Dr. Assad Meet Dr. Mengele
In more proof, if any were needed, that liberals are the reactionaries of our time, it was only weeks ago that Hillary Clinton was calling Bashar al-Assad a “reformer” and Vogue magazine was proclaiming his wife a “rose in the desert.”
As we know, and the horrific videos from Syria on PJM show conclusively (they look like living versions of Goya’s The Third of May ), the ophthalmologist is as much a reformer as Josef Mengele and Asma as much a rose as Eva Braun.
Since his father Hafez brutally imposed his will over Syria in the Hama massacre, the Assads have been a family of secular fascist torturers and murderers in league with religious fascist torturers and murders in Lebanon (Hezbollah), Gaza (Hamas), and Iran (the mullahs), not to mention North Korea (also secular). They assassinate democratically elected foreign leaders (Hariri), encourage and facilitate global terrorism, and shoot as many of their own people as necessary to maintain power while exploiting the best of their country’s resources for personal gain. In other words, pure evil.
Nothing new there — yet, for some reason, our liberal leadership and their media allies were never able to acknowledge fully something so obvious. Always — as Obama did with Ahmadinejad while the Iranian democracy demonstrators were being shot in their streets and tortured in prison cells — they sought to reason with despotism. Or, more likely, pretended to do so because it was all game for the aggrandizement of the self, for image. The policy itself never made sense.
When the Middle East street started to rebel, our government had no plan. They didn’t know what to do about Egypt and then went into Libya willy-nilly when things started to look bad. So now we are left with the odd situation where Gaddafi — clearly also a murderous sociopathic dictator — is despot number one, with NATO intervening and the U.S. providing Predators, while Assad, demonstrably a much more active and dangerous enemy of the U.S. and its allies, is merely verbally chastised by our president and secretary of State.
Something wrong here?
Killing civilians is now wrong?
That’s not what the right has been telling us.
Oh. “The right.”
Hearing ‘voices’?
What is the ‘right’ telling you?
The Right has been telling me for years that reports of civilian deaths are always exaggerated and I should pay no attention to them.
I don’t recall getting that information from “the right”.
I did, however, read of hugely exaggerated numbers of civilian deaths in Iraq as a function of some ridiculous Johns Hopkins survey that was turned into “science” when it appeared in the Lancet under far left editor Richard Horton.
It was pretty much an abomination and a tear down of that journal’s scientific credibility.
Dear blackball,
I firmly believe that you won’t call Socialists/Communists/Bolsheviks/Trotskyists/Maoists etc. “the right”, will you?
Since in this world we all have only the “right” and “left” sides (let alone for a while the “top” and “Bottom”), you have to call all the mentioned movements “the Left,” right?
And you’ll definitely be right: all Socialists call themselves “the Left.”
So, how about DOZENS OF MILLIONS OF CIVILIANS murdered by the Left only because those murdered people were not of “Proletariat descent” or just didn’t want to support the Left?
Did the Left ever say that “Killing civilians is wrong”?
Oh, you probably want some proof?
Here it is:
http://wn.com/List_of_Gulag_camps
List of Gulag camps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gulag_camps
Public executions of civilians in young Soviet Russia:
http://www.gulag.ipvnews.org/
“The Soviet Story” Movie: http://www.sovietstory.com/about-the-film/
Left-Wing Bloodbaths: http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left.html.
May I ask you something?
Please, please, I beseech on my knees: NEVER, NEVER tell me or anybody else how tender, soft, downy and fluffy the Left are…
That the Left postures as though it is on the side of social justice,
but it is on the side of the greatest and most pernicious violators of
social justice. And its hands are drenched in human blood in terms of
the mass murdering ideologies and regimes it has supported and aided and
abetted.
~Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror
“Social justice” is nothing but a product of diarrhea the Left are experiencing when pretending that they are smarter that the rest of us.
The Left puts the word “justice” in everything, places you couldn’t imagine it going, from climate to food.
