Waiting on a Friend

Once again, great artwork, EJ.

Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

Once again, great artwork, EJ.

The only thing that stands between you and me and the collapse of civilization is that thin green line... you need men like that on that line... you want men like that on that line...

Peter - I’d rather be quizzed by Barbara Bush about my speech.

Rob - this never happened before Trump.

James - not another global warming lecture when it’s 10 below.

The Ambassador has a profoundly dishonest narrative of the Syrian Civil War. To say that Assad could not establish control of the territory of Syria for 5 years therefore the US must seek his replacement in the face of widespread knowledge that the "moderate"opposition was supplied with vast amounts of armament by agents of the United States and Saudi Barabaria (as Nassim Taleb has aptly labeled the source of the global Salafist contagion) & friends is too clever by half. "Let's just skip ahead from the beginning of the war to 2015," to paraphrase what I just heard on my drive home. Yup...nothing important happened in that time frame at the behest of the Obama Administration involving arms makers from around the world, Libya, & Syria. Please.

Where we are today seems so confusing and the actions of rational actors insane in the cognitive dissonance created by leaving out critically important facts to conveniently avoid accountability for instigating meat-grinder conflicts in which again our national security state has supplied arms to our civilizational enemies (Salafist jihadis) in order to serve the interests of "our friends" the Saudis and to weaken Russian influence through proxy wars.

Old Russians hands such as C. Rice chose to let the Russians suffer from the attacks of Muslim radicals rather than to make common cause to follow through on the principles spoken in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Every terrorist movement in the worlds was to be treated as the enemy of all civilized people. We were going to support every nation against insurgencies - particularly Muslim - that used tactics of terrorism. Yet, Ms. Rice could go before cameras and urge that the Russians show restraint against the Chechens and that we were terribly concerned about humans rights abuses in Russia's actions to put down their terroristic insurgents. It was just too easy to hold weakened Russia to a standard that we did not follow in our wars against that murderous ideology.

It's not as if playing footsie with Muslim radicals to advance short-term objectives could ever turn around to cause grave harm to our nation in the long run. Right?

It's not a crazy conspiracy that US-supplied arms ended up - again and again...supposedly accidentally...by capture from or incorporation of our "moderate Syrian opposition allies" - in the hands of ISIS. It's well known to anyone who cares to know...outside of this purposefully ignorant re-telling of the Syrian Civil War:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-purple-arms-for-syrian-rebels-20170731-story.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22906965

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/364917-study-shows-us-weapons-given-to-syrian-rebels-ended-up-in-isiss-hands

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/middleeast/cia-arms-for-syrian-rebels-supplied-black-market-officials-say.html

https://www.sofmag.com/look-what-the-u-s-is-sending-to-syrian-rebels-according-to-janes/

Just because you're a Russian paranoic doesn't mean you didn't have enemies and a Clinton-led State Department (and is "techno-experts") fomenting revolutions everywhere from THE Ukraine to Egypt, Libya, Syria, et al.

Reckless cowgirl Clinton took advantage of the compliant, thereby weakened Qaddafi and further reinforced the prevalent understanding around the world: The United States of America - No Better Enemy, No Worse Friend.

"We came. We saw. He died....bahahahahaha!"