Barack Obama has given little thought or consideration to the potential ramifications for the region and the world if he takes limited missile action in Syria meant only to 'send a message' and little else.
Saturday 7 September 2013
Americans' Support for U.S. Military Action in Syria is Lowest in Last 20 Years
Well, the president's such a liar, it's no wonder.
See, "Public Support for War in Syria Lower Than for Any Other Conflict in Last 20 Years."
Syria: It's All a Blur
It's been a rough week for President Barack "Blurred Lines" Obama.
See, "Blurred Red Lines."
Plus, "Rush Limbaugh Slams Barack Hussein's 'Psychopathic' Blame-Shifting on Syria 'Red Lines'."
And, "VIDEO: 'My Credibility is Not On the Line...'"
BONUS: "'I'd like to know what rock the staff at the NYTimes has been hiding under for the last two years. It's a happy place. I'm guessing there are ponies and rainbows there too...'"
(At this point there's little doubt that the "secular" Free Syrian Army is a myth. Extremists have infiltrated the main rebel forces and independent al Qaeda forces control whole sections of northern Syria. The U.S. would have to invade and defeat both Assad's regime and the terrorists. We'd be in country for a decade or more, which is why even neocons like me aren't backing President Blurred Lines.)
More continuing and exclusive Syria coverage at the link.
I Just Love This Lady!
Sabine Jemeljanova.
She's becoming one of my favorite breast-blogging babes. Her tits are fantastic!
Late News.................
An old Northern fossil…
Conservatives sweep to Australia election victory
Ed Asner Explains Hollywood Silence on Obama, Syria: They 'Don't Want to Feel Anti-Black'
Obama's Syria push stymied by Iraq fatigue
Poop, there it is: New test for exotic civet coffee
The Great Recession is over for these banks
Rick Steves: Where to find Europe's best beer
Obama Lobbying Congress From Sand Trap
There won’t be American boots on the ground in Syria
America Needs A Real Leader
Conservative Landslide in Australian Elections
Borei super-subs trials may be postponed after Bulava ‘failure’
Can China Save the Motor City?
Syria's rebels and soldiers agree: military strikes will change nothing
Physics: No, you can't tip a cow
Al Furqan Brigades claim 2 attacks on ships in Suez Canal, threaten more
Will Obama ignore the House on Syria attack?
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - On Syria
America the ignorant
Yes, we have no bananas.............from Rico
Yawn. Another 'Payroll Friday' courtesy of manipulated BLS data and a talking parrot media
- Spin, distort, confuse the sheeple. It reminds me of the old saying: If you don't read the papers you are uninformed, but if you do read the papers you are misinformed.
Here is "change" and "transformation" presented in two graphs, which are apparently too simple and not 'nuanced' enough to be shared by the Ministry of Truth.
- The number of people NOT in the labor force rose by 516,000 in one month, increasing the total number of people NOT in te labor force to a record 90.5 million Americans.
- The Labor Force Participation Rate is now back to 1978 levels. Repeat after me: Jimmuh-Jimmuh-Jimmuh!
Santelli had it right the other day when he rhetorically asked "What are we, a Banana Republic?"
- Well, Rick, so it would appear.
"Obama Churches" - Wild Bill
What are we to think of churches that claim to be Christian, but support Obama?
Must Read: Open letter from Vietnam Vet to Barack Obama over Syria!...from TPC
A must read open letter from a Vietnam Veteran to Barack Obama that explains in a way that even this President can understand why it is that his vacillating performance and unclear strategy concerning Syria are so incredibly dangerous!
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Flashback: Pearl Harbor and Benghazi redlines! (Posters)...from TPC
Using the logic of community organizers, Ivory Tower dwellers and career politicians the process of lobbing cruise missiles into Syria with no plan or endgame is merely punitive punishment, not an act of war!
Does that mean the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor really wasn't an act of war either?
And what about those redlines in Benghazi?
And what about those redlines in Benghazi?
Not shocked, not surprised.........................from Rico
It was neither a shock nor a surprise to see the "wise guys" stage a paper raid around the bogus NFP jobs report.
- This is what they do.
It was NO surprise, and NOT shocking to see the Cartel vigorously defending $1400 Gold and $24 Silver today.
It is clear on the charts (unless you're eating donuts at the SEC).
- Again, this is wha the crooks do.
News..................
WaPo whip count: 224 likely no votes in House on Syria now, enough to kill resolution
Analysis: France hawkish stand on Syria a pattern
Iran Plots Revenge, U.S. Says
The Red Lines Obama Chooses To Ignore…
How Mike Huckabee saved 30A? South Walton artery to be repaired sooner rather than later
Florida delegation mostly against Syria strike
Volcano the size of Arizona discovered
White House Down
169,000 net jobs created in August; June, July numbers drastically lowered
FDA tests find very low levels of arsenic in rice
53 Homicides, 224 Wounded In The Month Of August In Rahm’s Chicago
Florida Representative Dares To Speak The Truth—NOT Sure Obama Is American
Grin and bear it: Homeowners find mama and bear cub playing in their yard
Tea Party, Rainy Day Patriot leaders call on members of Congress to defund Obamacare
Task force in Baldwin County seizes $1.4 million
Obama’s Chickens are Coming Home to Roost
Congress Voices Concern that U.S. Strikes Will Boost Syria’s Islamist Rebels
The Most Embarrassing President of My Lifetime
US Air Force will also target Syria’s air force, ballistic missiles and sections of its air defenses
Fatah Wants Egypt To Overthrow Hamas
Troubled waters: Naval forces line Syrian shores
Syria: Russia will stand by Assad over any US strikes, warns Putin
Poland redux...stealing to make safer..........................from Rico
You simply cannot make this stuff up!