Since language is only used for purposes of manipulation, they must figure sticking in that word gives them a patina of morality.
Evan Sayet: Social Justice and the Modern Liberal
We figured whacking civilians must be o.k. after you warm and fuzzy liberals firebombed Tokyo and nuked Hiroshima.
I can’t help but notice that several posters are attempting to paint Hitler as a right winger. Even going so far as to say that the Tea Party has ties to Hitler. So I feel compelled to point out some historic facts here.
The Nazi’s were in fact “left wing” in every sense of the word. Did they kill off liberals, you bet, leftist HATE competition. They believed THEIR form of left wing government is the correct one. The minor difference between a Fascist and a Socialist can be illustrated like this:
They both believe in the state controlling the means of production, of that there can be no dissent. The Socialist believe in direct ownership while the fascist controlled the business owner to control the means of production. Hitler told the owners of the Krupp Iron works what they were going to build and how many and what the government would pay. Much as Obama has done with GM. The government also provided slave labor from overrun nations as well when needed. Stalin merely eliminated the middle man, as Hitler intended to do in the end if you read his insane writings.
Neither are right wing or Capitalist ways of doing things.
I wish to point out that in the strictest sense Nazi (National Socialist – a blend of Socialism and Totalitarianism which is why people sometimes confuse it with Fascism) political philosophy is Socialist. However it is not the same as saying that all Socialism is Nazism. Far from it. One can be both, but only if one is a Nazi.
So here is a Hitler quote for you leftists out there trying so very hard to paint him as a ‘right-winger’ which CLEARLY illustrates that he was a socialist. In this quote Hitler points out that he is a follower of true socialism.
“Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true Socialism is not.” – Hitler, 1930
Now curiously, not only was Hitler (exterminated 12-17 million) a leftist but the only other two figures in history to have killed more people than Hitler were also leftists:
Joseph Stalin – in 1917 he is responsible for approximately 20 million deaths, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political “offenses”. At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the ‘Gulag Archipelago’ never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the ‘Gulag’.
Mao Zedong – in 1959 his socialist government through his ‘great leap forward’ caused “the worst famine in the history of mankind” in which an estimated 43 million died.
And let us not forget Margaret Sanger’s influence in history and in the democrat party still to this day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger). She was the founder of Planned Parenthood. She believed in eugenics – the practice of selectively breeding in order to develop a ‘superior race’ (sounds sort of Hitleresque eh?).
“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.” Margaret Sanger. ‘The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.’ Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
Planned Parenthood does their part to kill roughly 203,991 blacks per year in the US (this is a rough figure from the CDC on the LOW side because only 36 states compile abortion data per race) or about 36% of all pregnancies of black women end in abortion. Or to view this another way, abortion kills more blacks each year than the 7 leading causes of death in blacks (heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases) combined (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55956).
It’s not enough that leftists want to enslave our population through poverty (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/72404), but they would even like to exterminate those that they deem ‘less desirable’ in order to make room for their vision of a ‘superior race’.
Genocide and slavery is the real ‘compassion’ of the leftists.
Leftism in fact is responsible for killing more people in the 20th century than had been killed in all wars on Earth before 1900 combined.
I find it amazing that people still associate with leftists at all quite frankly…just look at their record.
I can’t help but notice that leftist posters often attempt to paint Hitler and other monsters of history as ‘right wingers’. Even going so far as to say that the Tea Party has ties to Hitler (or similar hate-groups) and racism. So I feel compelled to point out some historic facts here.
The Nazi’s were in fact “left wing” in every sense of the word. Did they kill off liberals, you bet, leftist HATE competition. They believed THEIR form of left wing government is the correct one. The minor difference between a Fascist and a Socialist can be illustrated like this:
They both believe in the state controlling the means of production, of that there can be no dissent. The Socialist believe in direct ownership while the fascist controlled the business owner to control the means of production. Hitler told the owners of the Krupp Iron works what they were going to build and how many and what the government would pay. Much as Obama has done with GM. The government also provided slave labor from overrun nations as well when needed. Stalin merely eliminated the middle man, as Hitler intended to do in the end if you read his insane writings.
