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205 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Erdogan Seeks More Pow... · 0 replies · +3 points
206 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Poll: Record Number of... · 0 replies · +3 points
Heard somewhere that "In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself." Who 'wins,' you reckon?
Don't suppose any of those polled also thought that drugs are winning? Anyway, I highly recommend replacing the Global War on Fear-Itself with the Intergalactic War on Angst. Surely the warlike-man could 'win' that one.
206 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Pentagon Seeks \'New N... · 0 replies · +1 points
...e.g. I'll only ever use the word 'liberate' when it's clear I mean stole or even killed...but the last time I did that here, for whatever reason, I then hear 'we liberated' Grenada on the radio---in a sorta defending-the-honor of-the-operation kinda way... Someone with a much bigger soapbox than I'll ever have might be justified in reading into sequences like that...
206 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Locals: Turkey's Crack... · 0 replies · 0 points
207 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Think Tank: Most Syria... · 0 replies · +2 points
208 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - In Pentagon Briefing, ... · 0 replies · +1 points
208 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Assad: Won't Talk to A... · 0 replies · +3 points
...wouldn't say the current Syrian gov't put the kibosh on anything. Others have presumed to pick it's negotiating partners, and many of those others have a history of destroying countries ostensibly to unseat governments (most recently in a pattern apparently predicted by Yinon/Wesley Clark). They're not worth the time, much less who they'd back. They themselves couldn't be fixed until enough people are willing to be killed or worse rather than accommodate them.
208 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - US: Airstrikes Killed ... · 0 replies · +2 points
Read Robert Parry saying Putin just shamed Obama into hitting the Turks' (NATO's) illicit ISIS oil supply... ...fair enough... but ...not hearing anywhere that Putin just, unfortunately, helped legitimate the GWoT.
209 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - House Votes to Restric... · 0 replies · +3 points
209 weeks ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Pentagon: Trump's Call... · 2 replies · +4 points
(...though I'm not following Trump so well that I understand if that's so routine...).