@gjohnsit
succeed with regime change, we can then make it a permanent forward base for the war on Iran.

It looks like our invasion of Syria will be long-term.

US is developing one of its biggest military base in Southern Syria +airstrip surrounded by various smaller outposts https://t.co/LzUOXNGK9S pic.twitter.com/Z8qyGRzIcd

— Already Happened (@M3t4_tr0n) July 8, 2017

The Iraqi army was devastated.

Iraq's special forces leading Mosul offensive have lost 40% of their men in combat; other estimates much higher: https://t.co/iB5XKpnb8I

— Louisa Loveluck (@leloveluck) July 8, 2017

@gjohnsit

betrayal

Ajamu Baraka calls for “a restoration of the commitment to the rule of law on the part of the US authorities" -- a minimal demand that should resonate with all civilized peoples, most especially Black Americans, for whom U.S. law has always been riddled with “exceptionalisms.” However, the Black political (Misleadership) class now takes its cues from the CIA, NSA, FBI and other spook agencies currently allied with the Democratic Party -- the most abject capitulation to evil imaginable.
...Townsend’s forces are laying trip-wires for nuclear war with Russia, whose eminently legal presence in Syria is at the request of that country’s government. That the U.S. has been enabled to invade and occupy a sovereign state “with no domestic opposition" is a testament to the collapse of progressive politics, in general, and the moral debasement of a Black political class that is utterly at odds with its own people’s history. Tethered mouth and foot to the Democratic wing of the rich man’s duopoly, the Black political class has disavowed and defiled the legacies of W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King. They have trashed the sacred essence of the Black Liberation Movement: solidarity with other peoples oppressed by white supremacist capital.
Solidarity has its own value, but it also earns reciprocity. In abandoning solidarity with those oppressed by the United States -- comprising an ever-growing proportion of the world’s people -- Black America sacrifices the moral authority to expect support for our own struggles. We are left alone to fend off the beast, here in its belly.
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These are voices of the Black Radical Tradition, the tradition that has made African Americans the most anti-war constituency in the United States, but which the Black Misleadership Class consistently betrays. For these infinitely self-centered creatures, even the Mother Continent is unworthy of basic human empathy, much less solidarity. No one has been more intimately involved, over a longer period of time, than Susan Rice in the U.S. sanctioned genocide of at least six million Congolese. From 1996, as a national security staffer and Under Secretary of State for African Affairs under Bill Clinton, to the Obama administration, Rice has dutifully facilitated the bloodbath in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the hands of U.S. allies Rwanda and Uganda. Her service on behalf of this genocide, and other slaughters, earned Rice a shot at becoming Obama’s secretary of state, when Hillary Clinton left the job, in 2012.
Six million dead Africans are not worth one Black face in a high State Department place, as far as the hideous Black political class is concerned.
The year before, in 2011, more than half of the Congressional Black Caucus voted to continue the bombing of Libya, which had once been Africa’s most prosperous and generous country.
Only three members of the Black Caucus (and just 5 Democrats) are co-sponsors of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s Stop Arming Terrorists Bill, designed to halt U.S. proxy jihadist wars in Syria and elsewhere in the Muslim world.