Neither are right wing or Capitalist ways of doing things.
I wish to point out that in the strictest sense Nazi (National Socialist – a blend of Socialism and Totalitarianism which is why people sometimes confuse it with Fascism) political philosophy is Socialist. However it is not the same as saying that all Socialism is Nazism. Far from it. One can be both, but only if one is a Nazi.
So here is a Hitler quote for you leftists out there trying so very hard to paint him as a ‘right-winger’ which CLEARLY illustrates that he was a socialist. In this quote Hitler points out that he is a follower of true socialism.
“Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true Socialism is not.” – Hitler, 1930
Now curiously, not only was Hitler (exterminated 12-17 million) a leftist but the only other two figures in history to have killed more people than Hitler were also leftists:
Joseph Stalin – in 1917 he is responsible for approximately 20 million deaths, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political “offenses”. At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the ‘Gulag Archipelago’ never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the ‘Gulag’.
Mao Zedong – in 1959 his socialist government through his ‘great leap forward’ caused “the worst famine in the history of mankind” in which an estimated 43 million died.
And let us not forget Margaret Sanger’s influence in history and in the democrat party still to this day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger). She was the founder of Planned Parenthood. She believed in eugenics – the practice of selectively breeding in order to develop a ‘superior race’ (sounds sort of Hitleresque eh?).
“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.” Margaret Sanger. ‘The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.’ Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
Planned Parenthood does their part to kill roughly 203,991 blacks per year in the US (this is a rough figure from the CDC on the LOW side because only 36 states compile abortion data per race) or about 36% of all pregnancies of black women end in abortion. Or to view this another way, abortion kills more blacks each year than the 7 leading causes of death in blacks (heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases) combined (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55956).
It’s not enough that leftists want to enslave our population through poverty (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/72404), but they would even like to exterminate those that they deem ‘less desirable’ in order to make room for their vision of a ‘superior race’.
Genocide and slavery is the real ‘compassion’ of the leftists.
Leftism in fact is responsible for killing more people in the 20th century than had been killed in all wars on Earth before 1900 combined.
I find it amazing that people still associate with leftists at all quite frankly…just look at their record.
Roger who knows how these revolts in the Arab countries will turn out. I do not advocate supporting the current dictators just because to use a phrase from the 30′s they maybe SOB’s but they are SOB’s. Let the Arabs have their moment, maybe it will turn out alright (although I doubt it). Frankly there is nothing we can really do and to the extent we get involved it will backfire on us. Somethings just have to play themselves out. However let us not be under any illusions that if these revolts succeed and do actually turn to be out more or less democratic that they won’t be anti-American and with out a doubt anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli. They most definitely will be. However that doesn’t mean that we have to favor them or aid them. They can sink or swim on their own. We owe them nothing. Wish them success as we would any democratic movement but make it clear we are only interested in our national interest and as long as their coincides with ours, fine but if not, too bad.
Roger back in 1980 when Mengele was still alive and in Porto Alegre Brazil I remember getting off the Varig flight from Miami and this beautiful yellow-blonde, blue eyed nordic beauty asking me “Herr ……. sprach Deutsch?” The hair on the back of neck stood up. The point is they will hate Jews (the Arabs and the Europeans) for a long, long time (and Americans as well but especially Jews and Israel). its in their nature. And they are not going to change. The best that can be hoped for is a cold peace between them (Arabs) and Israel. As for the US, the sooner we start drilling for our own oil, the better. Ultimately the Arabs need us more than we need them, they can’t drink oil and food represents what they don’t have: water and we have more than anyone else as represented by food. Its time for America to once again act in her national interest. As TR said “talk softly and carry a big stick”.
