The Syrian city of al-Bab is not very large. It's not very pretty. It's not particularly noteworthy in any way, but one - it happens to be strategically located in late 2016.
Ishaan Tharoor has a piece in WaPo today: ISIS wants to fight a holy war. So do some Trump supporters.
The "rebels" in Syria, fighting to overthrow Assad, with much help from the U.S., have long been fighting alongside an Al-Quaida affiliate called the Al Nusra Front. Last July, they formally cut their ties with Al Quaida (SPLITTERS!) in a move designed to enhance their legitimacy as freedom fighters in Syria.
Two days ago, that all changed. Coinciding, oddly, with Trump's visit to the White House.
My local paper ran an opinion piece by Charles Krauthammer on Sunday. It was called My vote, explained and you can read it here if you're interested. -> Washington Post If you've ever read his stuff you know that Krauthammer is a Neocon for sure and as crazy as any of them. There's never been a war of choice he couldn't get behind and, although he says he won't vote for Hillary I'm sure he'd support her vision of an exceptional America raining death and destruction across the Middle East and elsewhere. Mr. Krauthammer is also, apparently, an imbecile.
This guy is spitting truth and putting together reports, congressional hearing details and what's going on in the ME and how it relates to CIA policy dating back to WWII. I'm really just not seeing this on any other outlet, aside from essays here and over at TOP written by those more informed than me.
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I said a few months ago that A vote for Hillary is a vote for war in Syria. I based this on the statements of virtually all her advisors.
I'm going to post this on Orange State just to get a reaction.
One thing all liberals can agree on is that the Syrian Kurds are the good guys, and the jihadist terrorists in Syria are the bad guys.
So when Turkey and their jihadist allies launched a full-scale assault on our Syrian Kurdish allies, you would think that Washington would be outraged.
You may not know that Syria isn't all about Russia! Russia! Russia!
For instance, the pro-regime change Syrian Network for Human Rights had something interesting to say today.
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Last night I watched Kerry spew off lie after lie about the situation in Aleppo in a press conference. I am having trouble finding the entire press conference video (it was on twitter last night) without spin.
A group calling themselves the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) has written a "memo" to Empire in Chief Obama, just like they did to war criminal George W. Bush in the earlier part of the century.
