(4 PM – promoted by TheMomCat)
Bernhard at MoonofAlabama remains a continual flow of common sense with respect to US foreign policy, strangely similar to Herr Daniel Larison, in some ways. I really don’t care about their conservative or liberal affiliations and credentials. They both sound right to me on most occasions.
Apparent jackass, Laura Rozen had this to say of MoA’s analysis of Syria:
Laura Rozen ?@lrozen
look moon you wld like nothing better than russia & iran & china architects of global order. “@MoonofA:
To which billmon sed:
billmon ?@billmon1
@MoonofA @lrozen Scratch a “liberal” interventionist, find Joe McCarthy hiding underneath.
Sure enough. I’m still looking at you, driftglass, even tho’ you disavowed intervention in Syria, I am still looking at you. And booman, yeppers. I’m looking at you both with one eye.
You are the people for whom the term, “cruise missile liberals,” was invented. You and John Kerry…and the Muslim Kenyan Usurper Hawaiian Devil Baby, Barack Obama.
Instead I’d suggest trying Living in Truth:
Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth:
(The power of living in truth) does not reside in the strength of definable political or social groups, but chiefly in a potential, which is hidden throughout the whole of society, including the official power structures of that society. Therefore this power does not rely on soldiers of its own, but on soldiers of the enemy as it were-that is to say, on everyone who is living within the lie and who may be struck at any moment (in theory, at least) by the force of truth (or who, out of an instinctive desire to protect their position, may at least adapt to that force). It is a bacteriological weapon, so to speak, utilized when conditions are ripe by a single civilian to disarm an entire division…. This, too, is why the regime prosecutes, almost as a reflex action, preventatively, even modest attempts to live in truth (p.23).
forgive me for not providing links. I’m very, prohibitively tired and time-constrained, wishing you all the best.
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These men & women are not cheering.
Only conspiracy theorists would not cheer, of course. Of course. And obama haters, of course. Of course.
Read all of it here…
more research since I posted my diary the other day and I’ve found some interesting stuff. The “stuff” is as applicable here as would be on my diary, “I have a terrible lump in my throat!” Some of it, I cannot vouch for the veracity of the content; some have dates going back to 2011, 2012, leaving me to wonder which came first the chicken . . . as to the buildup of warships off the Syrian coast, or did some come and then go . . . and then return again? I know a couple were replaced in August, as spelled out here. What I know from warships is nothing, much less remember their names. The first article, though, deals with the chemicals and who used them.
Syrian rebels admit to being behind chemical weapons attack. August 30, 2013
Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syrian waters. Published time: November 25, 2011 14:34
17 US warships now off Syria 6 December 2012, 1:15
Potential War Against Syria: Chemical Weapons, Russian Warships and Terrorists December 07, 2012
Russian warships dock at Syria’s port of Tartus January 8, 2012
Russia sending two warships to Syrian coast: Report Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:4AM
U.S. warships off Syrian coast are part of ‘options for all contingencies’ August 25, 2013
Say hello, Assad: See the Navy warships off the coast of Syria! (No date on this .. .I presume recent)
Of course, there is much more, but the hype and the build-up, as in Iraq, has been going on for some time now and a lot of it.
Finally, here’s an excellent article by William Rivers Pitt, “It’s Not War, So Stop Saying That. Thursday, 05 September 2013 09:05 Truthout