Somehow connecting anti-Semitism to the entire nation of Brazil by having a German phrase uttered at you on debarking a Varig flight in 1980 may seem like that thrilling epiphany where all the lights come on to you but to me it lacks merit.
Blue-eyed blonds in Brazil who speak German are as rare as pangolins and in any event, tend not to embody the zeitgeist of that nation by way of decontextualized or random acts.
Recommended archetype in its stead: reality.
Thank you.
PS. If I spooked that easily I’d be living at the center of the Earth with Abner Perry.
I agree its time america started looking out for america BUT. that aint gonna happen as long as the current regime is in controll. lets dace it peopl we have the sorriest excuse for a president in the history of the world,
Hard to see what the down side would be in getting rid of Assad in Syria. It would also be hard to see how somebody WORSE than Assad could take over. Assad is already supplying weapons to terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, Assad is a close ally of Iran and has actively helped Iran kill American troops in Iraq, and Assad has done everything in his power to destabilize Lebanon (if not try to take over the country as well). Oh, and lets not forget Syria even tried to make a nuclear bomb with the help of North Korea. Even if a mullah took over in Syria, it would be hard to see how much worse it could really get.
Maybe we should put a little faith in the Syrian people. After generations under the hateful grip of the Assad family, maybe they want a change. Even if they manage to overthrow Assad and a general takes over, a guy like that has to be better than what we have now, which is a psychotic killer willing to do anything to cling to power. If Obama and Clinton were smart (which they certainly are NOT when it comes to foreign affairs), they would let this rebellion play out and give as much support as possible to the people who want to overthrow Assad. Syria will never become a model of Jeffersonian Democracy, but a pro-western dictator in that country would suit us just fine right now if that’s all that we can get.
The Vogue article reminded me of this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/graphic/0,,1075414,00.html
Some things never change.
Roger: read Barry Rubin’s book, The Truth About Syria. You will see that while the Obama admin has brought our appeasement of Syria to new depths, Obama’s predecessors also gave Assad father and/or son plenty of leeway to crack down at home and promote terror abroad in exchange for periodic paltry assistance or even no help at all.
I am very aware.
I hope you are also aware, Roger, of how both Bush and Obama Administrations train and fund Pal terrorists called ‘security forces’ who yesterday shot and killed the young man, nephew of an Israeli minister, at Joseph’s Tomb.
Assad is a mass killer/murderer. I still hope, though, after Egypt and Libya, that you and others would temper your enthusiasm for the Arab revolutions. It’s quite possible that the regime that comes next will be as bad, and help create conditions for an Arab-Israeli war – at which point it will be simply up to the Egyptians to decide where they fall.
I second the recommendation of reading Barry Rubin’s book on Syria. Let me also advise that Professor Rubin has some excellent articles on Syria at The Rubin Report.
I wish I could have faith in the Syrian people. I see them bravely risking their lives against the tyrant Assad and I feel such admiration. But! I fear that the Syrians, like most of the Arabs, have been brainwashed since childhood to irrationally hate Jews and Israel. I don’t know if it is possible to rid oneself of that kind of tyranny. (?)
Obama, the first president that people refer to as your president.
Will the next round anti Americanism be for inaction? Betrayal? Will one pseudo intellectual Marxist bastard undo the free Western world and its leader, the United States of America? Will one street corner hustler that hit the big time be its demise? Get rid of this traitor as soon as possible.
As I said on these pages over a year ago, Assad and Ahmadinejad were a problem solved with a few well placed cruise missiles. No long term involvement, no boots on the ground, no causalities, no financial strain, just gain. I guess it was a choice of choosing the butcher you know than the one you don’t, and, no worries, if you amortize the lives lost over a long enough period of time it really doesn’t look that bad.
Sorry, first two paragraphs from another post.
