The next stage in the Syrian War?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 1:27pmThe U.S. is building yet another military base in Syria, and it just happens to be in middle of Syria's biggest oil field.
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When is 500 greater than 40,000? Syrian Math Redux
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 10:51pmThe difference in the news media coverage of East Ghouta versus Afrin looks a whole lot like Aleppo versus Mosul.
Do you remember the rhetoric about Aleppo and Russia?
General Clark: U.S. ground troops are now “prepared to die for the Jewish state”
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 3:35pmA Kuwaiti newspaper made a dramatic claim over the weekend that got zero attention in the U.S. media.
A catastrophe in Syria's Afrin
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 03/10/2018 - 3:49pmTurkey's military operation with the Orwellian name of "Olive Branch" has reached the outskirts of the city of Afrin, and has taken 850 kilometres of the province.
The Fog Of War
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/08/2018 - 5:15pmBack in December Vice President Mike Pence went to Afghanistan and announced "real progress" is being made. A few months earlier Trump told everyone "great progress is being made.”
Oh crap!
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 03/06/2018 - 10:34pmYou had to know that at some point, Trump was going to want a war named after him.
U.S. Army: Russia defeated U.S. in Syria
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:02pmAnyone who has ever studied the Vietnam War knows that military victories and political victories are two different things. The U.S. Army is aware of that lesson.
Near East Folie a Trois featuring Syria, Turkey and Kurds--soon to be full-on international war
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 02/21/2018 - 9:12pmOnce upon a time, there was relative peace in the NE (near east, which is a more precise location name for the Levant and nearby areas) despite simmering resentments and hatreds. Along came crypto-Muslim B. Hussein, who liked to play with matches, many of them thoughtfully lit for him by his handmaiden, Hellery. First they thought Africa might be a nice experimental area for their wars of oil, gold, riches beyond belief. Enticed by the victorious battle cry of "We came, we saw, he died.
Just how insane is our Syrian policy?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 11:35pmThe global war on terror has redefined what constitutes failure.
At one time sending kids to die in a generation-long quagmire without end in a narcostate would unquestionably constitute failure.
That is the situation in Afghanistan today, but no one in politics or the news media bothers to point out the obvious.
The bar for foreign policy failure has been lowered to a back-breaking limbo champion level.
That didn't take long
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 10:07amYesterday I pointed out that the Syrian government is coming to the assistance of the Syrian Kurds in the Afrin canton, who are under attack from Turkey.
This is how it went today.
