23 Kasım 2014 Pazar

Obama's Iraq Strategy Reminds Me Of Vietnam


he Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - defeated the Iraqi army, the Syrian army, the Syrian rebels and the Iraqi Kurdish kobani,kobane,ypg peshmerga; it established a state stretching from Baghdad to Aleppo and from Syria's northern border to the deserts of Iraq in the south. For a long time I was puzzled about the lack of information about the fighting in the former Yugoslavia. Nobody ever said why or what was really happening. When I eventually found out I realised why that was: the mass-murdering genocidal scum were the christians that "our side" was loosely allied with and they were murdering the muslims. Nobody really wanted to tell the general population what mass-murdering scum the christians could be. It was embarrassing. Better to just look aside and let countless muslims be slaughtered. That's why we won't support an independent Kurdistan. If they were capitalists we could turn into a client state, we would be supporting them. There is a strong racial component to the persecution of the Kurds by the Arab states and even Turkey. The Turks are also Indo-European but are a completely distinct group from the Kurds. Supporting the Kurds may be preferable to the alternatives, but they are far from enlightened if they continue this horrific practice. You're mistaken. Libertarian socialism (anarchism) has been around a long, long time. The word libertarian predates the American usage among the right wing. It was originally used by anti-statist socialists. kobani,kobane,ypg See Proudhon, Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Chomsky, Kropotkin. The original meaning refers to anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian socialism, as opposed to the authoritarian variety advocated by Marx. Of course, terrorism is not new. Speaking before this Assembly, President Kennedy put it well: Terror is not a new weapon,” he said. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example.” In the 20th century, terror was used by all manner of groups who failed to come to power through public support. But in this century, we have faced a more lethal kobani,kobane,ypg and ideological brand of terrorists who have perverted one of the world's great religions. With access to technology that allows small groups to do great harm, they have embraced a nightmarish vision that would divide the world into adherents and infidels - killing as many innocent civilians as possible; and employing the most brutal methods to intimidate people within their communities. This is going to sound extremely cold to most people, but the reality is that it's not highly different in western culture, it's just slightly differently arranged: for most of western history, excess male population was decreased by forcing them into military service in standing armies and occasional abberations such as the crusades. Excess female population was decreased by working women to death and holding them culpable for a range of sins the penance for which took from them whatever wealth or property they might have and transferred it to the over-arching authority. hand over chunks of their countries to form a country just for the Jews (Israel). And then Israel "occupied" the remaining bits of Palestine for another 40 years or so, and are still lobbing mortar kobani,kobane,ypg over the "Israeli wall" into Palestinian civilian towns. And by gum, the US keeps sending money and weapons to Israel so they can continue their ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. Australia starting in 2016. North Korea. Israel. New Zealand. Pakistan. Singapore. Sri Lanka. Denmark. Finland. Germany. Ireland. Sweden. Canada. allow women in combat roles. And really, when half those countries don't actually get involved in military conflicts it's hardly an issue. And many of the countries you list restrict women from "front line" service, for whatever that means these days. The US has women serving in roles that may require them to return fire as well. The sudden flurry of revelations about the Khorasan Group” in the past two weeks smacks of strategic leaks and political spin. Even if the information provided is entirely correct, which it may well be, the timing can hardly be coincidental—within two weeks of the first press reports, attacks had started against Fadhli and his allies in Syria. Rather, these leaks seem to have been designed to bolster the case for strikes against the Nusra Front, after a public debate that had, until then, focused only on the Islamic State.

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