Glass, the last person we want to kill, at this point in time, is Ahmadinejad. He is worth a fortune in counter-propaganda. The guy is an idiot. If he were smart he would hide his evil intentions, instead he screams it to the world. Most criminals do not boast of the crimes they plan to commit, Ahmadinejad does. I would not be surprised if he draws a check from the Israeli Counter-Propaganda Corps (OK I know the ICPC probably does not exist but it should). He is a living reminder why Iran cannot be allowed to have the bomb. (note: the genius Obama has already decided we can live with an Iranian bomb.)
Bob,
“Most criminals do not boast of the crimes they plan to commit, Ahmadinejad does.”
True, most criminals dont, but Muslims unique criminals. They have been boasting of the crimes they intend to commit since Mohammed was raping and beheading everything in sight.
All anyone has to do is listen to thier “sermons”, their rules, their requirements of the “faithful” to see what they are about. They make no secret about it. Its nothing that ISNT regularly demonstrated by them.
They hide it in plain sight. Like a boorish, obnoxious and drunken dinner guest, they put the obligation on the HOST to call out their behavior, to start the confrontation, to risk “ruining the party” by digging in their heels and saying “yes, you did” to their “No, thats not what I said”
Most Hosts end up apologising (under their breath)to the rest of the group for the actions of the resident thug, rather than confronting him.
Hopefully, they think, it will run its course, and fade away.
Let it go.
Dont set him off.
Dont make it worse.
They use our superior standard of human behavior against us.
And we let them.
The newest time was signed with the capitalist horror.This horror was often identified with Jews.The Arab rulers and the nazies where the curious enamoured pair in spite of the racial theory.The old World have been ready to fight!Today we see the ridiculouse “liberals” becoming antiquated in their efforts to replace the nazies in their love and friendship with the Arab Islamists.
The free World have nothing but defeat this “new” old pink trouble with its green infection
What will it take for the U.S. Government to penalize the ASSad regime? Why is our ambassador still there? Why don’t we use OUR MILITARY to protect the Syrian dissidents? The Obama Administration has its own goofy agenda where they want the Iranian, Syrian, Bahraini and Saudi regimes still in power. Why? Who the hell knows? FREE SYRIA! FREE IRAN! FREE BAHRAIN! FREE SAUDIA!
Maybe we are doing something.
Most of the good stuff in the ME is covert anyway. Iranians today reporting that they found another virus ‘Star’ and pretty much admitted that Stuxnet is still around.
Hopefully we were prepared enough to get together a list of important cell phone numbers among the Syrian General staff. If not i’m sure the Israelis have one.
Not the cell phone numbers, but the iPhones, iPads, Facebook, bank accounts and health club membership info. The four-day memberships at Damascus Abs & Human (skull) Crunches are really worth it, I hear. Plus the bathrooms are clean and they have nargilas in the saunas.
“The downfall of Assad would mean big trouble for the mullahs, Hezbollah, and Hamas — good things for the region and the world.”
One would have to conclude, by this administrations actions, that they do not want the downfall of the mullahs. If they did, they would act differently, connect the dots.
Look at the philosophies of the people that Obama has appointed to high positions in the government, and then tell me that they do not suffer from a parallel mindset, to the despots of the world.
We have a President who defies the orders of federal courts, and works to end run the courts, Congress, and the Constitution. Do you think we are in big trouble?
Roger? Is there a suggestion for a way forward in your post? The sanctions you mentioned, can you delineate just where they have been successful? At best they are a statement of concern. Also, our allies always cheat, you know secret deals and alike. Diplomacy with a despot is effective when his country can be taken away from him and he killed. Obama has come face to face with Lincoln’s admonishment,”One war at a time.” But, of course, he has never the less involved us militarily in yet another Muslim country, this time without national security needs. What to do I haven’t a clue and I suspect neither does anyone else.
So your are trying to say that the previous Republican governments did not support Assad ? Wasn’t there foreign policy “ad hoc”. Your article would be more credible if it weren’t so obviously biased
I certainly agree with you Madhavi. Previous Republican administrations were bad on Syria too. It’s time for a change, no?
