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The Senate apppears to be moving in the same direction as the law is being abused to justify wars and actions unrelated to 9/11.
So that puts us back to the War Powers Act, which gives a president authorization to do anything he can get into and get out of in 90 days without Congressional approval.
The latest doubts about the April 4 incident came from legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh — published in the Sunday edition of Die Welt — who questioned whether the Syrian government carried it out. Hersh earlier had disputed U.S. government claims that the Syrian government was responsible for a sarin attack outside Damascus on Aug. 21, 2013.
Another skeptic of these U.S. government accusations is Theodore Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT. In earlier comments on the topic of allegations of Syria’s use of chemical weapons, Postol stated, “The White House took unjustified actions — and is now creating another set of reasons for more such actions. Chances of an unpredictable escalation are significant. Trump is pushing the Russians to extreme positions and he’s undermining the effort to destroy the Islamic State.”
Theodore Postol had earlier posted an analysis of the crater debunking the claim that it was created by a bomb dropped from a Syrian jet. He goes into a summary of his conclusions in the above interview.
The US now deems working with the Free Syrian Army a terrorist activity despite the fact that the group was one to which the US was providing training and supplying arms.
The US Secretary of State has reportedly told the United Nations Secretary General that he thinks the fate of Syria and its leader is now up to Russia.
A new study says that disproportionate casualty rates in PA, WI, and MI may have cost Clinton the election because of her pro-war stance
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A new study attributes Donald Trump's victory last year to communities hit hardest by military casualties and angry about being ignored. These voters, the authors suggest, saw Trump as an "opportunity to express that anger at both political parties."
The paper—written by Douglas Kriner, a political scientist at Boston University, and Francis Shen, a law professor at the University of Minnesota—provides powerful lessons about the electoral viability of principled non-intervention, a stance that Trump was able to emulate somewhat on the campaign trail but so far has been incapable of putting into practice.
The study, available at SSRN, found a "significant and meaningful relationship between a community's rate of military sacrifice and its support for Trump." The statistical model it used suggested that if Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin had suffered "even a modestly lower casualty rate," all three could have flipped to Hillary Clinton, making her the president. The study controlled for party identification, comparing Trump's performance in the communities selected to Mitt Romney's performance in 2012. It also controlled for other relevant factors, including median family income, college education, race, the percentage of a community that is rural, and even how many veterans there were.
"Even after including all of these demographic control variables, the relationship between a county's casualty rate and Trump's electoral performance remains positive and statistically significant," the paper noted. "Trump significantly outperformed Romney in counties that shouldered a disproportionate share of the war burden in Iraq and Afghanistan."
There's been a lot of things going on in Syria the 48 hours or so. Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces have made significant gains in Latakia province and the rebels (terrorists) are being forced against the Turkish border. Aleppo is all but surrounded and if it falls the rebels (terrorists) will be in a real bad place.
Turkey is getting nervous, they wanted to expand their holdings into Syria but Russia coming to Syrias aid has thrown a wrench in those plans. Saudi Arabia is boot hurt over the fact that even with 100s of millions in support for Al-Nusra and Al Qaida they still can't seem to pull this off.
Turkey has closed the border to refugees, trapping many civilians among the fighting in hopes of Russia being blamed for any casualties that may result. There are rumors of Saudi Arabia preparing to send troops into Syria and the US is trying to get involved too.
Like we need another war over there.
Russia is still laying into the terrorists and more intensely than a few weeks ago. No Russian aircraft flies alone and all are armed with air to air capability for self defense.
The usual suspects in western media are raging for a no fly zone and western intervention. Washington Post Huffington and the UK Independent. They want intervention, damn all. Including common sense.
This appears to be escalating. There is a conference going on in Germany but nothing appears to be coming out of it as yet. There could be trouble coming because there's simply too many different sides. Russia isn't backing down.
This could get nasty.
Any opinions?
Sounds like wonderful news! Syria,Iran and Russia are the ones that should be involved,defeating Saudi Arabia,US,Israel etc is wonderful because they all want nothing more than regime change and a puppet regime put in place in Syria so they can rape the natural resources of Syria without anyone stopping them.
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Sounds like wonderful news! Syria,Iran and Russia are the ones that should be involved,defeating Saudi Arabia,US,Israel etc is wonderful because they all want nothing more than regime change and a puppet regime put in place in Syria so they can rape the natural resources of Syria without anyone stopping them.
Syria? Natural resources? If they were there they would have been developed under the pre-2011 relative stability. Why is defeating our own country and its allies a good idea?
Over the last two nights, something fascinating has broken out on the Tucker Carlson show: A genuine, and exceedingly bitter, debate between conservatives on foreign policy. On Tuesday, Carlson told retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters he thought the U.S. should team up with Russia to defeat ISIS. Peters responded that, “You sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938.” Carlson called that comment “grotesque” and “insane.”
Then, on Wednesday night, Carlson told the Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, and former Mitt Romney adviser, Max Boot, that he opposed overthrowing Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and didn’t see Russia as a serious threat. Boot responded by accusing him of being a “cheerleader” for Moscow and Tehran. Carlson called that comment “grotesque” too. And declared, “This is why nobody takes you seriously.”
In his vicious and ad hominem way, Carlson is doing something extraordinary: He’s challenging the Republican Party’s hawkish orthodoxy in ways anti-war progressives have been begging cable hosts to do for years. For more than a decade, liberals have rightly grumbled that hawks can go on television espousing new wars without being held to account for the last ones. Not on Carlson’s show. When Peters called him an apologist for Vladimir Putin, Carlson replied, “I would hate to go back and read your columns assuring America that taking out Saddam Hussein will make the region calmer, more peaceful, and America safer.” When Boot did the same, Carlson responded that Boot had been so “consistently wrong in the most flagrant and flamboyant way for over a decade” in his support for wars in the Middle East that “maybe you should choose another profession, selling insurance, house painting, something you’re good at.”
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