Updated 9/17/2014:
Apparently the "Syrian moderates" have decided they'd rather not have any US weapons after all:
Further evidence of how, although the Bush administration's heedless mayhem is the immediate cause of the ongoing Mesopotamian civil war, the war itself is not about the United States. Even-the-Neoliberal Thomas P. Friedman, better known as Thomas L. Friedman, Mystax Orientalis, is urging caution along these lines:
Update September 17:
The Free Syrian Army is very strongly denying that there is any such truce as that reported by AFP last week.
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| Aleppo, late August. Photo by AFP/AMC/Zein Rifai via the Daily Star. |
Apparently the "Syrian moderates" have decided they'd rather not have any US weapons after all:
The rebel signers include the US-backed Syrian Revolutionary Front, according to sources cited by Charles Lister. Meanwhile, their new friends of the "Islamic State" have carried out their threats of a third video beheading, of British aid worker David Haines. I don't see how Obama can expect Congress to give the Sunni "moderates" half a billion dollars to sell more arms and hostages to the Caliphate. Nor do I see how he can go beyond the de facto alliance with Iran to a practical alliance with Iran's vile butcher client Bashar al-Assad.Syrian rebels and jihadists from the Islamic State have agreed a non-aggression pact for the first time in a suburb of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group said on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the ceasefire deal was agreed between IS and moderate and Islamist rebels in Hajar al-Aswad, south of the capital.Under the deal, "the two parties will respect a truce until a final solution is found and they promise not to attack each other because they consider the principal enemy to be the Nussayri regime."Nussayri is a pejorative term for the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs. (Daily Star/AFP)
Further evidence of how, although the Bush administration's heedless mayhem is the immediate cause of the ongoing Mesopotamian civil war, the war itself is not about the United States. Even-the-Neoliberal Thomas P. Friedman, better known as Thomas L. Friedman, Mystax Orientalis, is urging caution along these lines:
We keep making this story about us, about Obama, about what we do. But it is not about us. It is about them and who they want to be.As for biblical-political science guru David Brooks, urging Obama to be more incautious because it's what Moses would have done, and his sentimental-fascist view that it's all about the US and Obama the unheroic failure to be a true Duce—
This is the sternest test of Obama’s leadership skills since the early crises of his presidency. If he sticks to this self-assigned duty, and pursues it doggedly, he can be a successful reluctant leader. Sometimes the hardest victories are against yourself.—fuck him. Really. He's nothing but William Kristol, only an order of magnitude more weaselly.
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| Actually any weasel is far more attractive and socially acceptable. Mustela erminea, Unimak Island, Alaska. |
The Free Syrian Army is very strongly denying that there is any such truce as that reported by AFP last week.