…. the ophthalmologist is as much a reformer as was Josef Mengele and Asma as much a rose, as was Eva Braun ….
Would that be Mrs Hitler, the original — or the affable one of morning TV?
While Speaker in 2007, Nancy Pelosi went over to yak with Assad. He told her he was ready to negotiate “peace” with Israel and she seemed to fall for it.
I recall a picture of Pelosi all dolled up in a headscarf meeting Assad.
I don’t see that fashionable shoe lover Asma Assad “covering” herself when out and about in the world.
Diane Sawyer was all scarfed up (rhymes with barfed up) when she did her “exclusive” with Ahmadinejhad in Tehran. (A’jad seemed to be toying with her throughout that interview)
The more credibility we give these tyrants, the more delighted and determined they become.
There is an old ethnic joke about a polite Irishman who happens upon two men fighting in the street. “Is this a private quarrel,” inquires the Irishman, “or may anyone join?”
I have no objection to broadcasting Baby Assad’s crimes as loudly and widely as possible. But his removal by American interference is absent a compelling American national interest.
Assad and company are today’s Syrian thugs. The protesters in the street are yesterday’s or tomorrow’s. The notion of an “Arab Spring” is fanciful.
The old Oriental tyrannies are experiencing a collision with modernity. The Syrian government and military have long enjoyed a huge advantage in modern communications and weaponry with which to control their masses. Now the mob they fear has gained modern communications technology and the propaganda power, not to mention the strategic command and control opportunities, that go with it.
However, the assumption that a triumph of the mob and the removal of Assad and his regime will benefit the US or mankind is childish and isn’t worth American lives or treasure.
As for the courage of uneducated, unemployed and sexually frustrated Syrian males wilding in the streets and exposing themselves to live fire, spare us, please. PJM ought not be promoting the Muslim culture of martyrdom. Jews don’t believe in heaven or hell and the Heaven Christians believe in isn’t a sensual hog-wallow with a bottomless supply of willing virgins.
In any event, comparing Baby Assad to Josef Mengele is a stretch. Assad is a classic tyrant and lives a cultured life in luxurious circumstances. Mengele was sick freak who volitionally spent his days in a stinking human slaughterhouse, satisfying his sadistic sensual impulses.
Well, aren’t we the pompous one? Many of us see a pretty compelling national interest in getting rid of Assad who has allied with Iran and Hezbollah. Obviously, there are no guarantees for what comes after, but many commentators(not just the host here) see the breakup of this triumvirate as a good. But of course you know better.
Sorry to offend, Nance. I’m not sure I know better but I do know wiser. Not least I know our military and diplomatic limitations under our present commander in chief.
Ask yourself what compelling national interest drove our involvement in Libya. Ask yourself what we have accomplished there to date. We’ve squandered a great deal of sophisticated and costly weapons on a tribal dustup. We’ve killed an unknown but not insubstantial number of poor and backward people. We’ve destroyed a great deal of infrastructure. To what end? To prevent an imagined massacre that “might” have taken place in Benghazi? Is this rational national policymaking?
The Assads honor the letter of agreements they sign. They rolled over for the bombing of their nuclear facilities by the Israelis. They maintain stability among their primitive and savage citizenry.
I’ll trade that status quo easily against a costly roll of the dice on Obama and company to improve things by removing Assad. Our regime here at home has neither the moral vision, competence or fortitude to go changing regimes abroad.
To tanstaafl:
I am very much aware of what the “social justice” mean…
By 1913 the number of the industrial proletariat in my former country, Russia, had increased to 3 million (from 2.1 million in 1900).
Other groups of hired labor force were its allies; their numbers are estimated at 17.4 million.
The total population of Russia (including all subordinated regions) in 1913, the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917, was 174 Million.
