Key U.S. senators strongly criticize Obama’s Syria policy

Key U.S. senators strongly criticize Obama’s Syria policy | Reuters.

Let’s be clear, what’s happening in #Syria at this stage is GENOCIDE. Only by successfully carrying out a genocidal venture in the Western parts of Syria can #Assad hope to survive. He knew it from the get-go and acted accordingly. The fact that regional powers and Al-Qaeda are taking advantage of this situation transforming it into a regional conflict does not change the genocidal reality.

Zakaria: The Saudis Are Mad? Tough!

Zakaria: The Saudis Are Mad? Tough! – TIME.

Every criticism of Saudi foreign policy that Zakaria makes in this piece is correct, but there are few convenient lies of omission all of which pertain to America being a main partner, enabler and a beneficiary of Saudi Wahhabi adventurism. So, basically Zakaria is simply airing some dirty laundry in what promises to be a messy divorce. But to say that there will no strategic implications to this divorce is to ignore the very facts Zakaria marshaled in order to justify it, namely that Saudi, like Iran, America’s new paramour, sponsors global terror networks, and history tells us that she tends to be quite vindictive. Now, and as it courts another Middle Eastern vixen, the US may only see the negative side of Saudi terror, as it hopes to benefit from the Iranian one. Some would say this is good for the US, and is indeed the stuff of real-politick. But the times, they are a-changing, and when this thing backfires, as it always does, I doubt the aftermath will be as containable as the Brat Pack of America’s New Isolationism seem to think.

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فيسبوك: 31 تشرين الأول، 2013

* بعد عصر التفاؤل والصلف والفرص الضائعة، يأتي عصر الفوضى، هذه الفوضى التي يريدها البعض خلّاقة لتحقيق بعض المصالح، في حين لا فرق عند البعض الآخر أي نوع من الفوضى تكون طالما لم يكن لهم منها نصيب. لكن، وعلى الرغم من كل آلامه، يجلب عصر الفوضى معه أيضاً فرصاً حقيقية للزرع والبِذار، إنه عصر الكادحين بحقّ، وإن تكاثر الانتهازيون فيه كالجراد.

* يثبت التاريخ أن البشر اقتدوا بيهوذا وبلاطيوس وقابيل أكثر مما اقتدوا بالأنبياء والمخلّصين المزعومين، وذلك لأن المواقف المسندة لهؤلاء هي أقرب لما يمكن أن ينبع من إنسانيتنا المشتركة من تلك المسندة إلى الأنبياء والقديسين. إذ لا يمكننا كبشر الاقتداء فعلياً بمن هم منزّهين عن الخطأ ومعصومين عنه. لذا، على من أراد الاقتداء بأي من الأنبياء أو الشخصيات أن يحدّد أولاً زلّاته وعثراته ويتقبّل أنه كان خطّاءاً، عندها فقط سيكون بوسعه أن يتعلّم من صوابه، ويقتدي به.

Syria footage sheds light on Iran’s involvement

BBC News – Syria footage sheds light on Iran’s involvement.

The story of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer, Ismail Haidari, first reported by a German television station, is now retold and completed by BBC. It highlights the extant of Iran’s involvement in Syria. Considering US silence on this matter, and its current rapprochement with the Mulla regime, it seems clear now that the Obama Administration is offering Syria to Iran in exchange for her cooperation on her nuclear program, or, more likely, a convincing enough show of cooperation, so that President Obama can claim another one of his make-believe victories. After all, as a make-believe president, that’s the best that he could do.