Posted on 12/15/2016 4:58:26 AM PST by Clive
Aleppo has fallen. The last and sturdiest bastion of the Syrian uprising is gone. The Battle of Aleppo is over, the revolution is finished, and the Syrian mass murderer Bashar al-Assad has won. Russia has won. Iran has won. Hezbollah has won. The United States has lost. The United Nations has lost, and the bloody war in Syria, already having taken nearly half a million lives, goes on.
Aleppo mattered, it should go without saying, but it’s worthwhile enumerating what did not matter. You can start with Aleppo’s 31,000 dead and proceed from there through each and every statutory war crime codified by the International Criminal Court.
Mass murder by chlorine gas. Massacres of innocents. Bombardments by Russian jet fighters. The deliberate targeting of hospitals and clinics. The firing of mortar rounds into crowded neighbourhoods. The terror of barrel bombs dropped from Syrian army helicopters. The starvation siege that followed the city’s encirclement by Shia death squads and Assadist militias on Sept. 8.
None of that mattered, not the hourly imagery on Instagram and YouTube and Twitter of corpse-strewn streets and decapitated infants, and not the gut-wrenching final goodbyes uploaded to mobile phones or sent by text from the survivors in the rebel-held ruins of the Old City, the al-Shaar district, and the backstreets of Sheikh Saeed.
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Wilson’s fault.
Didn’t ISIS take over the anti-Syrian forces?
Hasn’t it been awhile that it was Assad v ISIS for some time?
It is difficult to keep up with players without a scorecard.
But...but...our purported “leaders” (who obviously are our “betters”) continue to tell us that moozlums are peaceful and peace-loving. Our “leaders” wouldn’t lie to us...would they?
Correction to the title: ‘May Allah look up from....’
LET ME REPEAT THAT!
“Secular strongman
or
Fundamentalist Jihadis
It’s actually an easy choice. The better of these two alternatives is currently winning the war in Syria.
Globalists/Progressives are sad about that, but I am not.
5 posted on 12/15/2016, 8:06:10 AM by ClearCase_guy
ME NEITHER.
We were better off and WOULD BE NOW if all the middle east strongmen were still in power.
Is Israel safer today?
Has all of our meddling and attempts of “nation building” (REGION building) created “stability” in the middle east?
Has Obama’s embrace of middle east muslims borne any fruit?
Perhaps “Durian”
(The persistence of its odor, which may linger for several days, has led to the fruit’s banishment from certain hotels and public transportation in Southeast Asia.)
This is a big reason his Assad policy has been such a failure.
Some people just refuse to get it: Putin and Russia are the good guys. Especially in the middle east, where they uphold Russia’s centuries-old responsibility of being a strong big brother to local Christians.
America does not like Christians abroad. They pray funny and care deeply about things american Christians have been taught to despise. We despised and abused them in the Spanish-american War, in the demolition of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the selling out of Eastern Europe and forced repatriations after WWII, in the betrayal and assasination of of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, and most recently in the horrific fraud of the 2003 Iraq War, which unleashed islamic fundamentalists onto the heads of Iraqi and Syrian Christians exposed and unprotected by the despicable Bush and Obama administrations.
It is happening again. Middle east Christians are being wiped out to the man. They are slaughtered in their villages in Syria and Iraq. When they manage to escape, they are murdered in the refugee camps. If they get to the boats headed for Europe they are tossed overboard and drowned. Once they get to Germany they are assaulted in the streets.
And US State Department policy is that Christians do not meet State criteria for consideration as refugees because... they are being murdered by a non-state entity. The Syrian rebels (Al Qaeda) and ISIS are non-state entities, therefor their victims do not qualify as refugees for relocation to the US.
Assad is a state actor, therefor his victims (Al Qaeda and ISIS supporters) do qualify as refugees.
That's why less than 1% of Syrian refugees in the US are Christians, and there have been Syrian Christians who made it to the US who were booted right back out by Obama's State Department. As I said, we are on the wrong side of this war. And this war could end tomorrow if Obama and the Turks willed it so.
Amen, that’s exactly right. We’ll see less of this nonsense now, the white hats are taking over.
And ya’ don’t have to go to every party you’re invited to.
What will be hilarious is how after staying completely out of the war, Indian and Chinese steel and concrete companies will make billions rebuilding Syria.
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Sounds good to me.
Egypt and Israel are natural allies, dating back to Joseph in the Bible. But people forget that it was a Persian king, Cyrus the Great, who is one of the most revered gentiles to Jews. Here's why:
Cyrus the Great (c. 600 or 576 – 530 BC) figures in the Hebrew Bible as the patron and deliverer of the Jews. He is mentioned 23 times by name and alluded to several times more. Cyrus, king of Persia, was the monarch under whom the Babylonian captivity ended (after the destruction of the First Jewish Temple, for according to the Bible, in the first year of his reign he was prompted by God to make a decree that the Temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt and that such Jews as cared to might return to their land for this purpose. Moreover, he showed his interest in the project by sending back with them the sacred vessels which had been taken from the First Temple and a considerable sum of money with which to buy building materials.
Some rabbis now are calling Donald Trump "The News Cyrus" and expect him -- and Putin -- to support the building of a 3rd Temple. Surely peace between Israel and Iran is possible given this extraordinary history. (Of course, there was Haman too...)
Only one problem...Pakistan's nukes. The idiot, imbicile, money-f**ker George W. Bush should have seized those nukes after 9/11 instead of trusting his new BFF Musharaff -- who himself helped create the Taliban. I have no problem letting the Muslim animals slaughter each other, as long as they are de-nuked first.
Here’s Trump’s VP, Mike Pence, on Syria and KGB Putin...
From the recent (first) VP debate, on Oct 5, 2016:
“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts. That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”
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Also from the Oct 5, 2016 first VP debate...
QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?
PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset.
After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.
And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America — the greatest nation on Earth — just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.
It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War.
We’ve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.
And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.
There’s a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.
QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.
PENCE: We’ve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they’re dealing with a strong American president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html
Fake news.
When pressed by RT (Russia Today), the State Department could not back up this claim.
Half million muslims dead, and they’re still fighting? Who am I to complain.
The UN is an INeffective and BS entity, a waste of space and money. As for France and Germany, they should shut their trap, and worry about what’s and has been going on inside those countries. Next time a Jihadi or ISIS group opens fire in those countries, Hollande and Merkel should acknowledge it is the result of their own policies.
Russia Today, eh? RT is a Moscow-controlled proganda outlet.
You really need to see the interactions between the RT employee and the state department person at the press briefings. When the State department are lying out their asses, other journalists also jump in to press for answers from the liars at State.
I understand what RT is however that has nothing to do with the State department propagating lies.
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