Therefore, for the sake of [so-called "social justice" for] 1.72% of the total population of Russia, Bolsheviks have annihilated from 40 to 50 MILLION of non-proletariat and “non-believers-in-Bolshevism.”
I just love such a “social justice”!
Oh, by the way, thanks to that “social justice,” Russian proletariat and peasants were starving and lived in poverty over 70 years, until the Torch of the “Social justice” (called the USSR) collapsed.
And I can keep bringing very impressive information and numbers related to the “social justicve” as seen and understood by the Lefties.
They are just mentally and morally impaired people.
I know, I know, they are now jumping to scorch me for these words.
It’s OK. I will meanwhile keep counting the number of aborted babies: in 2010, a baby was aborted every 95 seconds.
Count, it’s not very difficult: the smarty Left pretend they know the math: 364 days in a non-leap year multiply by 24 hours multiply by 60 minutes multiply by 60 second and then divide by 95 seconds, and you’ll get the number of people murdered in the USA only in 2010 by the Left.
They are sooo tender people, those Lefties!
By the way, since the result of the calculation above is so stunning – 331,048.42! – I’ve got an impression (of course, I might be wrong) that the Lefties love the very procedure of making babies more than anything else just because it gives them the “material” for practicing in killing?
Roger, I don’t want to sound paranoid but the last two times I got on to PJM my computer turned itself off. Have you had any complaints from anyone else in this regard?
Asma al-Assad?
(not so far)
“Something wrong here?”
Yeah – Bambi and his minions. >:-(
I served in the U.S. Embassy in Damascus from 2000-2002 as a Foreign Service Officer. Bottom line is that the Assad regime is pure unadulterated evil. What is more they are our mortal enemies. Anyone who suggests otherwise is a complete fool and dishonors the memory of the 200 Marines that were killed by a Syrian plot to bomb the baracks in Beirut back in the Reagan administration. Violent death at the hands of the Syrian people will be too good for the Assad family. Strangely, most Syrians seem to feel very warmly about Americans — a vestige of the great Syrian/Lebanese migration to the United States. Although many seem to fear what may come next in Syria, it can only be as bad as it has been and likely will be considerably better.
“…the Assad regime is pure unadulterated evil…”?
Well, is this the only evil regime on the Earth? Is this the only regime that is “our mortal enemy”?
If I am not mistaken, there are a few more. Also monstrous, also enemies…
Why not to attack all of them? Even not one-by-one, but at once?
Who cares that it will be illegal; that we have no own money for doing that (we have to borrow; maybe, to borrow from those regimes that we are going to overthrow?)…
I am even afraid that we are not much trained to win the wars anymore.
Can anybody remind me what war did we win after the WWII?
Korea? Divided. Vietnam? Oops…
Maybe, we have to count Grenada and Beirut in 1983?
We could win any war any where if we were allowed to prosecute it. Why did we win WWII, we waged war from the coast and headed directly to Berlin in the speediest manner possible. Why did we not win Korea or Vietnam, because we were expressly forbidden to march our troops directly to the enemy capital. The Germans learned this lesson the hard way when politics trumped the sound doctrine of German generals who said Hitler should go right to Moscow. Hitler didn’t listen, and Stalingrad was the eventual outcome, and a major reason the Germans lost on the Western Front. It’s not that we aren’t trained to win; it’s that we are not allowed to.
I am sorry for wrong words choice.
Honestly, I meant exactly that: since WWII, rabid Lefties did not allow us to use the military force in a manner any military force must be used.
I agree with you.
But, on the other hand, didn’t the mad Lefties already deeply affected our young and not young military?
How many of them are already the same rabid Lefties?
