how these are folks that just a few years ago wanted to create a Caliphate. Where are the concerns for peoples rights, since these folks aren't on board with LGBTQIA, feminism, freedom of religion or free speech, seeing how some of these groups taking power today were bragging on video not to long ago as the cut off heads of infidels and those that support them.
Things change quickly-
But one thing is for sure, I will never use the term “terrorist” again, even in the most egregious attack on us. Why? Seeing how we outright backed terrorist attacks in Russia, or were complacent about it, in the last two years, and how we back whack-jobs in Syria and Libya (when it serves our interests), this concept of a “terrorist” is no longer valid. It's just a pejorative used by one side to describe the actions of the other, but where both sides are equally stinky from the poop they are flinging.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/02/us-warning-russia-isis-crocus/
One man's terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and the idea that we have a moral high-ground is gone.
Once Trump is in office, will the US and European news media remain as "supportive" in every decision the administration makes?