Obama: brilliant or stupid

[josephpalazzo]

Things are heating up:

Russia says Turkish airspace violation 'a mistake'

[josephpalazzo]

Putin flexing his muscles:

4 Russian warships launch 26 missiles against ISIS from Caspian Sea

[Baruch]

Go Navy ... doesn't matter which navy ;-)

[josephpalazzo]

Go Navy ... doesn't matter which navy ;-)

Pentagon claims Russian missiles missed the targets. On with the propaganda war.

[SGOS]

Pentagon claims Russian missiles missed the targets. On with the propaganda war.

It's like were living back in the 1940s.  I keep think the internet will make people a little more savvy.  At least more skeptical.  On the other hand, after reading the reader responses to yahoo news articles, that's probably an obvious misperception.

[pr126]

Epic fail: Obama ends $500 million training program for anti-ISIS rebels

[Baruch]

The US wasn't training anyone, other than how to spend taxpayer money like a drunken sailor ... aka McCaine.  We need to let Putin run in the 2016 US Presidential election though ... seriously.

[Baruch]

Pentagon claims Russian missiles missed the targets. On with the propaganda war.

The Pentagon never let out the real Pentagon papers ... just a false flag leak to Ellsberg (patsy or CIA?).  And Deep Throat was the deputy head of the FBI ... internal conflict ... just ignore it and move on.

[SGOS]

We need to let Putin run in the 2016 US Presidential election though ... seriously.

I say we call for a "Draft Putin" movement as a Green Party nomination.  This could make the Green Party more viable, an actual candidate that people have heard of.

[josephpalazzo]

Putin wants to make Russia great again. The US should retaliate by electing Trump, with what's-her-name from Alaska.

[Jason Harvestdancer]

If Russia defeats ISIS in a few weeks, it will really make everything the US has done in the last several years look rather silly.

Actually the problem is the US wanted to defeat both Assad and ISIS and still not conquer Syria.  But you can't have all three.  Russia, on the other hand, just wants to defeat ISIS, and will end up creating a string of allies from doing so.  They will get to keep Syria as an ally, but also get Iraq and Iran.  This will seriously upset all US plans for Middle Eastern hegemony.

[Baruch]

Perhaps American policy is incoherent ... because the elite are still sleeping off all night benders from when they were in frat in Harvard, Yale etc.

I don't believe in phobia as a policy ... including Russo-phobia.  Our love of blood-thirsty Muslims acting as our Gurkhas is a self-defeating measure ... simply because you can't go to the well too many times.  But if one things a policy works one time, politicians tend to mistake it for a panacea.

[josephpalazzo]

Perhaps American policy is incoherent ... because the elite are still sleeping off all night benders from when they were in frat in Harvard, Yale etc.

Naw, that was yesteryears. Today, the elite in Washington is made up of those who are able to raise funds to finance their perpetual campaign. It's makes no difference which frats they went to. And that's why incumbents have no fear of being displaced. After all, the new challengers aren't spending hours after hours a day, every day, raising money almost two years before the next election.