The irony is too much here.
Here are some quotes, along with some enlightening links for context:
"The leader of Al-Qaeda has voiced his support for the Syrian uprising. In an eight-minute video posted on Sunday on a jihadist website, Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims in Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan to aid the Syrian rebels."
"Washington and mainstream media insist the Syrian government is fighting against peaceful protesters."
This guy says otherwise.
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recently called for "friends of democratic Syria" to unite against the regime. And to convene on February 24th to work out ways to further squeeze the Assad regime and bring Syrian opposition groups inside and outside the country together."
Meanwhile, while the US doggedly pursues intervention in certain nations for "humanitarian reasons", the escalating genocide in South Africa is solidly ignored.
"Humanitarian intervention" is code for "the people we want to win are losing". Remember the "humanitarian" intervention in Libya... and the lack of it when the Kurds the US encouraged to rise up against Saddam were slaughtered.
Now, there would seem to be some interesting currents running through the US' recent foreign policy moves. On the one hand, the US is preparing for war with Iran, more or less on Israel's behalf. On the other hand, the US is taking actions elsewhere that will ensure that the situation in the Middle East does nothing but continue to escalate. Do folks think the new Egyptian and Libyan governments are friendly towards the US and Israel? Do the same folks think what arises after regime change in Syria and Iran will be any different?
It's almost like the US, Israel, Al-Qaeda, Iran, Syria...it's almost like we're all marionettes, whirling around in patterns of ever-increasing speed and velocity, barely avoiding a catastrophic entanglement with each turn.
My take?
We're being played. All of us.
Some questions to consider out loud or internally.
Who is going to benefit from all this, in the end?
Who is losing now? Who will have lost in 20 years?
Who is winning?
Who is paying for it? What will the return on their investment be?
And most importantly, what can you and I do about it?
I like your questions ... wish more people would think like that.
ReplyDeleteYou're right.We are being played.As for what to do about it,we all know what has to be done when a homicidal maniac is driving the bus.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back.
Ontoliberty
We can try to find in-corruptable men and women of principal. We can test them and,if real, try to get them in public offices.
ReplyDeleteAfter all the reverse is how the illuminati tried to operate until supposedly banned in the late 1700's.
Are those sort of people out there. Almighty God, I hope so.
kdzu,
DeleteI think WE are those people you wonder about....
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I don't have all the answers but if something doesn't happen soon we are likely going to be involved in WWW III...
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Hillary has been in bed with the arabs since the 60's and after with Alinksy. This was her payoff for not opposing obama in an election, she got to help reunite the middle east under the muslim brotherhood, her long time paymasters.. Her and her activist pals aka "Democracy Activists" like Ray LaHoods kid have been in every country thats been over thrown and its why his punk kid is in jail in egypt.. can I prove it, nope but all it takes to see is to follow the travels and money..
ReplyDeleteIran is a distraction for things here at home.
Yank lll
kdzu & Chris,
ReplyDeleteyou're right. We are the ones we are looking for. I don't care to run for any form of office, nor do any of us, but we are the ones that know right from wrong, that understand where the right path leads to.
I was once a damn fine NCO, had excellent fitness reports, and realize, that if needed , could lead again if I had to. So some of you had better understand, leadership chooses YOU! Or, let another idiot lead you around because you weren't man enough for the job. Tough times will call all of us out, in one way or another. How many of us want to be a medic/corpsman? I don't, but may have to. I know I have the skills, have used them before, so why duck out and force someone to die or receive poor care when you could have done it better?
Do the best you know how, or suffer the consequences.
So, Chris are you going to run fir office?
ReplyDeleteAP - Stupidity in some actions doesn't necessarily equates to stupidity in all actions.
The hypocrisy is that we, the US government, say we are doing it for noble / higher reason; when, in fact we are just looking out for our own interests. Look out for our own interests is not necessarily in abd if itself a bad thing.
This has been my position. Not that we are doing the morally superior thing, just that we as a people/state might have the right to look out for our own interests.
Hmmm...
I haven't been able to make sense of it either. I'm sure the folks driving this have access to Intel we don't but, I don't see how it serves our or western interests to kick open all those hornet's nests over there.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't help the Muslims there much either, as there is to be massive bloodshed and loss of resources for them.
Must be the banksters..., fund the destruction, fund the reconstruction.
My best guess anyway.
PS. Yes AP who's orecived interest is a worthy question.
ReplyDeleteJosh K,
ReplyDeleteBeen there done that on the local level. It's a thankless and lecherous "job" at all levels. Politics is dead.
There's no i in the word team,and that's what "office" is anymore.
Thanks fir asking.
And that Ladies and Gentalmen is why we are fucked. Our sides to damn lazy to do the work. The left will slowly chip away for a hundred years to get what they want. We get a Tea Party going and it doesn't get the results we want in two years fuck it lets move on. We don't like the quality of The political class we'll whine about it, will threaten their families, but god forbid we actually participate and try to change the Washington culture.
ReplyDeleteThis why what ever we do will turn to shit, because we're to damn lazy to be stewards of our government. What ever we build from the ashes will just get turned over to those willing to lead....
Thanks for trying Chris more people should get in yheir and get their hands dirty.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of South Africa: a few years ago, in the Thanksgiving/Christmas season, the CEO of my company sent a company-wide email talking about how he was going there for various business contacts, and how amazed he was each time he went there, at the progress the South Africans were making since the end of apartheid, and how the government leaders there remind him of our own Founding Fathers.
ReplyDeleteJacob Zuma was convicted of rape. His defense was that he took a shower afterward.
I had to delete the CEO's mail to prevent myself from doing something career-ending.
hmmmm...I think MEK has ties to Mossad and CIA...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/280604/bomb-suspects-were-anti-iran-exiles
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