To summarize Poland's "bail-in"...
- Government has too much debt to issue more debt.
- Goverment nationalizes (loots) private pension funds making their debt holding an "asset" and comingling with other public assets.
- Confiscated assets net-out sovereign debt liability, lowering the debt/GDP ratio.
- Debt/GDP drops enough for government to issue MORE sovereign debt.
- Government can now borrow and spend even more. What could possibly go wrong?
Besides, they still have the Zloty so they have the option of 'printing' more of them, a la Ben Bernanke monetizing the debt).
Best of all.....wait for it.....the government just said that their action (stealing) re: pensions was 'positive' and would make them "safer."
- Yeah! I'll just bet those lucky pensioners feel a whole lot 'safer' about now............
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Friday 6 September 2013
ZoNation: What Can Republicans Do for the Black Community?
Zo keeps getting asked what Republicans can do for the Black community. He says they can do a lot, but only if the community stops being in lockstep with the Democratic Party. Stop being brainwashed long enough to hear the answer.
Ignore the gorilla!....................from Rico
Having access to foreign and foreign language press and media, it has amused me for some time what stories the American MSM chooses NOT to report.
- What is 'ignored' says a quite a lot.
Here is a 'story' that is NOT being reported by the US Financial Media (not by Bloomberg, CNBC, NBC Business, MSN Money....well, you get the idea), I just checked btw:
The Polish government just reduced its debt by nationalising assets held in private pension funds (retirement accunts) without any compensation.
The government, of course, is 'spinning' this as an overhaul of pension funds, moving all private bond assets to a state fund (to be followed by private equity assets).
This will reduce public (government) debt by about 8% of GDP.
- This is what happens when politicians spend the government into financial insolvency.
But...but....but, the US is NOT Poland!
- Correcto mundo! It's WORSE!
The 800-pound gorilla that is being purposely ignored by the US MSM is this: Private assets are being taken by a government without any compensation. Reread that.
- This puts an entirey "new" dimension to being 'Corzined' or 'Cyprused' and you have to ask yourself when (not if) your government will be doing this to YOU.
I am serious. Do you really think you can trust this collection of sociopathic thieves and liars to have YOUR best interests at heart?
- Of course they do not. They will take care of #1...and #1 ain't YOU, you're not even #2!
Be wary when words like "reform" or "overhaul" or "improved" or "streamlined" start being used.
- It will be painful for YOU and not the government.
The Middle East's Peace of the Grave
By Alan Caruba
After both great wars of the last century nations got together to create organizations that would ensure that large conflicts would not occur again.
After World War I, it was the League of Nations. When Woodrow Wilson (who was reelected in 1916 after promising to keep the U.S. out of the war in Europe) tried to get the U.S. to sign on, membership in the League was rejected by Congress in the interest of retaining our national sovereignty. The Versailles Treaty that followed the defeat of Germany also set in motion all the elements of that led to World War II and the creation of colonies, new nation-states, in the Middle East by the French and British after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Even as World War II was winding down, Franklin D. Roosevelt had work begun on the creation of the United Nations.
In 2007, in response to a question from New York Times’ editors, then Senator Barack Obama explained how he would resolve the problems in Syria. “I would meet directly with Syrian leaders. We would engage in a level of aggressive personal diplomacy in which a whole host of issues are on the table…Iran and Syria would start changing their behavior if they started seeing that they had some incentives to do so, but right now the only incentive that exists is our president (Bush) suggesting that if you do what we tell you, we may not blow you up.”
“My belief about the regional powers in the Middle East is that they don’t respond well to that kind of bluster. They haven’t in the past, there’s no reason to think they will in the future.”
So, naturally, the President is currently threatening Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with military action and, having decided to let Congress determine whether he should be granted permission to proceed, may be deterred if it votes to deny it.
George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 after putting together a “coalition of the willing” and going to the United Nations to secure a resolution permitting that action. His Secretary of State, Colin Powell, made a presentation to the Security Council in which he presented proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Obama’s Secretary of State has argued forcefully for U.S. intervention in Syria to rid the nation of Assad, but America currently has no international support, including longtime ally Great Britain.
Bush’s intervention in Iraq, March 2003 to April 2009, led to casualties whose estimates range from 110,600 by the Associated Press to more than a million by the Opinion Research Business Survey. The intervention in Libya in 2011 had estimates of casualties of protesters, armed belligerents, and civilians ranging from 2,000 to 30,000.
