Posted on 04/11/2018 7:47:48 PM PDT by Mariner
They conflate a silly tweet (one which I wish had not been sent), with an incoherent policy.
When in fact, they don’t like Trump’s policy of withdraw and ceding Syria to Assad.
Kind of like his incoherent twitter policy in NK that has them talking about denuclearization of the peninsula?
“Kind of like his incoherent twitter policy in NK that has them talking about denuclearization of the peninsula?”
No, not even close.
That was brilliant application and assertion of US policy.
That was Regan being caught on a hot mike, not an announced POTUS position.
I guess the difference is that the Soviets actually WERE A THREAT to us and our interests (such as Western Europe and Japan). I’m still trying to figure out why having a relative handful of Putin’s military in Syria is a threat to us...and such a threat that it’s worth trading cities over.
But perhaps some of the Hillary/Obama/McCain supporting Neocons will let us know.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.
Not a hot mike, he was joking with the technicians.
It was later leaked.
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall. “
That was a sound political admonition when the cold war was already essentially won.
It’s all about Israel, a short distance away, and Iran and our renewed “friend” SA.
Complicated business...
The fact that we are even considering going to war in Syria on behalf of Al Qaeda & Jaish al Islam (who want to rape & behead Syrian Christians and have done so) means that something has gone terribly wrong.
We reduce Raqqa Syria to rubble and killed thousands of civilians this past year, many buried under ruble. Just like the Syrian govt does. No one express moral qualms about it.
Syrians living there don’t want to be bombed by us and given over to McCain’s Jihadist head-choppers, that’s the fact.
This isn’t worth even a 1% chance of war with Russia.
I hope!
“Its all about Israel, a short distance away, and Iran and our renewed friend SA.”
Who’s threatening Israel? They have had better relations with Russia than us for the past 20 years, and have MUCH BETTER relations now.
Iran is a bunch of dicks, agreed - but if they’re the problem, perhaps attack them, rather than Russia.
Should I have gone for evil empire instead?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_empire
And another meltdown, the Evil Empire Reagan speech.
Keep them angry, Trump. Their anguish is in a way gratifying.
He said he was going to be unpredictable. This is as unpredictable as we can get.
I have misgivings, similar to Tucker Carlson about the provenance of the alleged gas attack. It just doesn’t make sense to provoke a superpower 2nd to none.
If it was Syria, it’s a cold and calculated move by the Russians. If it wasn’t, it was a false flag operation. It was triggered off of Trump saying we’re going to withdraw from Syria (BTW is a perfectly good announcement on any media). Twitter or otherwise. You don’t catch any grouse without beating the bush.
Just about every Islamic with a rocket.
For some crazy (to me anyway) reason(s) the Rooskies love them some Iranian mullahs. In Syria it seems Iran=Russia=Iran. It's more than complicated, it's crazy. Tamping down Iranian hegemony seems to require confrontation with the Rooskies.
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