I have read much on why, yet I haven't seen this possibility advanced....

Remember  back 4 years ago, Obama was reeling from a disappointing first term, Romney was giving him fits, it was up for grabs.

Then came Benghazi.

Hillary's emails would most likely not have been an issue, as they had been off the radar screen until, in passing, by chance, in that Benghazi investigation, it was learned of.

Obama's ineptness would have cost him the election, maybe.
But why take a chance.
They scripted that lie, or what we now call, FAKE NEWS.....
To cover his ebony arse.

It fell all on Hillary.
She dug a hole, and had to keep digging, or chance exposure to the truth.
She got saddled with what Obama screwed up.

He has not learned, either, REDLINE my azz....

FACING 'CONSEQUENCES': Obama admin on defense as Aleppo falls  
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/15/obama-administration-on-defense-ov...

I dunno, but it sure fits a lot of the pieces into the puzzle....

Whadda you think?

My two cents' worth.

The Assad Government (calling it a regime, by nations who have more secret intelligence agents than university professors, is hypocrisy)
may be totalitarian, but none more so than some "democratic" governments of the western world in the 1950's.

Actually, the Syrian government, being of secular orientation and of soviet socialist background, is far more democratic than some "champions of the West" republics.

That said, I have access to teh same news channels you have, with the difference I do access those channels.
I am not referring to CNN and FoxNews but to the BBC, Al Jazeera in English, etc.

Way back before the troubles started, a faction of Syrians was demonstrating for renewed elections.
The timeline is easily available for anyone caring to doublecheck their current beliefs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14703995
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syrian-civil-war-timeline...

I will add that under Assad, Saddam Hussein etc. the Christian minorities led a quiet life;
then, after "help to from democracies of the West" they were persecuted, deported, sold into slavery, murdered etc.

Hmmm... so whom should we be thankful for ?

May I remind you that since 2011 US mercenaries went off on field trips to fight against Assad... Southern baptists fighting alongside Islamic extremists ?

Are you aware that the Syrian Army more than once captured US Army, USMC and even Israeli "consultants" in the course of battles with Islamic insurgents?

Do you not realize that this (the presence of foreign consultants advising insurgents) tantamounts to acts of war according to international law ?

And the White House still expects the world to believe "the US are fighting for democracy" ?

This table really says it all !

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I am somehow skeptical...

raydawg wrote on 12/16/16 at 03:03:31:


My wife is a medical doctor and she says the number of infertile Young couples is rising at an alarming rate.

On the other hand, immigration (90% of which illegal) from subsaharan (=Black) Africa is rising, at an average of 150000 (150thousand!) / year arranean and into Italy alone.

I also believe I read of Africans immigrating into America through the Mexican border, although this sounds a lot like a hoax.

Still, the big news is, these people are 100% muslims, and guess which rich oil-producing muslim nations are funding this immigration flux, yet refusing to host even just one in their own countries?

Yup ! Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Emirates... all friends of the White House...  ...

Bashar al Assad grew up as the second born and went to University in London and became a dentist.

At the death of his Father his older Brother was destined to be Head of State.

Unfortunately (for bashar's Brother) things didn't go that way.

Culturally and politically speaking, Syria is much closer to Israel than one might think.

They are both secular and defend women's rights as well as those of cultural and religious minorities.
They are both nations with free health care and educaiton all the way up to College.
They will both issue passports and their citizens are free to roam the world.
All this applied to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, by the way, until he went rogue and invaded Kuwait.
(actually, he was entitled to do so much more than Gen. Austin was entitled to invade Texas, but tghat's another story)

Things went sour when the US invaded Iraq and started pumping Iraqi oil (without paying any of it) and expected to use Syrian pipelines.
Assad said "sure, you'll have to pay "rent".
More than natural, it's business.
GWB didn't want to pay.

No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, no weapons of any kind in Syria, but "someone" still found a way to start a war where no war was required nor wanted by anyone

Things went sour when the US invaded Iraq and started pumping Iraqi oil (without paying any of it) and expected to use Syrian pipelines.
Assad said "sure, you'll have to pay "rent".
More than natural, it's business.
GWB didn't want to pay

Yea, that sounds like bull$hit....

mpescatori wrote on 12/17/16 at 11:10:17:

" ... (actually, he was entitled to do so much more than Gen. Austin was entitled to invade Texas, but tghat's another story)..."

Did not know,  you collected, 'history' books from that time period.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/18/16 at 11:25:43:



Yeah, I'll go along with Jog on this....
I am not saying Pezzy is right, but I see no harm in challenging ones beliefs, even history.

Everyone tells a story with their own perspective, which is ripe with prejudice.
Look at Global warming as a good example.
If you challenge the findings, disagree, etc, you are not allowed to engage, you are minimized, ridiculed, and labeled....
Tell me, how does such behavior lead to understanding if we are afraid to shine the light on our own beliefs?

So, Pezzy, I give you permission, to continue  

You can't rewind the clock dude.....
To compare then, with now, though technically the same, we have progressed against the expansionism mindset of those who days for a more civilized approach.