The botom line is Islam itself is the greatest threat to the Middle East street and we have been playing a balancing game there since we first supplied technological aid to the Saudi marauders and set them up an oil kingdom. Once the Shah fell, the game changed. We have supported Syria for a long time, as we support and fund many dictators in that region – simply because they were not full fledged theocracies. Even now, Syria is better of under Assad than a Taliban style government. If the Middle East street goes fully fundamentalist – the game’s over. So we have teams all over the middle east right now, working with governments that are brutal, corrupt and horrific. The intelligence community is very divided as to what’s inour best interests. Sure the liberals everywher never met a revolution they didn’t like – rebelling against existing governments is as natural as breathing. But presently Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Yemen, Qatar, UAE and others are still acting as buffers to the greater threat of full on theocracies. A dictator is an ugly thing, but he is very predictable and will always work with those who will protect him or keep him in power. We couldn’t deal with the Taliban and we can’t deal with Iran. When the Middle East street has a nuke in every backyard, Israel will be the first to go and then the whole region is subject to some sort of nightmarish Taliban-esque leadership.
The uprisings we have seen, many of which have anti-western sponsors, have not been offering “democratic” revolutions. None of these folks want their MTV. Many want to be able to stone women, cut off hands, etc.
So we will continue to have US covert ops protect these folks – even as I write these words – because, monsters they may be, but the alternative is even more horrific, not just for the region but for western civilization.
Assad is a tyrant and a butcher…and there are a lot of psychic ties to the regime he just got compared to. I would not mourn his passing at all.
Whether I support the Syrians is the big question however: these Arab revolutions, as already pointed out, are very big gambles for the rest of the world. On one hand, I don’t exactly want to see Islamists toppling Assad and taking over — Assad was at least a self interested butcher; something like al-Queda or similar may not be so; what if there are even closer connections to Iran than what Assad had? On the other hand: a power vacumn would also be very bad. Supporting the protestors might pay huge dividends, but it could also blow up.
This is where I wish we all had better intel and better diplomats…at the very least the idiot Hillary should be publicly called down for calling Assad a “reformer”, possibly make some statement decrying the murder (and from some of the videos that’s exactly what Assad is doing…this is way more in keeping with what has been going on in Iran than Eygpt or Tunisia).
“Nor, for that matter, although it was a much closer call, should we have defended Mubarak. There is no long run benefit defending secular despots.”
Oh, what can I say to you Roger. I think you’re still too much of a dreamy-eyed idealist.
We had to partner with the Soviets to defeat the Nazis. It was a pretty bad thing to do, but we had to.
The choices were and are very hard.
We should have defended the Shah. Look what we got for not doing it — the threat of nuclear war from madmen.
We should have defended — at least verbally — or at least shut up about — Mubarak.
… because Islamist takeovers are not just “unfortunate consequences” they are catastrophic for us.
Mubarak and the Shah weren’t nearly as horrific despots as Assad — if, very unfortunately, we have to look at it that way.
But Egypt was the lynchpin. By letting it go, there’s no doubt it’s going to ignite much more terrible things than anything Mubarak had done. And they will be terrible.
Sometimes the choice is between the bad and the much, much worse — or even the worst — which is what we’re looking at right now.
The new Egypt will align with Iran. The new Egypt is already tipping the scales irrevocably against Israel with its support of Hamas — look at the agreement they fostered today with Hamas and the PA.
Obama is just not as stupid as many want to think — so that they can explain his behavior to themselves. He’s pro-Islamist. There’s no question about it. Everything he’s done proves it, both domestically and internationally, and the only reason it’s not believed is because it’s too horrible to contemplate. But there it is. He takes it to the limit that he thinks he can get away with it. There’s no other explanation for his actions. It will have to be faced at some point — I hope it’s not during his next term in office. If he wins … it’s going to be worse on every level for everyone than we can imagine.
Here is a real Problem, a Genozid in Syria, nobody help them. Rommel is the reason for that desaster. And germany ? Haha, shy, haha, we party, peace ha ha, the genozid doesn’t matter. Same with the Genozid in Ruanda, who caused it ? Leopold (another German) They sit here and let the get killed and tortured. I hate theese germans !