Even a “limited” military action in Syria would inflict more casualties, adding to the 100,000 that Assad has already slaughtered and is likely to expand the war into Lebanon, home to Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, as well as Jordan and possibly Turkey. Americans are telling their representatives in Congress not to engage our military.
Writing in The Weekly Standard on September 6, Reuel Marc Gherecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a contributing editor, dissected the problems posed by Syria and Iran, along with al Qaeda. “When it comes to the Middle East, Obama’s presidency has largely been predicated on two ideas: A hegemonic America is a bad thing, and the second Iraq war was a serious mistake.”
“Time has been unkind to Obama,” said Gherecht. “The withdrawal from Iraq has not left that country better off…al Qaeda now boasts, along with Iran and its militant Iraqi allies, that it drove the Americans out of the country.” Hardly a week has gone by since American military forces left that bombs by Sunni militants have not killed Shiite Iraqis.
In Syria, as Assad’s forces have been unable to quell the rebellion, he has turned to the use of poison gas.
In Egypt, Obama originally backed the Muslim Brotherhood’s overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and in Syria in August 2011 he had told Assad he had to go. It took action by the Egyptian military to remove the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood. Libya remains in a chaotic state between its tribal factions. The civil war in Syria rages on.
“Barack Obama,” says Gherecht, “is now the American everyone in the region loves to hate.”
Worse than that, warning of the need to intercede in Syria, he said “That so many in the West don’t see this, and are unwilling to go to war to stop such an atrocity—to send a clear signal to tyrants elsewhere—only shows how far we’ve come since 9/11. The Middle East’s power politics have again, hit us head on. We are, perhaps, too ‘fatigued’ this time round for the challenge.”
The only peace in the Middle East is the peace of the grave and the region threatens to erupt into a wider conflagration in much the same way World War II followed in the wake of the World War I.
International organizations, the United Nations, the European Union, NATO, the Arab League, and others have proven themselves incapable of a diplomatic resolution to the self-interest of Middle East dictators and monarchies, and the growing tide of Islamic fanaticism.
Barack Obama, with his pathological narcissism, believed that his Muslim upbringing and his Marxist ideology held the key to bringing peace to the Middle East. He has been proven wrong in the same way his domestic policies are bankrupting America and his foreign policies are dragging it into a war he desperately wanted to avoid and now feels compelled to pursue.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
Crossroads GPS: Propaganda - The Best Ever Ad for Obamacare!
Obamacare: if millionaire celebrities can afford us, why can't you?
H/T Shelly
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General Scales: Pentagon embarrassed by Obama!...from TPC
While this President obviously has no capacity to act in the role of Commander-in-Chief, his bold action rhetoric followed by long-term inaction, finger pointing, attempts at consensus building and non-existent strategy over Syria borders on the extremely dangerous and potentially catastrophic!
Read at The Political Commentator here.
News........................
CDR Salamander: Bigger than the broadside of a barn...
Aircraft Carriers or Not? Flattops in the Pacific
Raw: Clerk pulls gun on would-be thief
AP reporter to State spox: Did the WH have its spine removed, or what?
Numbers in Congress show Obama short of win on Syria action
A War the Pentagon Doesn't Want
Community Organizer Goes to War
Smart power: Pentagon "clairifies" Hagel claim that Russia supplied chemical weapons to Syria
John Kerry 1971: The U.S. must beware of foreign intervention for moralistic reasons
Report: U.S. intercepts Iranian order for attack on U.S. interests in Iraq
Blurred Red Lines. Harry Truman, please call Obama.
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Anthony Weiner gets into shouting match with voter, looks like he's down a vote
Ballistic Missiles Make War More AND Less Likely
Is China Occupying 640 km of Indian Territory?
Special Ops Vet Group Wants Truth About Benghazi Before Syria Strike
75,000 troops needed to secure chemical weapons if Damascus falls
Al-Qaeda seizes Syrian village that still speaks language of Christ
Spain offers Argentina Falklands support
PJTV - "Hell, No! We Won't Go!" -- New Motto of the United States Armed Forces??
Photos of armed forces personnel with homemade signs covering their faces and phrasing depicting their unease with getting involved in the Syrian conflict started popping up on the internet this weekend. Are our men and women in uniform really rebellious about a possible military action in Sryia, or have we been hacked by the Sryian government? Find out on this Trifecta with Stephen Green, Scott Ott and Tammy Bruce.
The penultimate 'red line'........................from Rico
Bugger all!
- If it does NOT smart having to agree that Putin is right once again!
Gee...d'ya THINK SecState (bow to my ego) Kerry is lying through his teeth?
- Well, why else would he have 'replaced' Hitlery Clinton in a regime riddled with Marxists and Liars (pardon the redundancy).
What day is it is TODAY?
- Anyone 'see' or 'remember' this little item from 29 January? I did not think so.
Barry & Fellow Travelers 'foreign policy' is to support, aid, abet, and finance ANY Islamic fundamentalist group (but with special consideration to the ideology of Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin's beloved Muslim Brotherhood).
At least Barry did NOT lie...HIS reputation is not at stake, nor his ego w.r.t. Syria.
- It is his AGENDA that is at stake.
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