Posted on 09/10/2013 3:51:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hey Townhall, you can take your popups and shove
em.
I agree...they’ve gotten very, very annoying ....
At bottom, Assad is staying the course because he will not hand the land of his ancestors over Sunni Muslim troglodytes. Now, why would he, being a Muslim himself, be averse to being ruled by other Muslims? Because Alawites aren't Muslims. Hafez Assad paid got some big name mullah to call Alawites Shiites*, back in the 1970's, but their core beliefs, (1) there is no God but Ali, (2) a pantheon of saints that includes Aristotle, Plato and the Virgin Mary, (3) the non-prohibition of alcohol consumption and (4) a belief in reincarnation, suggest that both Shiites and Sunnis on the street are right to consider them to be non-Muslims at best and apostates or pagans at worst. If Alawites are Muslims, then Bahais, Sikhs and Muslims are really Christians, because they all incorporate elements of Christianity, and all of the preceding are really Jews, because they all incorporate elements of Judaism.
* Mainly to pacify Sunnis who were averse to being ruled by non-Muslims.
What if the entire Syria debacle is just a ruse being used by slick lawyers that surround the regime in order to keep all eyes away from Obama’s true jeopardy which is impeachment due to Benghzi, egypt among other scandals.?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3064859/posts?page=2
“Please , Brer ‘Bama, don’t throw me in dat dere briar patch!”
Oh really? Now it's a fact? I still think the rebels did it. Haven't seen definitive proof otherwise.
http://shoebat.com/2013/08/27/evidence-syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapons-not-assad/
It does not make a lot of sense that Assad after possessing chem weapons for many years all of a sudden decides to use them just when the entire world is watching.Not too prudent or even rational.
I heard Assad on talk radio yesterday challening anyone with proof positive that his side released the gas to please show the proof,no taker so far.
I agree, the chess game is being played by al queerda not Assad
Brilliant post here and yet another reason (as if we needed any) as to why the US should drill its own oil and stay the hell out of the mid-east.
Chuck:
Yhooz wong.
There wouldn’t be a civil but, for government fomenting the unrest.
Assad didn’t gas anyone.
I mean really, what is there to be gained by gassing a bunch women and children?
Theyyyyy, were combatants? I don’t see how that attrites his enemies.
I do see how suddenly there is synthetic pleas from our government representatives for us to give them permission to stop this so called atrocity.
We’re not buying it.
Not because Barack is in charge. Hell, we disagree with Lindsey Graham, John McCcain, Rubio, Cantor, et al.
We simply don’t see the point.
We destroyed knowns in Egypt, Lybia and a few other places. If Assad falls the next guy out on a plane will be the King of Jordan. A good man who we are putting pressure on and undermining the stability of his nation.
Stay out of Syria and stop aiding the rebels.
nice piece
explains why the Saudis have religious incentive (other than economic) to set loose the hounds of al Qaeda in trying to bring Syria down- though for some reason they have given Egypt a stay of execution
has anyone noticed that Saudi Arabia - not Iran - may actually be the biggest threat to world peace because our president and apparently half our congress, plus Wall Street, bows to them?
Good catch. The Saudis are slicker than anyone knows. They get away with buying both sides 24/7. And if you look on the list of who flew the planes into our buildings during 911 the Saudis are high on the list.
Chuck Norris has made the mistake of asserting that Assad used the chem weapons - but we have no evidence of that.
The problem is the Saudi people, who are troglodytes. The Saudi royals have to make a few gestures in the direction of helping the Syrian rebels, who are their co-religionists. If the Saudi royals were spending real money, the rebels would not be running short of supplies. It's not even clear to me that the Saudi royals actually want to remove Assad. But they have to be seen to want to remove Assad.
Neocons think that inside every foreigner is an American struggling to get out. That can actually happen, if we kill most of the fighting age men and indoctrinate the locals into thinking that their forebears were the personification of evil, as we did in Japan and Germany during the postwar period. But short of that, they are who they are - the product of the local historical narrative that, in most non-Western historical traditions, sees the world as composed of near and far enemies to be subjugated for the in-group's (tribe, nation, ethnicity, religion, et al) benefit.
Like the Shah, the Saudi royals are riding the tiger (i.e. a troglodyte populace that doesn't feel like changing, whose views have been reinforced by Allah's bounty of unlimited oil reserves). They are contributing nugatory amounts money to the rebels in order to keep the domestic fanatics pacified, and to give Assad the opportunity to kill off some of the more motivated fanatics who have actually gone to Syria to fight. But I don't think they are providing anywhere near the $30b they handed over to us for Desert Storm. Because if that were the case, Assad would be sitting in exile somewhere in Moscow.
Iran is a problem mainly because of its nuke program. Take away the nukes and Iran's just another poorly-armed Communist state with mullahs in place of commissars, due to its centrally-planned economy. But with the nukes, Iran can really throw its weight around. Like it or not, if Iran nukes our troops, responding in kind with respect to Iran's population centers is gonna be a really difficult political decision to make. I don't think that, politically-speaking, we can respond with nukes, even though that's what we say to deter adversaries. Besides, why have to make that decision? Take out Iran's nukes and we won't ever have to face that dilemma. Obama's using Syria to distract us from the necessity of taking out Iran's nuclear program. That McCain and some other factions of the GOP are backing this tomfoolery over Syria is disgraceful.
“Neocons think that inside every foreigner is an American struggling to get out.”
Perfect statement.
Even in the USA, there are plenty of our own citizens that hate the USA and would love to see the country degraded or even destroyed.
Oh yeah? Are YOU going to tell Chuck Norris he's wrong?
Nope, but he is misinformed!
Hey - I’ve heard that guns carry Chuck Norris for protection... ;-P
Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Chuck Norris stories.
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