Again, that pesky Putin steps in and negotiates a cease-fire between the Eastern rebels and Kiev. So let's fast-forward to the present day and our new geopolitical crisis. This is the one that the government has been waiting for. This is the Granddaddy of scare tactics. It's no matter that President Putin warned us about this last year, this is all new and if you believe the puppy-mill, it has caught us by surprise. (Just like 9/11... PNAC's "New Pearl Harbor").
This situation is all the talking heads wish to speak about. According to all the pundits and panels, ISIS appeared out of nowhere and took half of Syria and Iraq. They cut off the heads of innocent people and slaughtered infidels by the thousands. They seem to have stolen Iraq's weapons and they are selling black-market oil to fund their operation. The whole nation is in lock-step in condemning them and demanding that President Obama gets off his butt and bomb them into oblivion.
The trouble with that particular scenario is that they have all of their "Command and Control" assents in Syria. Now THAT is convenient. Still, they are the #1 World threat. Lindsay Graham has publically stated that they are going to come to the United States and kill all of us. Jeepers, creepers. We have a coalition of France, England, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar to deter them. We say we will do it with airstrikes but everyone has acknowledged that "mission creep" will probably set in and it will take "years" to defeat them. In fact, a divisional headquarters of the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) has been set up in Iraq (not to worry though, it's just to oversee the "advisors").
I have a few questions about all of this. President Obama has told us that we must participate because we are the "indispensible" nation. We have the most powerful armed forces and the best led military "that the World has ever known". He says that it is up to us to lead the way. I'm wondering why Turkey, a nation with the largest military in NATO, doesn't get involved? Also, why not let the Iranians take in ISIS? Iran is Shia and ISIS are Sunni so wouldn't that be a logical step? We give Saudi Arabia 3 Billion dollars a year in military aid, where are they in the scheme of things? What about Egypt? Finally, where is Israel in all of this? Did they spend all of their munitions killing the people of Gaza?
Where are the people that are paid to ask these questions? Where is Bernie Sanders on this? He's great on income inequality, but when it comes to foreign policy, if he's not voting to support Israel's genocidal tendencies, he's mute. Congress can't seem to agree on what day of the week it is, but when it comes to war, they can't reach across the aisle fast enough. Doesn't that tell the American people something?
Where are the people that didn't want to bomb Syria last year? Just why is Assad the worst dictator since Saddam? He was OK when he took in 2 million displaced Iraqi's during the war there and he was good enough for us to have black op "renditions" and to torture suspects for us. What happened? Why doesn't anyone ask? There are scads of "bad guys" out in the World, why is taking him out so important? Do we want him out or are we doing Israel's bidding?
Here is a clip of MP George Galloway speaking to the British Parliament, he sums some things up nicely;
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