Somehow this has to be bad and Obama’s fault. But in the rest of the world, this is a Big Fucking Deal: [Read more…]
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Somehow this has to be bad and Obama’s fault. But in the rest of the world, this is a Big Fucking Deal: [Read more…]
Last night America sat, breathless, waiting for the opinion and ideas of the most important man in the Syrian debate: a half-term junior Senator from Kentucky. Yes, Rand Paul was chosen to give the response to Obama’s address and it was a snoozer-doozy of implied conspiracy and alliances with terrorist. Check out his opener: [Read more…]
Pity the poor dominionists. Today they not only got the air let out of their tires as the US scored the biggest political victory over rogue regimes since Qaddafi was lynched, it may have postponed the End Times to boot! At least according to Fox New and their special pal: [Read more…]
Update 2: Syria just announced they will sign the agreement and join the chemical weapons ban treaty. It’s all over but the details now folks. Call it eleventy-billion dimensional chess or dumb luck, but Obama just scored the biggest foreign policy victory since Geronimo was shot in the head by acting tough while Teaparty Republicans joined liberal wimps.
Update: Senate is said to be drafting new authorization proposal tailored to latest developments that has bipartisan support.
Yesterday events moved fast as Russian diplomats announced the outlines of a possible deal to store and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, a move which would avert a US military strike. This evening President Obama will make his case before the American people, tea leaves say the WH will not waiver in the need to brandish a credible military threat to encourage Syria to comply. Early this morning US time, Syria appeared to accept the proposal in principle. All well and good, every one is happy! Except of course … the right is facing a huge problem: America may have prevailed and the world may end up a tiny bit safer without the US having to fire a single shot. First overnight developments: [Read more…]
It could be a feint, it could be a delaying tactic, or Syria may have just blinked. Apparently Russia has been talking to their buddy Assad and dangled a non bombing alternative. Here’s the gistt: [Read more…]
The game plan on Syria seems to coalescing on getting something passed in the Senate, then bombs way. To encourage Senate Democrats to that end, sources sympathetic to striking Syria have begun concern trolling the notion that failure to approve a resolution will have dire consequences. Which is silly for two big reasons: [Read more…]
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Whatever lingering respect I may have had for John McCain is surely gone now. Not that there was much left after he tried to foist Sarah Palin on us in 2008. In the video above McCain gets a dose of what his constituents think about Syria. So far so good. But being the craven political vulture he has become, he tried to recover by joining the ‘peachers: [Read more…]
It could happen today, or Assad might delay this push and buy another month or three. But the Arab Spring that began in Tunisia and swept through Egypt and Libya is now on the doorstep of the Syrian capital (Building raw link base below). There are conflicting reports, some saying the final battle for Damascus may have already begun, others unclear: [Read more…]
Video surfacing, events may move quickly this evening/week
The Assad regime may be near the long bloody end of its corrupt reign. Fighting between what’s left of government forces and a growing army of rebels has reportedly now broken out in the capital, Damascus: [Read more…]
